Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] was EGs and Phaneroscopy

2019-02-18 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }JAS, list: ET: Essentially, then, pragmatism/icism is the abductive examination of Thirdness, or, hypotheses about the laws governing observable instantiations. And it is rooted in percepts, in the actual observable worl

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] was EGs and Phaneroscopy

2019-02-18 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Edwina, List: It sounds to me like we are generally in agreement. JAS: As I have said repeatedly in defense of our terminological discussions here, the goal is always to make our (and Peirce's) ideas clear; but that is not an end in itself--it is simply an indispensable step toward developing ap

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] was EGs and Phaneroscopy

2019-02-18 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }List In my view, terminological 'definitions' do not 'make our ideas clear'. And pragmatism has nothing to do with definitions. JAS wrote: "According to Peirce, it [note: pragmatism] is "merely a method

Re: RE: RE: Re: [PEIRCE-L] was EGs and Phaneroscopy

2019-02-18 Thread Edwina Taborsky
y Richmond' ; Auke van Breemen Onderwerp: Re: RE: Re: [PEIRCE-L] was EGs and Phaneroscopy Auke wrote: RE: I would formulate the goal not as looking for an explanation. For me, such an enterprise ought to aid in getting better immediate objects of the dynamical object that is being st

RE: RE: Re: [PEIRCE-L] was EGs and Phaneroscopy

2019-02-18 Thread Auke van Breemen
go together with a plan for action that delivers a solution. Best, Auke van Breemen Van: Edwina Taborsky Verzonden: zondag 17 februari 2019 17:06 Aan: tabor...@primus.ca; 'Peirce-L' ; 'Gary Richmond' ; Auke van Breemen Onderwerp: Re: RE: Re: [PEIRCE-L] was

Re: RE: Re: [PEIRCE-L] was EGs and Phaneroscopy

2019-02-17 Thread Edwina Taborsky
Auke wrote: RE: I would formulate the goal not as looking for an explanation. For me, such an enterprise ought to aid in getting better immediate objects of the dynamical object that is being studied. Diagrams are excellent means to come to grips with complex systems by supporting and or