SUO: Re: Epi*Questions
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[Reposted after 2 hours]
Chris Angus wrote:
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> > JS = Jon Awbrey
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> I don't think so
Chris,
Unohoo, as usual, has the most apt words on this score,
that I recently had occasion to share once more with all
the good ganglia of the Global Brain, and so I will again
share and share them here:
Subj: Re: one identity or many?
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 19:42:05 -0500
From: Jon Awbrey <jawbrey@att.net>
To: Global Brain <gbrain@listserv.vub.ac.be>
globrain listers,
one of my favorite quotes from c.s. peirce along these lines:
http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2003-October/000889.html
jon awbrey
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| Two things here are all-important to assure oneself of
| and to remember. The first is that a person is not
| absolutely an individual. His thoughts are what
| he is "saying to himself", that is, is saying
| to that other self that is just coming into
| life in the flow of time. When one reasons,
| it is that critical self that one is trying
| to persuade; and all thought whatsoever is a
| sign, and is mostly of the nature of language.
| The second thing to remember is that the man's
| circle of society (however widely or narrowly
| this phrase may be understood), is a sort of
| loosely compacted person, in some respects of
| higher rank than the person of an individual
| organism. It is these two things alone that
| render it possible for you -- but only in
| the abstract, and in a Pickwickian sense --
| to distinguish between absolute truth
| and what you do not doubt.
|
| C.S. Peirce, 'Collected Papers', CP 5.421.
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| Charles Sanders Peirce, "What Pragmatism Is",
|'The Monist', Volume 15, 1905, pages 161-181,
| Also in the 'Collected Papers', CP 5.411-437.
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