And as gifted as he was, Peirce was also human. It pays to bear that in mind.
>"That means that no hypothesis should be ruled out in advance."
I agree. But multiverse theory has been around for a while. It has been
incorporated into the narrative and provided the basis for testing conjectures
On 9/28/2017 7:18 AM, Stephen Jarosek wrote:
Multiverse theory is a symptom of intellectual desperation…
a descent into debating the number of angels on the head of a pin.
Both of those lines are contrary to anything Peirce would have
said or approved.
Peirce's First Rule of Reason: "Do not
Jon AS and Jeff BD,
[JFS] I would say that every diagram is an image ...
[JAS] Peirce explicitly said otherwise in CP 2.277,
dividing hypoicons into images, diagrams, and metaphors.
But 'hypoicon' is a very technical term.
JBD
Peirce seems to use the term "image" in at least two senses...
John S, Jon S, List,
Peirce seems to use the term "image" in at least two senses.
First he uses the term in the common way to talk about what one sees when one
opens one's eyes and perceives what is before you--or when a person closes her
eyes and imagines what she hopes to see in the
John S., List:
JFS: I would say that every diagram is an image ...
Peirce explicitly said otherwise in CP 2.277, dividing hypoicons into
images, diagrams, and metaphors.
JFS: But there has never been a sharp distinction between science and
engineering.
Maybe not in fact, but certainly in
On 9/27/2017 5:07 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt wrote:
A diagram, in Peirce's terminology, is not an image; it is an icon,
with indexical and symbolic elements, that embodies the significant
relations among the parts of its object. An algebraic equation is
a diagram just as much as a geometric figure.
List:
One deep issue regarding CSP’s works is the relevance of his writings to
today’s world and the decaying intellectual climate that is often exemplified
in today’s writings in the philosophical and mathematical communities.
At least one group of logicians is facing these issues head-on, as
Very interesting and filled with implications. For example, if he makes
normative sciences a hierarchy in which aesthetics at the top that is no
different to me than having a triad which leads to action understood to be
Aesthetics informed by Ethics and stimulated by Reality which is the sign.
The
Following up on the comments by Gary R, Stephen, Jon, and (earlier) Tom
Gollier,
What strikes me first about Peirce's description of "the all-familiar
phenomena of self-control" is that his generic "man" seems to behave more
rationally than most people actually do. But we have to bear in mind
