Re: [PEIRCE-L] nominalism

2017-01-26 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
> On Jan 24, 2017, at 3:18 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt > wrote: > > Keep in mind that for Peirce, "habit" is a much broader term than how we > typically use it in ordinary conversation. This is an important observation. In mathematical /systems science terminology of the

[PEIRCE-L] The Peirce Discussion List

2017-01-26 Thread Edwina Taborsky
Gary, list I think that's a reasonable remedy - to suggest that readers simply delete those posts in which they are not interested. I admit to doing that quite often. My interests are in using Peirce within the analysis of biological information processes and biological morphology - and - in

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Universal/General/Continuous and Particular//Singular/Individual

2017-01-26 Thread Gary Richmond
Stephen, John, List, I know the frustration that one can occasionally feel in reading forum messages and segments of thread exchanges which, for example, seem to be rehearsing the same material, covering the same--or similar--territory, especially on a topic in which one has little or no

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Universal/General/Continuous and Particular//Singular/Individual

2017-01-26 Thread Jerry Rhee
Dear list: “*Now ‘prior’ and ‘better known’ are ambiguous terms, for there is a difference between what is prior and better known in the order of being and what is prior and better known to man. I mean that objects nearer to sense are prior and better known to man; objects without qualification

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Universal/General/Continuous & Particular/Singular/Individual

2017-01-26 Thread Jon Awbrey
So I'm guessing “ping” is the individual and “pong” is the universal — or is that also up for dispute? But I remember this quandary from quandary mechanics ... https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2014/08/02/%e2%98%af-quantum-mechanics-%e2%98%af/ Cheers, Jon On 1/25/2017 10:28 PM, Stephen C. Rose

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Universal/General/Continuous and Particular//Singular/Individual

2017-01-26 Thread Stephen C. Rose
Interesting. Just time for a daily walk! But to me I would be interested in a discussion of binary versus triadic thinking and in some reflection on the points at which ethics and aesthetics fit into a triadic pattern of thinking. I am not sure what a modal realist is but I think the

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Universal/General/Continuous and Particular//Singular/Individual

2017-01-26 Thread Clark Goble
> On Jan 25, 2017, at 8:28 PM, Stephen C. Rose wrote: > > Peirce was more than a pingpong ball in a long and repetitive exegetical > battle involving I suppose the core group of this forum. But I have had > enough. I simply will not open mail from the correspondents

Re: [PEIRCE-L] signs, correlates, and triadic relations - The union of the units unifies the unity

2017-01-26 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
List, Franklin, Frederik: The OUP book, The Structure of Objects by Kathrin Koslicki (2008) addresses some of the philosophy that appears to be difficult to understand. More particularly, it illuminates the triad, sinsign, index and dicisign in relation to parts of the whole, the illation