Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Lowell lecture 1.2

2017-09-26 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }The 'standard of consistency' is Thirdness, which answers to the facts rather than fictions of objective reality and the Final Interpretant among the 'community of scholars'. This view of Peirce therefore denies any power

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Lowell lecture 1.2

2017-09-26 Thread gnox
List, As Edwina pointed out, the argument which Peirce declares to be “a miserable fallacy” bears a close resemblance to what we now call moral or ethical “relativism” (I prefer to avoid the term “postmodern” though). Peirce spells out the analogy between the “defendant” argument and the “falla

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Lowell lecture 1.2

2017-09-26 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }List: Additionally, as Peirce noted, in 'Some Consequences of Four Incapacities' [1868], "to make single individuals absolute judges of truth is most pernicious" [5.265.2]. This is a basic rejection of C

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Interpretations of the Meaning of Pragmatisism (edited)

2017-09-26 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
List, Helmut: I am bit puzzled by your message. What is the definition of “emanations” that you are thinking of? Do you consider emanations necessarily spatial? While I can easily imagine a “set” of emanations, such a set would not be emanations; the physicality of the emanations can not be re