Dear Ben Udell:
I really didn't intend to send only to you, but I guess I didn't notice
that merely hitting reply resulted in that. It is my hope that my email and
your reply will now appear on the list, and we can see if others find them
of interest...
Back to the subject. What I am suggesting
Stephen -
I did not raise the wildebeest example to discuss "knowing how to be" -- you
did on Oct. 9 at 4:28 AM. You can find it by scrolling down in this string.
You used it as evidence for your theory. ("Regarding the passing of the
elderly wildebeest, Darwinian natural selection is SECONDA
Hi, Jeff,
That's a pertinent passage and the 'passive' surprise seems at least
similar to what I was discussing. What seems not to fit quite clearly is
Peirce's example of a total solar eclipse that one had neither expected
to occur nor expected not to occur, as if total solar eclipses were
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