[FRIAM] IS: "...useful". WAS:: whackadoodles go mainstream!

uǝlƃ ☣ gepropella at gmail.com
Mon Apr 20 16:59:38 EDT 2020


I think your Peirce simulation might deny it. But his very useful work in logic (at the very least) shows he was capable of realizing the same sense of what is useful that I have. You're not in love with Peirce, your in love with your idea of Peirce.

On 4/20/20 1:38 PM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> To the Pragmatism chat-site and watch it light up.  But you have taught me that that would be trolling, and I believe that trolling is an unequivocally Bad Thing, so I won’t. 
> 
>  [...]
> Because it’s inventor, Peirce, would not have tolerated a definition of “useful” in terms of “making metal ducks that shit,” and William James would have.

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