tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post7358981436943165305..comments2024-03-26T12:23:29.784-04:00Comments on Philosoraptor: Peirce: "Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed For Man"Winston Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-79628490450451544102018-01-06T09:24:49.535-05:002018-01-06T09:24:49.535-05:00I don't think P is targeting Kant especially, ...I don't think P is targeting Kant especially, nor the stuff in the Transcendental Aesthetic especially--though he's in the mix somewhere. The arguments of question 1 are usually taken to be mostly anti-Cartesian...though applicable to any view that holds that we have intuitions (direct, self-evident cognitions. Historically, he seems to have been thinking mainly of the "hundred Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-53121493400718170912018-01-06T01:12:53.192-05:002018-01-06T01:12:53.192-05:00But are these not problems:
1) Pierce is obtaini...But are these not problems:<br /><br />1) Pierce is obtaining universality for inductive reasoning by illicitly converting inductive reasoning into nothing less than a positively identified sound premise. I mean, if we reason by induction with the grab-bag example Pierce provides, we are, of necessity, not exhaustively examining all the balls in the bag. We are, instead, examining many of themThe Mystichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00813641115915460692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-35627885679680470532018-01-06T01:12:40.555-05:002018-01-06T01:12:40.555-05:00Ok, what am I missing?
In short, if I read correc...Ok, what am I missing?<br /><br />In short, if I read correctly what seems to me to be the most important part (Question 1), Pierce is arguing against Kant (and other, far less interesting arguments in favor of the faculty of intuition) by claiming to provide an alternative understanding of the synthetic process by which our universal and necessary propositions regarding time and space could be The Mystichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00813641115915460692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-4582073728633201382018-01-04T11:51:48.524-05:002018-01-04T11:51:48.524-05:00I concur. This is a wonderful piece of philosophy....I concur. This is a wonderful piece of philosophy. I love ruffling my fellow grad students' feathers by claiming that we do not have a faculty of intuition. <br /><br />I always say "appeals to intuition are just an attempt to codify assumptions we take for granted instead of giving arguments for them."<br /><br />I do not know if this is correct, but I think that it's an Critical Spiritshttp://thethirdformulation.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com