Dear gary, list,
If what Gary adds of John about Putnam is true,
“I like to quote a comment that Hilary Putnam made about Aristotle:
"Whenever I become clearer about a subject, I find that Aristotle has also
become clearer."
I would make that same comment about Peirce.”
Then is it
I concede your understanding of my drift but I would wonder, then, what
Peirce understands by continuity and for that matter how he would apply the
pragmatic maxim to ordinary decision making and understanding. The
allure of triadic to me is precisely its application to what seems to me to
be
I do not understand how these designations have any fixed or even useful
purpose apart from whatever the First may be. It seems to me that the First
determines what follows just as the sum of First and Second impacts and is
changed by the Third. The designation of three aspects of the third seems
Continuing from Lowell Lecture 3.10,
https://fromthepage.com/jeffdown1/c-s-peirce-manuscripts/ms-464-465-1903-low
ell-lecture-iii-3rd-draught/display/13928 :
[CP 1.533] To express the Firstness of Thirdness, the peculiar flavor or
color of mediation, we have no really good word. Mentality
John Sowa wrote,
“I like to quote a comment that Hilary Putnam made about Aristotle: "Whenever
I become clearer about a subject, I find that Aristotle has also become
clearer."
I would make that same comment about Peirce.”
Amen to that! And if I may clarify more minutely:
Becoming
On 1/1/2018 7:07 AM, Auke van Breemen wrote:
I am quite sure Peirce felt rationally necessitated to be of
the opinion that it is not allowed to favor his suggestions
after they pop up only on the basis that they are written by him.
I agree. But Peirce would also insist that readers should
