SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT:
THE WAY OF INQUIRY: A MINICONFERENCE ON PHILOSOPHICAL METHODOLOGY: 3
DECEMBER 2016
Charles Peirce famously recommended that the words “Do not block the way of
inquiry” be inscribed “upon every wall of the city of philosophy”. But what
does this instruction mean in practice? Th
> On Aug 25, 2016, at 8:33 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt
> wrote:
>
> JS: As for the Final Interpretant, "I confess [with Peirce] that my own
> conception of this interpretant is not yet quite free from mist" (CP 4.536,
> 1906); but I am starting to think of it as perhaps the habit of feeling,
> act
Clark, list:
My view of 'virtual' is to understand it using the words 'as if', and the
concept of 'effect'.
So, a machine that has, eg, 'ten horsepowers' has, in its effects, the virtual
force of ten horses. This force is not potentiality; there is no potential for
the force to emerge as horse
Jon,
I think the Peirce passage you quote here (CP 1.213), with its metaphor of the
court and the sheriff, does a pretty good job of explaining “efficiency” by
contrasting efficient and final causes, and by pointing out that neither of
them can cause anything, or have any significance, excep
Clark, List:
CG: I just meant that the final interpretant from Peirce’s cosmology is
stability in thirdness for the entire universe. My sense is this is too
strong a claim, even given his notion of continuity and that there may be
many unstable aspects. But to Peirce the endpoint of the universe
