Jack,
Modern scientists (from the mid 18th c to the present) do not make a claim that
any well established principle is absolutely true. Any scientist who claimed
that anything is a priori certain would immediately loose all credibility.
The only thing scientists claim is that all the so-calle
Gary R., LIst:
Again, only the second and third trichotomies classify signs according to
the nature of their *relations*. The first--whether
qualisign/sinsign/legisign (1903) or tone/token/type (1906-8)--is according
to the nature of the sign *itself*. The second--icon/index/symbol in every
taxono
As Kant himself said, Hume's critique of causality awakened him from his
"dogmatic slumber" and inspired his desire to establish an "a priori"
foundation for causality. That was Kan't fundamental error. The progress of
science for the past two centuries provides overwhelming evidence for (a) th
