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Because of my understanding of the inherent analog nature of Thirdness, I cannot haphazardly abstract and apply the word 'matrix' to it. Here again, g...
December 26, 2024 at 15:59
We each stand in placement within a morphing process and see what is available to our senses in that current placement of time and space (consider Mik...
December 26, 2024 at 15:43
Perhaps it might be helpful to delve into the history of nominalism and its manifestations in theological (religious) thought. Nominalism (the practic...
December 26, 2024 at 15:31
Thank you! I hope you're also enjoying the seasonal festivities.
December 26, 2024 at 13:51
Manifested, presenting beings acting as catalysts within a grander narrative... and that narrative exists. Otherwise, there would be no manifestation ...
December 26, 2024 at 13:10
Why bother? ... Because of the necessity of being to becoming. That is the causality of semiosis. Thirdness in action. An open system is a living syst...
December 26, 2024 at 12:44
Gravity, magnetism, entropy, thermodynamics, ... Do these not exist? ....... Only physical, touchable, material forms exist? I suppose so, that is if ...
December 26, 2024 at 04:14
Hmm .... I haven't been on the 'forum' for several years, but this is a good starting place for me to jump back in. :grin: 'Abstractions' are a huge c...
December 25, 2024 at 15:38
Like others who come here to post, I am only hoping to find others who are familiar with these topics so we can engage in productive dialogue. I mista...
February 27, 2021 at 22:30
Oh my... So sorry. It was definitely not intentional.
February 27, 2021 at 22:11
I have just listed this book as the first approved textbook for the Synechism Center for Learning and Dialogue. Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy
February 27, 2021 at 18:05
Since I received no responses on my last couple of posts, I can only suppose that they are not understood. This doesn't really surprise me, because th...
February 25, 2021 at 14:17
I wrote to my pen pal, Dr. Richard Lanigan, for his insight on this. As always, he is brilliant. Here is an excerpt from his response to me. ... "Ther...
February 23, 2021 at 11:34
An excellent video! And as nominalism evolved and 'convention' became more and more 'particular' and 'individualized', it became more and more divisiv...
February 22, 2021 at 18:25
I'm not trying to prove anything other than precisely that... perspective. Everything I have talked about in this thread expresses that.
February 18, 2021 at 00:27
Asking where it 'resides' is a nominalist perspective (see my previous views on nominalism). My perspective is more akin to this perspective and this ...
February 16, 2021 at 13:13
Hmm... I suppose the only way to directly answer that is to say "neither?". If you are coming at this topic as a nominalist, you will probably only ge...
February 15, 2021 at 17:25
You're very welcome. :blush:
February 15, 2021 at 16:21
Here's a better link for 'Transactions'
February 15, 2021 at 15:47
Yes, some of those articles seem almost as if they are trying to confuse people with complexity. I think the most important thing to remember is that ...
February 15, 2021 at 15:34
So... there are a couple of pages (well, there's more than a couple, but these two are in the forefront of my mind this morning) in 'Isonomia and the ...
February 15, 2021 at 13:55
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December 16, 2020 at 22:31
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December 16, 2020 at 22:31
Just thinking out loud here, but if we consider this question in light of what physicist Fred Alan Wolf said about 'willful intention' in that video I...
December 16, 2020 at 19:47
Excellent point! What is the 'sweet spot' of evolution, where an organism becomes aware of 'self', and recognizes that its reflection is not that of a...
December 16, 2020 at 17:24
I would argue against this point. Although the word 'orthogenesis' is taboo, here are some things to consider...... The science of epigenetics has tak...
December 16, 2020 at 14:29
Is Consciousness an Ultimate Fact? Fred Alan Wolf https://youtu.be/a1A2xdv-X6k
December 16, 2020 at 09:31
Oh, I'm by no means saying that he was a stranger to a Platonist outlook, but I definitely understand him to be more complex. In the last decade of hi...
December 16, 2020 at 06:10
I'm not so sure of how receptive Peirce would be of Nagel's opinion of him. :wink: .... This is an excellent example of what I mentioned previously ab...
December 15, 2020 at 23:49
I also want to mention that Peirce's perspective on God was his understanding of a guiding principle in the Universe, not that of a 'man in the sky' (...
December 15, 2020 at 13:25
In order to examine this, you would need to look at what the archetypes of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit have in common with Peirce's First...
December 15, 2020 at 12:55
Yep. :smile: Thanks for bringing up the topic. One of the biggest difficulties I run into is that so many people read something someone else has writt...
December 15, 2020 at 00:38
Someone living whose work I highly admire. He brings the wonderful work of Spinoza and Peirce into real application in regard to so many of the challe...
December 13, 2020 at 16:53
Speaking of information... I'm not at all surprised by this news. This is precisely why David Bohm is also featured on my educational website. .... "T...
December 12, 2020 at 10:28
You are very welcome. :smile:
December 09, 2020 at 04:26
@"Gnomon" This brand new video that was just recommended to me delves into semiosis and 'information behavior'. I was especially happy to hear them me...
December 01, 2020 at 16:32
I came upon this paper that carries a lot of information and references. Applied Communicology in Organizational PR and R&D: Peirce on Synechism, Full...
November 30, 2020 at 14:10
@"Gnomon" You may find this interesting, as Yagmur Denizhan discusses the difference in information compared to Shannon. This is a live stream, and sh...
November 29, 2020 at 16:32
For anyone here who may be serious about learning, and they are suspicious that I am only here to promote my educational site, you can find a lot of i...
November 29, 2020 at 15:06
Great new article! :grin: Just out this month!!! Temporal Synechism: A Peircean Philosophy of Time https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10516-02...
November 28, 2020 at 18:22
No. I can't teach anyone to think in terms of Semiology. As I mentioned previously, Semiology is the semiotics of Ferdinand de Saussure, not C.S.Peirc...
November 28, 2020 at 18:00
There is much more explanation at the bottom of this post. ..... But after mulling this over a bit, I was thinking that perhaps it would be helpful to...
November 28, 2020 at 14:07
Agreed. The words I used in the title of the original post were chosen for a reason. An energy exchange does not necessarily account for awareness, an...
November 27, 2020 at 19:27
Great article! Thank you for sharing it. And what the paragraph above states makes perfect sense. "Energetic activity is fundamental to all physical p...
November 27, 2020 at 14:38
Gnomon, Upon re-reading some of this thread's posts, I realized that I somehow overlooked this. Try switching these when contemplating our discussions...
November 26, 2020 at 15:48
Okay, Devil's Advocate. I'll play. :naughty: No, Peirce is not saying that there is no such thing as a paradox, but there is a very clear difference b...
November 26, 2020 at 13:44
Okay.... I plan to walk through this part of our discussion somewhat slowly, because anyone else reading this (not necessarily referring to you) may h...
November 25, 2020 at 14:10
Before I switch to the language of Physics, and since the original purpose of this thread is to discuss Consciousness, I want to point out the differe...
November 24, 2020 at 14:07
Okay :smile: I'll switch my language to Physics. I'll write more in the morning when I have some time and quiet. I get a bit on edge when it comes to ...
November 23, 2020 at 20:34
@"Gnomon" I took these excerpts you wrote in another thread because I'd like to touch on our commonalities and differences. Quoting you... "In my Enfo...
November 23, 2020 at 14:32