Re: [PEIRCE-L] Possibility and actuality: What does a variable refer to?

2018-08-27 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
John, Kirsti, List (This is a technical post wrt to the role of possibility and actuality in the exact abductive logic of organic mathematics.) I would just add an extremely important fact about the relationship between possibility and actuality in the chemical sciences. In the modern era, the

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Possibility and actuality: What does a variable refer to?

2018-08-27 Thread John F Sowa
Janos and Kirsti, I have been tied up with some deadlines, which prevented me from responding to the many issues in these threads. I hope to catch up later this week. But your recent notes raise two important issues. Kirsti I wonder why science(s) seems to be left out of the context in the

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Possibility and actuality: What does a variable refer to?

2018-08-27 Thread Janos Sarbo
John S., List You wrote:     "Logic allows a variable x in ∃x to refer to refer to anything mathematical.  That implies that any x that refers to anything     in pure mathematics can be said to "exist" in some sense. " Predicate logic allows you to write ∃x.P(x) for variable x and predicate