[FRIAM] Everything she knows...

[Frank Wimberly]

Nick,

No criticism intended.  We're all the same in so many ways.

Frank

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Frank Wimberly

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On Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 10:52 PM Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> Dear Frank,
>
>
>
> We octogenarian former academics have to do what we can.  Lacking
> laboratories, libraries, secretaries graduate students, seminars, colloquia
> and all the other joys of academic life, the one thing we CAN do is buy a
> few books and study them carefully.  So that’s what I do.  FRIAM has helped
> me stay alive as a mind by humoring me as I come to terms with Peirce.
> Thanks to you all.
>
>
>
> Nick
>
>
>
> Nicholas S. Thompson
>
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>
> Clark University
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>
>
>
> *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Frank
> Wimberly
> *Sent:* Monday, April 15, 2019 6:24 PM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Everything she knows...
>
>
>
> I don't know you en vivo, Marcus, but do you deny that there exists
> something that you worship or are you saying that there are no people who
> worship nothing?  I am tempted to write that in predicate calculus.  In my
> experience some people worship science as the royal road to the truth.
> Nick's attachment to Peirce reminds me of some religious people's behavior,
> including quoting scripture.  I have a similar relationship to
> psychoanalytic theory.  I agree with you that La Mott meant that the
> conventional religions were not the only options when she mentioned the
> Muffin and St. Bob (Dylan).
>
>
>
> (I used to work in the Research Center in Child Psychiatry at the
> University of Pittsburgh.  The Department of Psychiatry at that time was
> dominated by psychoanalysts.)
>
>
>
> Frank
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> Frank Wimberly
>
> My memoir:
> https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly
>
> My scientific publications:
> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2
>
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