Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:7959] Natural Propositions:

2015-01-19 Thread Howard Pattee
At 08:02 PM 1/18/2015, Frederik Stjernfelt wrote: FS: I know of no-one being a realist about any possible claim or any possible universal! All realists know it is only some universals which are real ("phologiston", "ether", "unicorn" and a host of others are not). HP: In my mind this is a trui

[PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:7959] Natural Propositions:

2015-01-18 Thread Frederik Stjernfelt
Den 18/01/2015 kl. 19.50 skrev Howard Pattee mailto:hpat...@roadrunner.com>>: At 04:46 AM 1/18/2015, Frederik Stjernfelt wrote: Miller (from SEP): "It is rather the case that one can be more-or-less realist about a particular subject matter." FS: But this is a truism. HP: I disagree. What Mil