Approaching Peirce

(or maybe "Approaches to Peirce")

Peircers,

I thought it might be useful to detach the following aside
for the sake of further development, partly because I feel
that it explains the gist of my current perspective on the
upcoming group read of Kaina Stoicheia, not to mention the
reception(s) of Peirce's work generally.

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I gradually grow accustomed to the distinct possibility that there will always
be different readings, and even divergent interpretations of Peirce's writings.
Some of that appears to be a two- or three-cultures issue -- the readings that
befit aesthetic, cultural, and literary aims often part ways with the readings
that work best for logical, mathematical, and scientific ends.  Partly this is
due to the fact that applications to the humanities are soon over-whelmed with
the vastly greater complexities of their theatres of operation, and so must be
satisfied with very impressionistic and highly sketchy surveys of their realms.

It hasn't always been this way with me, but most of the time these days
I approach Peirce's work from the standpoint of a practical mathematician
focused on applications to empirical sciences, as luck would determine it,
to the Odyssean no man's land between qualitative and quantitative methods.
That is far from how I started out, and there were many crises of mind and
mood occasioned by the transits of my transdisciplinarity, but that is how
it came to be at the present moment.

At any rate, what I find in Peirce are not antiques but tools toward the future.

cc: http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/06/30/approaching-peirce/

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Regards,

Jon

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