Dear Charles,
Always worthwhile for me to read your
comments. I've interspersed some responses. Charles Rudder wrote:
Jim Pait, list,
Jim's comments on ethics and aesthetics brought to mind some things I
have thought about but not thought through which include:
1. Is any
Dear Tom,
Good to hear from you! Your wrote:
Specifically, in what sense are "the good and the beautiful ... more
fundamental" than truth? How could something be good or beautiful
without it first being true that it is good or beautiful? And looking
at the quote you provided:
"Esthetics i
Ben, Patrck, List
BU = Ben Udell
AS = Arnold Shepperson
BU: Peirce said that mathematics is the science which _draws_ necessary conclusions, as opposed to its being a science _of_ necessary conclusions. The science _of_ reasoning, necessary and otherwise, he called logic and placed it in philo
