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

2021-10-20 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Edwina, List: ET: ... with regard to the triadic sign, the hylomorphic monism of matter-mind, and cosmology and the emergence of the universe. I’ve provided enough supportive quotations previously to support my interpretations and won’t repeat them. My point is that there is no exact quotation

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

2021-10-19 Thread Edwina Taborsky
JAS, list I continue to disagree with your interpretations of Peirce- with regard to the triadic sign, the hylomorphic monism of matter-mind, and cosmology and the emergence of the universe. I’ve provided enough supportive quotations previously to support my interpretations and won’t repeat

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

2021-10-19 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Edwina, List: As I have already explained twice before in this thread, no one can ever be absolutely certain that a particular understanding of Peirce's writings ( *dynamical* interpretant) matches their final interpretant--the *correct *reading, how the texts *necessarily would be* understood

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

2021-10-18 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }JAS, list What does 'obvious discrepancies' mean??? The use of different terms? If someone is using the triadic sign, as, eg, Hoffmeyer did, in analyzing what is going on within the 'habits of

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

2021-10-18 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }JAS But how can YOU be sure that YOUR reading of Peirce is correct? Never mind the Final Interpretant, which isn't the issue here. I'm talking about the Immediate and Dynamic Interpretants - and how can you be

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

2021-10-18 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Edwina, List: It has nothing to do with whether Peirce ever used his own analytic framework in a certain way. My basic question is, how do we ascertain whether a particular analytic framework that someone is using to examine the actual world is really *THE* Peircean analytic framework--i.e.,

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

2021-10-18 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Edwina, List: As I already explained below, I can never be absolutely certain that my (or anyone else's) understanding of Peirce's writings matches their *final *interpretant, but I can ascertain when someone else's expressed understanding of them is inconsistent with their *immediate*

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

2021-10-18 Thread Edwina Taborsky
JAS, list Your original reply focused, yet again, on The Text, and seemed to insist on a focus only on text-to-text outlines, ie, where someone 'explains' to us what Peirce 'really meant' in his texts. But I'd still appreciate your thoughts on my basic question -

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

2021-10-18 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }JAS, list I'd disagree; you do claim to be defining The Peircean analytic framework. Otherwise, how could you justify your comments criticizing others? You don't apply it, admittedly, for you have openly said

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

2021-10-18 Thread gnox
apologize to the list for that. Also for not saying anything substantive about the subject line in this post. Gary f. From: peirce-l-requ...@list.iupui.edu On Behalf Of Jon Alan Schmidt Sent: 17-Oct-21 19:48 To: Peirce-L Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct, intuition and semiosis Edwina

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

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

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

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

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

[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,

Fwd: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-21 Thread Sungchul Ji
of the 19th century: BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION AS SEMIOSIS (072115-1) All the best. Sung -- Forwarded message -- From: Sungchul Ji s...@rci.rutgers.edu Date: Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 1:04 PM Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion To: Stephen Jarosek sjaro

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-21 Thread Sungchul Ji
is not workable. sj *From:* sji.confor...@gmail.com [mailto:sji.confor...@gmail.com] *On Behalf Of *Sungchul Ji *Sent:* Monday, 20 July 2015 4:35 PM *To:* PEIRCE-L *Subject:* Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion Stephen, Edwina, lists, That is, if people are going to go along

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-21 Thread Stephen Jarosek
to “language.” It’s at the level of the DNA molecule that my thinking diverges. From: Stephen Jarosek [mailto:sjaro...@iinet.net.au] Sent: Tuesday, 21 July 2015 11:13 PM To: 'Sungchul Ji' Cc: 'PEIRCE-L' Subject: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion Sung, I understand where you are coming from

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-21 Thread Stephen Jarosek
that are entangled with it by virtue of the manner of DNA replication. sj From: sji.confor...@gmail.com [mailto:sji.confor...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Sungchul Ji Sent: Tuesday, 21 July 2015 7:05 PM To: Stephen Jarosek Cc: PEIRCE-L Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion Stephen J, lists

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-21 Thread Sungchul Ji
at the level of the DNA molecule that my thinking diverges. *From:* Stephen Jarosek [mailto:sjaro...@iinet.net.au] *Sent:* Tuesday, 21 July 2015 11:13 PM *To:* 'Sungchul Ji' *Cc:* 'PEIRCE-L' *Subject:* RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion Sung, I understand where you are coming from... I

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-21 Thread Stephen Jarosek
@list.iupui.edu; biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion Stephen - I'm not sure of the point of your post. Are you trying to say that Peirce's view of the origin of life and its evolution/adaptation was pure Darwinism? If so, this is incorrect. His analysis of The Origin

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-20 Thread John Collier
[mailto:sjaro...@iinet.net.au] Sent: July 20, 2015 11:34 AM To: 'Edwina Taborsky'; 'Thomas'; 'Stephen C. Rose' Cc: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu; biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee Subject: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion List, Many of us seem to be persisting with the narrative that instincts are programmed

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-20 Thread Ozzie
July 2015 2:56 AM To: Thomas; Stephen C. Rose Cc: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion Tom - see my replies below: - Original Message - From: Thomas To: Stephen C. Rose Cc: Edwina Taborsky ; peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2015 8:02 PM

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-20 Thread Stephen C. Rose
*To:* Thomas; Stephen C. Rose *Cc:* peirce-l@list.iupui.edu *Subject:* Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion Tom - see my replies below: - Original Message - *From:* Thomas ozzie...@gmail.com *To:* Stephen C. Rose stever...@gmail.com *Cc:* Edwina Taborsky tabor...@primus.ca ; peirce

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-20 Thread Stephen Jarosek
; biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion Stephen - I believe Peirce argued that pragmatism is incorporated into genes during evolution. If so, then instincts are purposeful/efficient without intervention by others or instruction on how to be. STEPHEN

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-20 Thread Edwina Taborsky
: Stephen Jarosek To: 'Edwina Taborsky' ; 'Thomas' ; 'Stephen C. Rose' Cc: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu ; biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee Sent: Monday, July 20, 2015 5:33 AM Subject: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion List, Many of us seem to be persisting with the narrative that instincts

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-20 Thread Sungchul Ji
*From:* Edwina Taborsky [mailto:tabor...@primus.ca] *Sent:* Monday, 20 July 2015 3:35 PM *To:* Stephen Jarosek; 'Ozzie' *Cc:* 'Stephen C. Rose'; peirce-l@list.iupui.edu; biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee *Subject:* Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion Stephen- I continue with problems with your

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-20 Thread Stephen Jarosek
the computers CPU? What technology is it all drawing on? sj From: Edwina Taborsky [mailto:tabor...@primus.ca] Sent: Monday, 20 July 2015 4:18 PM To: Stephen Jarosek; 'Ozzie' Cc: 'Stephen C. Rose'; peirce-l@list.iupui.edu; biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-20 Thread Edwina Taborsky
@list.iupui.edu ; biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee Sent: Monday, July 20, 2015 9:05 AM Subject: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion TOM: “I believe Peirce argued that pragmatism is incorporated into genes during evolution. If so, then instincts are purposeful/efficient without intervention

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-20 Thread Stephen Jarosek
'; 'Stephen C. Rose' Cc: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu; biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion Stephen - as you note, I think we are reaching the stage where our disagreements are beyond discussion. 1) Your response to how an organism knows how to 'define the things

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-20 Thread Edwina Taborsky
; biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee Sent: Monday, July 20, 2015 10:06 AM Subject: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion Edwina, on most of the points you raise, I can see where we are going to be going around in circles. So I’ll just respond to those couple of points where we might stand a better chance

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-20 Thread Stephen Jarosek
...@gmail.com [mailto:sji.confor...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Sungchul Ji Sent: Monday, 20 July 2015 4:35 PM To: PEIRCE-L Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion Stephen, Edwina, lists, That is, if people are going to go along with the info-tech narrative that describes genes and DNA

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-20 Thread Edwina Taborsky
' ; peirce-l@list.iupui.edu ; biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee Sent: Monday, July 20, 2015 10:36 AM Subject: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion There are two conflicting metaphors concerning the questions you raise. You seem to have a preference for the info-tech (computer) metaphor. The second

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-20 Thread Edwina Taborsky
: Stephen Jarosek To: 'Edwina Taborsky' ; 'Ozzie' Cc: 'Stephen C. Rose' ; peirce-l@list.iupui.edu ; biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee Sent: Monday, July 20, 2015 12:28 PM Subject: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion EDWINA: “I don't see anything wrong with the computer or semiosic model

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-20 Thread Ozzie
not address the concept I was interested in knowing Peirce’s views about. John From: Thomas [mailto:ozzie...@gmail.com] Sent: July 20, 2015 2:03 AM To: Stephen C. Rose Cc: Edwina Taborsky; peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion Stephen, Edwina, List

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-20 Thread Ozzie
the entropic forces of disunity. sj From: Ozzie [mailto:ozzie...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 20 July 2015 1:22 PM To: Stephen Jarosek Cc: Edwina Taborsky; Stephen C. Rose; peirce-l@list.iupui.edu; biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion Stephen - I believe

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-20 Thread Stephen Jarosek
, 20 July 2015 5:07 PM To: Stephen Jarosek; 'Ozzie' Cc: 'Stephen C. Rose'; peirce-l@list.iupui.edu; biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion 1) I don't accept the comparison between a biological system which must store common knowledge and a colony of people which

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-20 Thread Stephen Jarosek
'; peirce-l@list.iupui.edu; biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion 1) Stephen - Howard Bloom's analysis of the knowledge function within groups, and his focus on the social group as the agential system - is a completely different issue than the analysis of Sign

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-20 Thread Stephen Jarosek
@list.iupui.edu; biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion Stephen ~ You remarked: the idea of, say, a watch or a computer materializing all by itself in nature, even within an infinite universe, has to contend against enormous odds that render its unlikelihood

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-19 Thread Edwina Taborsky
: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 11:53 AM Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion Ben, list - Thanks for your interesting comments. I will spend more time thinking about them later today. Let me briefly address one sentence from your comments: I'd say

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-19 Thread Stephen C. Rose
. Edwina - Original Message - *From:* Ozzie ozzie...@gmail.com *To:* Benjamin Udell bud...@nyc.rr.com *Cc:* peirce-l@list.iupui.edu *Sent:* Friday, July 17, 2015 11:53 AM *Subject:* Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion Ben, list - Thanks for your interesting comments. I will spend

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-19 Thread Edwina Taborsky
Tom - see my replies below: - Original Message - From: Thomas To: Stephen C. Rose Cc: Edwina Taborsky ; peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2015 8:02 PM Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion Stephen, Edwina, List ~ I agree that instinct leads

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-19 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion Stephen, Edwina, List ~ I agree that instinct leads to physical activity (though sometimes inside the body where it can't be seen). But it is triggered by environmental changes. That is the standard definition of instinct. It is not so much

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-19 Thread John Collier
@list.iupui.edu Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion Stephen, Edwina, List ~ I agree that instinct leads to physical activity (though sometimes inside the body where it can't be seen). But it is triggered by environmental changes. That is the standard definition of instinct. It is not so much

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-19 Thread Edwina Taborsky
- Original Message - From: Stephen C. Rose To: Ozzie Cc: Edwina Taborsky ; peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2015 4:19 PM Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion I wonder what controls instincts which I see as somewhat like inclinations which suggest

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-19 Thread Edwina Taborsky
Tom - thanks for your response; mine are below. - Original Message - From: Ozzie To: Edwina Taborsky Cc: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2015 4:05 PM Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion Edwina ~ My notes on habit and evolution are more wide

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-19 Thread Ozzie
a tougher beak. Edwina - Original Message - From: Ozzie To: Benjamin Udell Cc: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 11:53 AM Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion Ben, list - Thanks for your interesting comments. I will spend more time thinking

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-17 Thread Benjamin Udell
Tom, list, Thanks for the link to the dissertation. I've read the first 40 or so pages, which include an outline of the history of the philosophy and psychology of affectivity. I didn't know that words like 'faculty', 'passion', and 'affection' have been freighted with so much meaning, and

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-17 Thread Ozzie
Ben, list - Thanks for your interesting comments. I will spend more time thinking about them later today. Let me briefly address one sentence from your comments: I'd say that instincts can also be triggered _inside_ the body, e.g., by prolonged emptiness of the stomach. According to the

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-17 Thread Benjamin Udell
Tom, list, I should look terms up once in a while instead of relying on decades-old memories or employing the word as if Peirce's sense of it were current. (Incidentally, the Commens dictionary has two quotes from Peirce about instinct http://www.commens.org/dictionary/term/instinct .)

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct

2015-07-16 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
Gary: On Jul 15, 2015, at 2:21 PM, Gary Richmond wrote: Why must the sides of the ledger balance? I've been mulling this over since I read it and haven't yet been able to come to an adequate answer to your question. At the moment I'm thinking it might have something to do with Peirce's

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-16 Thread Benjamin Udell
: Ozzie [ozzie...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 9:51 AM To: Jeffrey Brian Downard Cc: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct - PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on Reply List or Reply All to REPLY ON PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct and emotion

2015-07-16 Thread Benjamin Udell
@list.iupui.edu Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct - PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on Reply List or Reply All to REPLY ON PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to peirce-L@list.iupui.edu . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L but to l...@list.iupui.edu

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct ---- Infintestimals

2015-07-16 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
List: An intervention concerning two recent posts and intertwined issues. On Jul 15, 2015, at 12:51 PM, Thomas wrote: Emotion propels a lot of activity other than logic. Usually they are considered as opposites. Their mutually reinforcing partnership when abduction occurs is the paradox

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct

2015-07-16 Thread Sungchul Ji
Jerry, I agree. I ordered the book and look forward to your forthcoming post on the topic. As we chemists (and Peirce, I am sure), the quantitative balancing of both sides of a chemical reaction is called stoichiometry, i.e., a branch of science that deals with the application of the laws of

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct

2015-07-15 Thread Jeffrey Brian Downard
Jeff Downard Associate Professor Department of Philosophy NAU (o) 523-8354 From: g...@gnusystems.ca [g...@gnusystems.ca] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 5:33 PM To: 'Peirce-L' Subject: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct Jeff, yes, that makes it more general. I asked my

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct

2015-07-15 Thread Stephen Jarosek
AM To: 'John Collier'; mig...@cegri.es; peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct List, I find the notion of instinct as a separate and distinct category of knowledge, “written down in the DNA,” as it were, problematic. There must be, imho, a way to account for instinct within

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct

2015-07-15 Thread Stephen Jarosek
distinction. sj From: John Collier [mailto:colli...@ukzn.ac.za] Sent: Wednesday, 15 July 2015 2:36 AM To: mig...@cegri.es; peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct Thanks to everyone who responded, but especially to Miguel for sending this gem. Now I just have to figure out what

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct

2015-07-15 Thread Jeffrey Brian Downard
@list.iupui.edu Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct I recall that Peirce said the act of abduction creates an emotion within the individual. It struck me at the time. I took it to mean a good feeling imprinted during infancy, when a mother (caregiver) consistently rewarded the baby-infant

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct

2015-07-15 Thread Claudio Guerri
:50:28 AM *Subject: *Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct John C., list, Here's another Peirce quote on instinct, FWIW: [§6. The Fallibility of Reasoning and the Feeling of Rationality (Minute Logic, ergo 1902 or 1903) CP 2.170.] If I may be allowed to use the word habit, without any

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct

2015-07-15 Thread Gary Richmond
, July 15, 2015 9:50:28 AM *Subject: *Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct John C., list, Here's another Peirce quote on instinct, FWIW: [§6. The Fallibility of Reasoning and the Feeling of Rationality (Minute Logic, ergo 1902 or 1903) CP 2.170.] If I may be allowed to use the word habit, without

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct

2015-07-15 Thread Thomas
From: Ozzie [ozzie...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 9:51 AM To: Jeffrey Brian Downard Cc: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct I recall that Peirce said the act of abduction creates an emotion within the individual. It struck me

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct

2015-07-15 Thread Gary Richmond
:36 AM To: Peirce-L Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct John, First, I agree with you that Miguel's snippet from A Theory of Probable Inference is a gem (esp. the important truth, that all human knowledge, up to the highest flights of science, is but the development of our inborn animal

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct

2015-07-15 Thread Gary Richmond
Claudio, list, Just a quick response to one suggestion in your post. You wrote: I think [. . . ] that instinct is some how related to secondness, to a more (so to say) 'biological' aspect, I would agree that instinct must involve the 'biological'. But I'm not so sure that even there I'd limit

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct

2015-07-15 Thread Claudio Guerri
Gary, List, you are right Gary, but there is still a strange behavior in most of us Peirce-listers... we read and study Peirce, but then we write and understand was is written in a strict 'positivist' way. Since everything is a sign and every sign has to be considered triadic... then of course

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct

2015-07-15 Thread gnox
[mailto:gary.richm...@gmail.com] Sent: July 15, 2015 3:21 PM To: Peirce-L Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct Jeff, John, list, Jeff, quoting Peirce, wrote: This claims is particularly interesting: Association may happen to be of advantage to the associating individuals; but each individual's

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct

2015-07-15 Thread Ozzie
From: Stephen Jarosek [sjaro...@iinet.net.au] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 1:28 AM To: 'John Collier'; mig...@cegri.es; peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct A further observation regarding the distinction between the Peircean

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct

2015-07-15 Thread Edwina Taborsky
. Edwina - Original Message - From: Claudio Guerri To: Gary Richmond ; peirce-L@list.iupui.edu Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 3:22 PM Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct Gary, List, you are right Gary, but there is still a strange behavior in most of us Peirce-listers... we read

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct

2015-07-15 Thread Jeffrey Brian Downard
Department of Philosophy NAU (o) 523-8354 From: g...@gnusystems.ca [g...@gnusystems.ca] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 1:01 PM To: 'Peirce-L' Subject: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct Jeff, Gary et al., My first thought was that instinct being a habit

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct

2015-07-15 Thread gnox
that a possibility for what Peirce had in mind? Gary f. From: Gary Richmond [mailto:gary.richm...@gmail.com] Sent: July 15, 2015 3:21 PM To: Peirce-L Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct Jeff, John, list, Jeff, quoting Peirce, wrote: This claims is particularly interesting: Association may happen

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct

2015-07-15 Thread Stephen Jarosek
: Claudio Guerri [mailto:claudiogue...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 15 July 2015 9:23 PM To: Gary Richmond; peirce-L@list.iupui.edu Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct Gary, List, you are right Gary, but there is still a strange behavior in most of us Peirce-listers... we read and study Peirce

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct

2015-07-15 Thread Jeffrey Brian Downard
-8354 From: Gary Richmond [gary.richm...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 7:36 AM To: Peirce-L Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct John, First, I agree with you that Miguel's snippet from A Theory of Probable Inference is a gem (esp. the important truth

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct

2015-07-15 Thread Benjamin Udell
John C., list, Here's another Peirce quote on instinct, FWIW: [§6. The Fallibility of Reasoning and the Feeling of Rationality (Minute Logic, ergo 1902 or 1903) CP 2.170.] If I may be allowed to use the word habit, without any implication as to the time or manner in which it

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct

2015-07-15 Thread charlespyle
It is not obvious to me, perhaps exposing holes in my knowledge of Peirce, if or how instinct is different from abduction. - Original Message - From: Benjamin Udell bud...@nyc.rr.com To: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 9:50:28 AM Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct

2015-07-15 Thread Neal Bruss
...@iinet.net.au] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 1:28 AM To: 'John Collier'; mig...@cegri.es; peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct A further observation regarding the distinction between the Peircean paradigm (knowledge, including instinct, as learned) versus genocentrism (instinct as data

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Instinct

2015-07-14 Thread John Collier
Thanks to everyone who responded, but especially to Miguel for sending this gem. Now I just have to figure out what lies behind it. I agree with Jeff that the Century Dictionary entries are not particularly useful. I should be asleep. Best to all, John From: mig...@cegri.es