Hi John,
I agree with your conclusion of the paper (although I did not read the
body). I was objecting to this portion of your post: "There are no magic
rules for finding the truth (or “anything goes” as Feyerabend would say in
his typically provocative manner)."
I think although unsound, and wi
I am not at all clear what you are getting at here, Jerry. I thought Jon
Awbrey’s recent remarks 1 and 2 were spot on.
On his reference to 3, creativity, I would follow the approach I give for
creativity in language, but restricted to the formation of hypotheses, in
* Informal Pragmatics an
Wrt Jerry C's contribution...
Why *eros* and not *epithumia*? Wherefore relevance relation?
"My point is not that Strauss is wrong, but that he owes us an account of
how the Socratic path between Scylla and Charybdis can be maintained
without shipwreck." ~ Stanley Rosen.
The question really amo
John, Clark, List:
> On Mar 9, 2016, at 1:59 AM, John Collier wrote:
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> Another point that is often overlooked in discussions of inference to the
> best explanation, which I agree is not the same as abduction, though I think
> abduction is more restrictive than just inference
Recently:
CG:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/18475
JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/18476
JC:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/18483
JR:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/18484
List,
As far a
Hi all,
It seems paradoxical to me that a Peircean doesn't believe in Peirce's
method to inferencing truth under uncertainty.
There must be a way out of this dilemma...one, two, three...CP 5.189.
Best,
Jerry R
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 1:59 AM, John Collier wrote:
> List,
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> Another point t
List,
Another point that is often overlooked in discussions of inference to the best
explanation, which I agree is not the same as abduction, though I think
abduction is more restrictive than just inference to any hypothesis from which
the evidence might be inferred, is that the best explanatio