Perhaps, Charlie--even a bedpan-changer thinks that--, but....proving that ..posit is another matter. For one,...that external reality is subject to the parameters of human vision itself (as Kant realized ...). Were you say a human-giraffe hybrid..or blind---your perception of "reality" would be quite different.
(actually jh I find Peirce's writing on language interesting-. But he also had ...a 19th century quack aspect as well)
Prophet? not so sure. A powerful wizard, CSP seems to me , more than prophet..or even philosopher ala Kunt, Bagel, Play-doe,v etc. You have the Peirce Dover klassic ? Some of it fascinating--his process thought ala Hegel, more than the bottlewashin' stuff or linguistics.
Peirce, as in "purse"--a bit scandalous back in the day (took up with a gal--they were unmarried-and Harvard..canned him. Later WmJames..helped him. But he's a stranger creature than James IMHO. ...Iveread Peirce dabbled in the occult--and after some time his big ancestral house burnt down. No longer dabbled)
I know Pierce through his mathematical and logical writings. He was the first to formalize the calculus of relations -- stuff that computer science types often credit to Codd. They're only off by a century. His writing can be quirky, but there are times when it is shockingly modern. I'll point specifically to his final papers on the calculus of relations (1870) and on natural deductions (1880 IIRC). This work was practically ignored in the US, but it was picked up by Schröder and formed the basis for his celebrated "Algebra and Logic," which in turn was the formal system in which Löwenheim wrote his seminal 1915 paper, and so entered the mainstream discussion of Mathematical Foundations at Göttingen.
Peirce's dad Benjamin was also a mathematician of note. He's the person who devised the representation of the complexes within GL(2), a specific instance of his general mathematical program to reify algebraic structures through matrix representations. CS Pierce's work on the calculus of relations evolved out of an attempt to extend his father's mathematical program to infinite dimensional spaces. Contemplating the parallels in the definition of a matrix multiplication (i.e., a composition of linear transformations) and relational joins (i.e., composition of generalized relations) shows that he was on to something, although it took him about a decade to get it right. I suspect he finally got around to reading Boole sometime late that decade.
IUPUI -- Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis -- has CS Pierce's papers, and many memorabilia. It's curious how many careers he had: surveyor, mathematician, and philosopher, among others.
BTW, I tracked down the book I was talking about earlier, "Naming Infinity" regarding the development of higher infinities. There is a religious connection, but it's not with Kabbalistic Judiasm as you might suspect, but... with Name Worshiping, a specific heresy of the Russian Orthodox Church that emerged from the monasteries at St. Athos (Greece) in the late 1800's. I'm working my reading of the book around my insane work schedule, but I think it might be worthy of further discussion later.
semiotics dyadic and triadic differences this is what i know about peirce in some significant way he replaced the actual experience of the human being into the conversation about what knowledge is about
he's in the line of thomistic realism in many ways
anyway walker percy wrote his last big essay on peirce and delivered it to some big lecture series shortly before he died
walker insisted that CSP was the renewed ticket to comprehensible recognition of learned matters
Whither Walker Percy (or CSP for that matter)? He's not my favorite writer but one might say he was purged. Along with like Faulkner, O'Connor, others (EA Poe, even). Pourquoi??? Speculation--academia doesn't care for the southern intellectual, unless perhaps they're texas engineer types--NASA. The catholic aspects of so. writers also problematic for the ....techie-zionist capitalist colleges and unis ,really. A Dr. Percy's or Faulkner's bad for business--as say Dostoyevsky is. Or Death itself.
So Peirce is ....valued--for his computer science-logical aspects.That's alright (IIRC Russell thought Peirce a genius...makes use of his writing on relations,etc)--but in a sense overlooks ...other aspects--the language writing, the process- thought, an his attempt to reconcile evolution and philosophy of a sort.
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Perhaps, Charlie--even a bedpan-changer thinks that--, but....proving that ..posit is another matter. For one,...that external reality is subject to the parameters of human vision itself (as Kant realized ...). Were you say a human-giraffe hybrid..or blind---your perception of "reality" would be quite different.
(actually jh I find Peirce's writing on language interesting-. But he also had ...a 19th century quack aspect as well)
charles sanders peirce
the true american neglected prophet
the benighted masses just cannot hear him
but he says almost everything we need to know
Prophet? not so sure. A powerful
wizard, CSP seems to me , more than prophet..or even philosopher ala Kunt, Bagel, Play-doe,v etc. You have the Peirce Dover klassic ? Some of it fascinating--his process thought ala Hegel, more than the bottlewashin' stuff or linguistics.
Peirce, as in "purse"--a bit scandalous back in the day (took up with a gal--they were unmarried-and Harvard..canned him. Later WmJames..helped him. But he's a stranger creature than James IMHO. ...Iveread Peirce dabbled in the occult--and after some time his big ancestral house burnt down. No longer dabbled)
I know Pierce through his mathematical and logical writings. He was the first to formalize the calculus of relations -- stuff that computer science types often credit to Codd. They're only off by a century. His writing can be quirky, but there are times when it is shockingly modern. I'll point specifically to his final papers on the calculus of relations (1870) and on natural deductions (1880 IIRC). This work was practically ignored in the US, but it was picked up by Schröder and formed the basis for his celebrated "Algebra and Logic," which in turn was the formal system in which Löwenheim wrote his seminal 1915 paper, and so entered the mainstream discussion of Mathematical Foundations at Göttingen.
Peirce's dad Benjamin was also a mathematician of note. He's the person who devised the representation of the complexes within GL(2), a specific instance of his general mathematical program to reify algebraic structures through matrix representations. CS Pierce's work on the calculus of relations evolved out of an attempt to extend his father's mathematical program to infinite dimensional spaces. Contemplating the parallels in the definition of a matrix multiplication (i.e., a composition of linear transformations) and relational joins (i.e., composition of generalized relations) shows that he was on to something, although it took him about a decade to get it right. I suspect he finally got around to reading Boole sometime late that decade.
IUPUI -- Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis -- has CS Pierce's papers, and many memorabilia. It's curious how many careers he had: surveyor, mathematician, and philosopher, among others.
BTW, I tracked down the book I was talking about earlier, "Naming Infinity" regarding the development of higher infinities. There is a religious connection, but it's not with Kabbalistic Judiasm as you might suspect, but... with Name Worshiping, a specific heresy of the Russian Orthodox Church that emerged from the monasteries at St. Athos (Greece) in the late 1800's. I'm working my reading of the book around my insane work schedule, but I think it might be worthy of further discussion later.
semiotics dyadic and triadic differences this is what i know about peirce
in some significant way he replaced the actual experience of the human being into the conversation about what knowledge is about
he's in the line of thomistic realism in many ways
anyway
walker percy wrote his last big essay on peirce and delivered it to some big lecture series shortly before he died
walker insisted that CSP was the renewed ticket to comprehensible recognition of learned matters
i tend to agree with that
jh
Whither Walker Percy (or CSP for that matter)? He's not my favorite writer but one might say he was purged. Along with like Faulkner, O'Connor, others (EA Poe, even). Pourquoi??? Speculation--academia doesn't care for the southern intellectual, unless perhaps they're texas engineer types--NASA. The catholic aspects of so. writers also problematic for the ....techie-zionist capitalist colleges and unis ,really. A Dr. Percy's or Faulkner's bad for business--as say Dostoyevsky is. Or Death itself.
So Peirce is ....valued--for his computer science-logical aspects.That's alright (IIRC Russell thought Peirce a genius...makes use of his writing on relations,etc)--but in a sense overlooks ...other aspects--the language writing, the process- thought, an his attempt to reconcile evolution and philosophy of a sort.
still the case stands
for real things in the world
which are not reliant at all on human observation
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