Edwina, List:
ET: See also "To say that there was no action is to say there was no
actuality"...before which all was absolutely motionless and dead 1.275.
Once again, it is important to examine a larger excerpt in order to
understand the full context of these comments by Peirce.
CSP: There a
Jerry, I think you're right. At the very least I overly precided two very
vague concept, viz., God and 'Being in general', by relating them to force
and acceleration which can be fairly precided.
CSP: "All the instinctive beliefs, I notice, are vague. The moment they are
precided, the pragmatist w
Edwina, List:
ET: Now - we can presumably consider that IF truth, i.e., in this case,
the Reality of X, depends on an individual existentiality of X, then isn't
this the Scientific Method - or Peirce's pragmatism?
No, according to Peirce's pragmaticism, the Reality of X *does not* depend
on "
Matt, List:
Creation and causation are not exactly the same thing, especially since
Peirce consistently held that God's creative activity is *ongoing*. In any
case, he drew a very specific analogy in the quoted passage between
becoming acquainted with a person by studying his works and becoming
a
Matt:
> On May 17, 2018, at 11:47 AM, Matt Faunce wrote:
>
> in "not 'the physico-psychical universe' itself". Isn't the relation of God
> the Creator to His Creation, viz., the physico-psychical universe, for all we
> know, the same as the relation of force to acceleration?
Physical mathemati
Jon, are you warranted in saying "not", in "not 'the physico-psychical
universe' itself". Isn't the relation of God the Creator to His Creation,
viz., the physico-psychical universe, for all we know, the same as the
relation of force to acceleration?
CSP: "Whether we ought to say that force *is* a
Stephen R., List:
That is your own personal view about reality and truth, but it is obviously
different from Peirce's, for whom those concepts were two sides of the same
coin.
CSP: Truth consists in the existence of a real fact corresponding to the
true proposition. (CP 2.652; 1878)
CSP: ... a
A dream is a sign. A sign is anything that can be perceived. At this point,
you perceive your dream and someone else or others know you had a dream.
Reality has nothing to do with truth or falsehood. Nothing is unreal
including dreams, lies, and raindrops and whatever becomes of them. This
mode of
Edwina, Stephen R., List:
Robert Lane's new book, *Peirce on Realism and Idealism*, helpfully
clarifies Peirce's verbal and pragmaticistic definitions of "real," and how
he carefully distinguished that term from "external." On Peirce's account,
the "real" is "that which is independent of what any
