[FRIAM] "the arc of ...bends toward ...."

[glen∉ℂ]

Marcus said that. >8^D  But I'm honored to be confused for Marcus.

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On 6/15/20 12:10 PM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> Glen Hath Said:
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> Hah, the arc of technical universe is long, but it bends toward best practices?
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> Wow, Glen, did this send me down a rat-hole.  I thought at first that it was something that Oliver Wendall Holmes might have said about justice, because Holmes was at the table with Peirce and James invented pragmatism, and, I am told, tended to think about Justice in the same way that Peirce thought about truth.  The arc of inqury bends toward truth.  That led me to search the quotations of OWH, father and son, but, as you know, I never found the quote in either Holmes, Sr or Jr,  because it is not there.  It is of course from that famous Pragmatist Philosopher, Martin Luther King who cribbed it from a 19^th Century Abolitionist minister, Theodore Parker, who was a notable member of the same community in which the young Peirce ,young James and young Holmes grew up.   (https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/11/15/arc-of-universe/) .
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> However, I don’t regard the time as lost.  An hour rummaging around in the quotations of the Holmes’s was well worth it.  I recommend it.  My favorite of the moment is
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> The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
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> Which seems somehow to bear on the paradox of free will.
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> Glen, the recent efflorescence of reflection on free will, etc., caused me once again to try and distill the correspondence, so I could try to grasp it.  This time I tried with nabble.  Still no luck .   Yeah, I know.  Now that I have climbed out thie ‘arc of … justice” rat hole, I may make another try.  Does the arc of effort bend toward success?
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