[PEIRCE-L] Phaneroscopy and the classification of the sciences

2021-10-17 Thread sowa @bestweb.net
Dear Bernard, Robert, List, I have more to say about the policies for Peirce list, but first I'd like to comment on this topic. Bernard: I think that the content and purpose of Phaneroscopy needs to be cleared up independently of the question of

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct, intuition and semiosis

2021-10-17 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Edwina, List: I am not the one claiming to be defining and applying "*THE* Peircean analytic framework." As spelled out in his texts, there is much more to it than "using the three categories in both their genuine and degenerate modes" and/or "using the triadic semiosic process to show both necess

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct, intuition and semiosis

2021-10-17 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }JAS, list Then the question I ask is - what is the definition of THE Peircean analytic framework? That is, what if someone is examining the semiosic processes of a wetlands or a meadow, and examining the

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct, intuition and semiosis

2021-10-17 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Edwina, List: ET: I think it's a sidestep red herring to claim that Gary F did not describe the *person *of Robert Marty as 'post-Peircean' but was referring to Marty's thoughts and analysis. Like I already said, I personally find such labels counterproductive and try to avoid them since they te

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct, intuition and semiosis

2021-10-17 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Gary F., Robert, List: GF: I happen to think that Peirce’s philosophy, especially his phenomenology and the semiotics which is quite explicitly based on it, is highly relevant to the challenges of living in our time — relevant just as it is, in the writings that Peirce left us. ... I think Peirce’

[PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Classifications of the Sciences (was Should we start a new email list)

2021-10-17 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Robert, List: Notice Peirce's significant shift in thinking already *within *R 1345. Empirics and pragmatics have disappeared, with philosophy now coming right after mathematics, and ethics as "the philosophy of action" falling within it--inserted between "the philosophical trivium"("speculative g

[PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Classifications of the Sciences (was Should we start a new email list)

2021-10-17 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Robert, Bernard, List: RM: this classification of sciences is the simplest he [Peirce] provided ... but the most detailed ones are consistent with this matrix. It is indeed his simplest, but there is a *very* *fundamental *difference from his more detailed ones. This early (mid-1890s) classifica

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Theme One • A Program Of Inquiry

2021-10-17 Thread Jon Awbrey
Cf: Theme One Program • Motivation 2 https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2018/05/17/theme-one-program-motivation-2/ All, A side-effect of working on the Theme One program over the course of a decade was the measure of insight it gave me into the reasons why empiricists and rationalists have so much t

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct, intuition and semiosis

2021-10-17 Thread Jerry Rhee
Dear robert, list, You said, however, he (Gary F) is in a position of advantage over Peirce-L What are you talking about? The history of this list is detailed on the Arisbe site and Gary R also gave his version as recently as the other day: I am in the process of exploring the future direc

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct, intuition and semiosis

2021-10-17 Thread robert marty
List, Finally everything becomes clearer and I understand better why Gary F sees me as a Post-Peircean ... it is because he is basically himself an Ante-Peircean who reduces Peirce to an Idioscopy as it could exist before him, without Cenoscopy and of course without Mathematics . ... as I simply cl

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Should we start a new email list?

2021-10-17 Thread Bernard Morand
Le 17/10/2021 à 16:11, Robert Marty a écrit : Cher Bernard, vous écrivez : "I think that the content and purpose of Phaneroscopy needs to be cleared up independently of the question of classification of sciences. On the contrary what has been suggested is to find a place for an unknown thing i

[PEIRCE-L] Instinct, intuition and semiosis

2021-10-17 Thread gnox
Jack, I appreciate your point that “we cannot have an epistemology without some form of "anthropology".” If I may extend the idea a little, we cannot hope to understand human nature, or why humans think and act the way we do, unless we can draw on insights emerging from biology, anthropology, so

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Should we start a new email list?

2021-10-17 Thread Robert Marty
Cher Bernard, vous écrivez : "I think that the content and purpose of Phaneroscopy needs to be cleared up independently of the question of classification of sciences. On the contrary what has been suggested is to find a place for an unknown thing into a pretty trichotomy a priori derived from the l

Re: [PEIRCE-L] [EXTERNAL] Re: Should we start a new email list (was Peirce's contributions to the 21st c

2021-10-17 Thread Robert Marty
Dear Jack, The hierarchy is in your mind, not in mine because the identification of forms does not imply a hierarchy of forms... consider mathematics as a repository of forms some of which can be embodied in empirics... for example a Poset (partially ordered set) can be embodied in a phaneron becom

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Theme One • A Program Of Inquiry

2021-10-17 Thread Jon Awbrey
Cf: Theme One Program • Motivation 1 https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2018/05/15/theme-one-program-motivation-1/ All, The main idea behind the Theme One program is the efficient use of graph-theoretic data structures for the tasks of “learning” and “reasoning”. I am thinking of learning in the se

Re: [PEIRCE-L] [EXTERNAL] Re: Should we start a new email list (was Peirce's contributions to the 21st c

2021-10-17 Thread JACK ROBERT KELLY CODY
Dear Robert, My point is definitely anthropological, but we cannot have an epistemology without some form of "anthropology" (Comte was a sociological philosopher after all). I don't know how to answer your questions, though you do raise some interesting points. If mathematics is defined as "the

Re: [PEIRCE-L] [EXTERNAL] Re: Should we start a new email list (was Peirce's contributions to the 21st c

2021-10-17 Thread robert marty
Dear Jack, Your point is now anthropological and I do not reject it ... my preoccupation is strictly epistemological (remember that we are here in the Sciences of Discovery): what are the practical consequences of this identification of forms for knowledge? Here is another version of the classifica

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Should we start a new email list?

2021-10-17 Thread Bernard Morand
John, List, Le 16/10/2021 à 23:58, sowa @bestweb.net a écrit : I agree with ET.  Most of the complaints seem to be generated by three people (GF, GR, and JAS) who object to people who introduce topics for which they have no canned answer. An example is my note about phaneroscopy as a science

Re: [PEIRCE-L] [EXTERNAL] Re: Should we start a new email list (was Peirce's contributions to the 21st c

2021-10-17 Thread JACK ROBERT KELLY CODY
Robert, List, I think that Peirce's classification, quoted in your post below, is absolutely accurate (and I'm firmly within the sociological axis). I would say, though, that just as Peirce considered people to be practicing phaneroscopy (artists and so on) even when they were unaware of it, it

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Should we start a new email list (was Peirce's contributions to the 21st c

2021-10-17 Thread robert marty
Dear Margaretha, Your conception of attitude is in interpersonal relations, very psychological. But it is not about that... it is about epistemology ... Here is for example a very vertical "*epistemological attitude*" of Peirce : *""Every systematic philosopher must provide himself a classificati