[peirce-l] Re: What "fundamental psychological laws" is Peirce referring to?

2006-09-27 Thread Eugene Halton
Kirsti Mtt��nen saunalahti.fi> writes: > > Dear Eugene, > > Thanks for an inspiring mail. The idea of a progressively broadening > social conception I find a very fruitful one, enriching the idea of a > logical ordering. This, together with your exhilarating > thought-experiment with an e

[peirce-l] Re: What "fundamenal psychological laws" is Peirce referring to?

2006-09-27 Thread Clark Goble
On Sep 27, 2006, at 5:53 PM, Jacob Longshore wrote:A bit like the hermeneutic circle of Heidegger - the structure of meaning, and of Dasein itself, looping back on itself and forming a system (H. 153 of Being and Time). So far as I know, Heidegger never read Peirce, but they seem to be touching on

[peirce-l] Re: What "fundamenal psychological laws" is Peirce referring to?

2006-09-27 Thread Jacob Longshore
Gary, Joe, Kirsti, list, > Personally i think the contradiction is more apparent than flat. As i > said (and i think Kirsti said the same), this is not circulum vitiosum > but a pattern which underlies inquiry and therefore can only be itself > investigated via a cyclical process. I have to agree

[peirce-l] Re: Peirce and knowledge

2006-09-27 Thread Clark Goble
On Sep 27, 2006, at 12:19 PM, Joseph Ransdell wrote:This word is used in logic in two senses: (1) as a synonym for Cognition, and (2), and more usefully, to signify a perfect cognition, that is, a cognition fulfilling three conditions: first, that it holds for true a proposition that really is true

[peirce-l] Re: Peirce and knowledge

2006-09-27 Thread Joseph Ransdell
Burke and Clark:Burke asks whether Peirce ever defined "knowledge", and I would add this to what Clark says:.REPLY:Yes, and very cagily, in Baldwin's Dictionary, and it appears in the Collected Papers as follows:==Peirce: CP 5.605-6  from  Baldwin's Dictionary (190

[peirce-l] Re: What "fundamenal psychological laws" is Peirce referring to?

2006-09-27 Thread jwillgoose
Kirsti,   You say,   "What I'm curious about, is whether Peirce ever referred to these two as LAWS of mind. He may have considered them as psychological tendencies, or something like that (something empirical psychology could investigate). " (end) I thought of the laws of association (

[peirce-l] Re: What "fundamenal psychological laws" is Peirce referring to?

2006-09-27 Thread gnusystems
Joe, Kirsti, list, [[ Well, Gary, it looks like some fancy footwork with the term "is rooted in" might have to be resorted to if we are to save Peirce on this one! You've caught him with a flat contradiction there! ]] Personally i think the contradiction is more apparent than flat. As i said (an

[peirce-l] Re: What "fundamenal psychological laws" is Peirce referring to?

2006-09-27 Thread martin lefebvre
Title: [peirce-l] Re: What "fundamenal psychological laws" is Pei Kristi, Yes indeed, I'm thinking of growth logically. This is why I don't think (at least am not convinced by any argument I've seen) that there is much to be gained by looking at the order of different methods of "fixation" chief

[peirce-l] Re: What "fundamenal psychological laws" is Peirce referring to?

2006-09-27 Thread Stephen Springette
Coming out of hibernation this is one hell of an interesting thread, but I've not had time to put in my contribution because my time is consumed with various projects. So I'll put in my 0.02 cents worth now. What more compelling factor in "fixation of belief" is there than the mind-body un

[peirce-l] Re: What "fundamental psychological laws" is Peirce referring to?

2006-09-27 Thread Kirsti Määttänen
Dear Eugene, Thanks for an inspiring mail. The idea of a progressively broadening social conception I find a very fruitful one, enriching the idea of a logical ordering. This, together with your exhilarating thought-experiment with an evolutionary-historical progression, definitely made some thoug