Re: [PEIRCE-L] Existential Graphs in 1911

2021-01-23 Thread John F. Sowa
Jon AS, List, The *opinion* that the EG version of June 1911 is Peirce's best is Peirce's own, as he stated in December, after six months of further consideration.  The fact that he stated it in a lengthy letter to a member of Lady Welby's significs group is further evidence of its importance.

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Existential Graphs in 1911

2021-01-23 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
John, List, All: JFS: Again, you have not cited any statements by Peirce after June 1911. Therefore, nothing in your note contradicts the evidence that the 1911 version of EGs is Peirce's best and last available version. That it is his *last *version is a fact, as far as we know. That it is his

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Existential Graphs in 1911

2021-01-23 Thread John F. Sowa
Jon, List, Again, you have not cited any statements by Peirce after June 1911.  Therefore, nothing in your note contradicts the evidence that the 1911 version of EGs is Peirce's best and last available version. Furthermore, Peirce's letters of Sept. and Dec. 1911 explicitly reject the version

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Nominalism vs. Realism

2021-01-23 Thread Daniel L. Everett
Thanks, Jon. Any comments would be welcome. I do like Katz’s work. The title of the book I am doing for OUP (I had to put off the bio of Peirce until libraries open back up) is Peircean Linguistics: A Chapter in the History of Realist Thought. Hence my more than passing interest in linguistic

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Nominalism vs. Realism

2021-01-23 Thread Jon Awbrey
Thanks, Dan, That brings me a twinge of pleasant nostalgia, but there a few fresh things I could say about it all from my current perspective when I next get a chance. Very generally speaking, however, so much of current philosophical thought, in or out of the Peirce realm, is so deeply

[PEIRCE-L] Re: C.S. Peirce, Spencer Brown, & Me

2021-01-23 Thread Jon Awbrey
Cf: Charles Sanders Peirce, George Spencer Brown, and Me • 4 https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2017/08/06/charles-sanders-peirce-george-spencer-brown-and-me-4/ All, Two things that had a big impact on my studies of Peirce and Spencer Brown over the years were my parallel studies in mathematics and