[FRIAM] Abduction

[Nick Thompson]

Hi, Everybody, 

 

I am having WAY too much fun, here, and should pull back.  Before I do, just a word of caution.  I always forget that Peirce's definition is an asserting of the meaning of Truth and Real, not an assertion of their existence.  These definitions flow from the pragmatic maxim, which is 

Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then, our conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object.

So what effects to we conceive a truth to have:  It would be that in the very long run, the community of inquiry will in the very long run, in asymptote-time, agree on it.   That, Peirce argues, is all we can mean by True.  

 

Notice that nothing at all could ever be true, and this definition could still represent what we mean by true.  So Glen and Peirce may agree after all. 

 

Nick 

 

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

 

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We're getting closer EVERY DAY!

 

   <https://psi-2020.org/> https://psi-2020.org/

 

Oh, and if anyone needs a charity to toss some 2018 money at:

 

   <https://maps.org/> https://maps.org/

 

 

On 12/31/18 12:18 PM, Prof David West wrote:

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> 

> "Maybe the answer is to take a fistful of magic mushrooms and listen to some Bach? "

> 

> Always the answer!

> 

> LSD in a sensory deprivation tank, ala Timothy Hurt in the movie Altered States, was, for me, even better.

 

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☣ uǝlƃ

 

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