Gary F, Jon S, List,
In order to ground the suggestions I made in a text, consider what Peirce says
in MS 518 about the sheet of assertion. This manuscript is part of a larger
project to explain the connections between the first principles of logical
algebra and the EG.
§1. As the fundamenta
Kant is hard to pin down on these issues. I agree with your assessment Jeff,
and I did order Smyth’s books that you mentioned (thanks!). But here is a bit
of what I say of Kant in DMM:
"Apart from Kant's ontological commitments, I find this an appealing
perspective. In fact it is easy to see th
John, Dan, List,
In holding that our presentation of space as a whole has an a priori in
character, I do not believe that Kant was arguing in the first Critique that we
have a biological instinct to see things in a Euclidean way. Again, I believe
that Smyth's Forms of Intuition: an Historical
John,
Great stuff.
There is a huge amount of information that Kant was wrong about these things.
Someone today mentioned Michael Polyani’s work on personal knowledge/tacit
knowledge. And, at the risk of being a bore, there is my book, Dark Matter of
the Mind:
https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Matt
Nothing material is innate at least here. If we go with what wisdom and the
experience of many validate we are spirits/souls that continue occupying a
material frame. THat frame is amazing and wonderful but terminal. I am sure
Peirce would have shrunk form arguing for an afterlife that could be
des
This morning, I remembered some case studies of people who were
blind from early childhood and later recovered their sight.
Those studies cast doubt on Kant's claim that people have a
complete innate theory of space and time. The brain may have
innate structure that facilitates learning about sp
Jeff, Jon,
Thanks for your comments, all helpful! Though I may need more time to study
yours, Jeff, and see how it relates to phaneroscopy.
I recall that Michael Polanyi wrote a book on The Tacit Dimension. Maybe that’s
a good name for what the blank sheet of assertion represents.
Gary f.
