Mapping the Medium

Two words used to describe living consciousness.

' Perception' and 'Responsiveness' are two words used to define 'Consciousness'. There is nothing I can find that says this is confined to an individu...

Perhaps it would serve us to review the definition or definitions of 'consciousness'.

Ok. I'm glad you have this forum to express your ideas and interpretations of the Weltanschauung and its emergence via semiosis. Isn't it wonderful?! ...

In light of synechism (continuity), and the necessity of 'otherness' in the process of semiosis, ... 'emergence' clearly is of an organic nature. No m...

I agree with everything you've said. You and Peirce actually have quite a bit in common. Your 'Complementarity' has much in common with the 'Continuit...

Thank you for your insight, Gnomon. :smile: This is a subject I have been studying and am very interested in. I think this is excellent evidence of th...

When Peirce was at Johns Hopkins, he actually chastised Dewey for not understanding negation. It's my understanding that instead of 'rejection', negat...

“Mad Hatter: Would you like a little more tea? Alice: Well, I haven't had any yet, so I can't very well take more." How can there be anything without ...

I've studied Heraclitus for years, and it took me a while to understand how he related his Unity of Opposites to how things change. It's important to ...

I haven't had time to find the source about Peirce and his interest in the Trinity. I will post it when I have a chance to look it up. It was a site d...

"Listening not to me but to the Logos it is wise to agree that all things are one." - Heraclitus “Couples are things whole and things not whole, what ...

Agreed.

I'm glad. :) Perhaps you understand now why I had to take an unconventional approach to introducing myself here. There's no easy way to just put all o...

Not at all. Although I was baptized Lutheran, my parents were not church goers. My paternal grandmother came from a family of German Lutheran immigran...

Max H. Fisch wrote extensively about Peirce. As a member of the Charles S. Peirce Society, I have also really enjoyed reading comparison paper after p...

Back to the Logos.... This term was used centuries before Jesus, and Christians (as good sales people do with references) used a familiar term to appl...

See if you can read page 6 on that Google books link I posted above. That should shed some light on the topic.

I have led philosophy discussion groups on Peirce. I found that one of the most fascinating things to help others understand about his logic is in how...

Of course. I like that one too. :) I recently purchased 'Kosmos Noetos'. A friend told me they found a pdf version online somewhere. It was a special ...

Clearly there was a reason Peirce attended the Episcopal Church, a midway between Catholic and Protestant. Very different from Lutheranism. I have stu...

I will get back to you with the citation. Again, I was trying to relate this to something Gregory might understand. I have good citations. Part of Pei...

You might consider reading Mikhail Bakhtin's 'Toward a Philosophy of the Act'. Peirce and Bakhtin had much in common. And there are references to prop...

Yes. I realize that. I was only trying to relate it to something Gregory might understand. .. Peirce said that he and Spinoza had much in common

The world is full of people who don't like other people because they don't understand them. Perhaps this will help, Gregory. Watch this very easy to u...

For you to see the color, it takes you and the flowers, plus the other sensory aspects of the medium at the time you are looking at them. The color is...

Agreed.

Perhaps examining the science of color might shed some light on this..... "The interdisciplinary field of animal coloration is growing rapidly, spanni...

This is a favorite video on my educational playlist ('My Freedom from Nominalism Worldview'). ... Rocco Gangle does an EXCELLENT job of explaining Spi...

We recognize subject only in relation to object. A world of verbs and adjectives, so to speak. This is why we have no memories of early development. O...

I voted climate change, but would have voted 'nominalism' if it was on the list. I believe it to be the root cause of most of those problems.

Agreed. Agreed. Agreed. I deliberately mixed up the terms 'semiotics' and 'semiosis' in order to point to the points you already made. It is a sad sha...

Science has found through studies of brain development that the prenatal brain develops as a combination of decoding genetic and epigenetic informatio...

Speaking of mathematicians/physicists named Bell, I recognize another oddity in the way that John Stewart Bell's (Bell's Theorem) is interpreted by no...

On this page of Eric Temple Bell's book, he explains that a map (he's referring to mathematics here) is isomorphic, and not the real thing, as are the...

I'm going to do some digging into these pages of Eric Temple Bell's book 'Nemurology'. I won't be back here for a while, but feel free to look through...

Chill, my dear. :wink: There really is a reason to my rhyme. Time is a juggling act for me, hence my putting some questions out for 'contemplation', n...

In the meantime.... I'll throw these questions out for contemplation... 1) Do you think that consciousness is 'real'? 2) If so, do you think it can be...

Metaphysician Undercover and Aletheist... Thank you. These are exactly the topics I came here to dig deeper into. I appreciate it very much. I will re...

Again, Peter Adamson of King's College London does an excellent job explaining this in the video on Duns Scotus that I referenced earlier.

Scotus also conducted his work in Aristotelian fashion. But his 'Univocity of Being' carried a realism aspect.

I look at Peirce's work throughout his years and in the context of the time and mindset. I never said he followed Scotus precisely, but Scotus motivat...

When taken in context to what he was up against, yes he referred to it as extreme, no doubt.

I will say that in my studies I have come across nominalists who try to align themselves with aspects of Peirce. Just look at what William James did w...

Peirce's view is described as "nuanced realism". It is realism of a different stripe, for sure.

Agreed

Scotus..... - Agrees with Abelard that Unity is transcendental. - Denies whatever is 'one' is an individual. - Asserts that there is a kind of Unity t...

I do have my answer for you. I haven't forgotten. Running late for my work day, but I will get it to you within a couple of hours.

Reading Peirce is difficult. Here is an audio version of 'The Fixation of Belief". It might be easier to digest, and you can listen to it while you ar...

Thank you. Yes, it's been a learning curve, trying to develop audio properly, and find the sweet spot of the best way to reach the most general audien...