Re: Peirce, Existentialism, and Metaphysics

Re: Steven Ericsson-Zenith et al.
In: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/9501

Re: Eugene Halton
At: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/9530

Re: "Subnatural Theory Of Nature"

I think that is a good way to explain what has gone off the rails with this neo-logical positivism.

I had thought that all the old mis-interpretations of Peirce's pragmatism — as conventionalism, idealism, 
verificationism, and all the other cookie-cutter isms that formed analytic philosophy's repertoire for approaching what 
it failed to analyze — had long ago been laid to rest, but I see that some still harbor them.

The pragmatic maxim is advice addressed to an interpreter — which may of course be a community of interpreters — 
advising how he, she, or they might clarify his, her, or their concepts.  The advice is not absolute in the sense of 
being uniquely determined independent of interpretation but remains relative to an interpretant.  Thus it speaks to 
“thy” meaning not “the” meaning.

A way of clarifying concepts is distinct from a way of verifying statements, though the former may of course prepare the 
way for the latter.

Cf. http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2008/08/07/pragmatic-maxim/

Regards,

Jon

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