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

2006-09-27 Thread martin lefebvre
therefore be a mind in an entirely different sense, it would be a mind that cannot grow, that cannot form habits; it would be the mere possibility of a mind, one where the law of mind would be a mere incohate possibility. cheers, Martin Lefebvre Martin, Joe, et al., 25.9.2006 kello 19:4

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

2006-09-25 Thread martin lefebvre
d whose wealth grows indefinitely through the constant arrival of new souls... It is almost as if looking up in the sky can sometimes tell us something about what goes on down here on earth...!!! Martin Lefebvre Martin -- ad Bill: Martin, I find what you are saying both plausible and resulting

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

2006-09-25 Thread martin lefebvre
f the argument) that Peirce, in the way he ordered the 4 methods, was already manifesting some insight with regards to esthetics's connection to logic (though somewhat unwittingly)... Martin Lefebvre Dear Joe, Thanks for your response and the quote. On second thoughts, informed with the quote y

[peirce-l] Re: "reduction of the manifold to unity"

2006-09-10 Thread martin lefebvre
facts but we have no access to mere givens without representation/observation") brings us back to the dreaded Kantian ding-an-sich... best, Martin Lefebvre Dear Martin,   Thanks for these comments.  You may well be right that I am introducing an unnecessary psychological overlay to my account

[peirce-l] Re: "reduction of the manifold to unity"

2006-09-10 Thread martin lefebvre
ly) aware of their interpretability: here, semiosis, the action of the sign, becomes itself an object of our thought. In this case our "consciousness" is merely a further interpretant of the initial sign and of its triadic relation to the object and the interpretant. Could it be, the

[peirce-l] Re: What's going on here?

2006-02-23 Thread martin lefebvre
atures for the task at hand. That Peirce asks his reader to "think in order to see" he is asking that the proof become indubitable to him as well. No other proof than that of perception/observation/experience is to be had. cheers, Martin Lefebvre On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:37:58 +0100, Gary

[peirce-l] Re: What's going on here?

2006-02-23 Thread martin lefebvre
reader to "think in order to see" he is asking that the proof become indubitable to him as well. No other proof than that of perception/observation/experience is to be had. cheers, Martin Lefebvre On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:37:58 +0100, Gary Richmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[peirce-l] Re: Question regarding "literary jounals" and pragmatism

2006-02-16 Thread martin lefebvre
Dear Thomas Riese, Thanks for your response. That Wiener link is surprising -- he even mentions Luigi Pirandello! However, from the quote, it seems Peirce had the British in mind... (which leaves Schiller and his entourage...) Martin Lefebvre --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber

[peirce-l] Question regarding "literary jounals" and pragmatism

2006-02-07 Thread martin lefebvre
ntury (see quote below). Does anyone on this list know what publications he was refering to? Thanks in advance Martin Lefebvre From CP.5.414  "After awaiting in vain, for a good many years, some particularly opportune conjuncture of circumstances that might serve to recommend his notions of

[peirce-l] Re: NEW ELEMENTS: So what is it all about?

2006-01-31 Thread martin lefebvre
on" may be related, at least in part, to the arrival of the new trichotomy]. (**For instance, it is clear that an index is a degenerate sign [as is an icon] and that a genuine index is not a pure index) (J'ai récemment rédigé un texte, en français, qui traite de certaines de ces questi

[peirce-l] Re: NEW ELEMENTS (KAINA STOICHEIA) available at Arisbe

2006-01-24 Thread martin lefebvre
ent is found in lecture 6 of the Harvard Lectures when Peirce asserts: "...perception being for the logician simply what experience, that is, the succession of what happens to him, forces him to admit immediately and without any reason." Martin Lefebvre J-Mo:  > interesting notion in this