Re: The Power of Peirce’s Thought

MF: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/8650
GR: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/8651
JA: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/8687
KM: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/8700
GR: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/8702
JA: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/8704
JC: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/8705
SB: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/8721
JA: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/8706
SR: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/8707

SR: I am the soul of naivete and non-expertness but isn't triadic thinking simply
     the willingness to see the stupidity of binary thinking which has laid waste
     to the world almost since its conscious inception?  Triadic to me is nothing
     more than what is natural.  Seeing past two sides.  Peirce enriches this
     immeasurably with his elucidations.  But this AM it occurred to me that
     even the Bard and Peirce and all of us are simply parts of a beneficent
     dust storm being blown toward the future and that Peirce understood
     this perfectly and could not have done so minus the capacity to
     think triadically.  We are a community whether we know it or not,
     to coin a phrase.

Stephen & List,

There are reasons why I felt I needed to stand back from the picture that
others were painting -- of personal styles in the creative process and also
in the wider intellectual landscape -- and to seek an outside peirce-spective
on the tensions that were being portrayed between the contrasting alternatives.
Retouching a trace of the transient pique, I wrote words roughly to this effect:

JA: Beyond the pale of Peirce the great majority of discussions
     in that vein tend to bedevil themselves interminably with a
     style of dichotomous thinking that Peirce taught us ways to
     transcend.

On third thought, "transcend" is not exactly the right word,
as I'd never want to suggest that the tensions are not real,
or that it pays to resolve them too prematurely.  Still, it
is hardly ever the case that the lost chord is lost forever.

Regards,

Jon

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