[Inquiry] Re: Attribute, Impute, Represent -- Discussion

[Jon Awbrey]

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AIR.  Discussion Note 13

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JA = Jon Awbrey
JR = Joe Ransdell

Re: AIR-COM 1.  http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-April/thread.html#2565
In: AIR-COM.    http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-April/002565.html

JR: In the message below, Jon Awbrey says, in conclusion:

JA: It is critically important, that is, indispensable
    for the sake of logic, to understand the difference
    between an attribute of something and an attribute
    attributed to something.

JR: Yes, that is the difference between an internal quality
    and an imputed quality.  So far we seem to be in agreement.
    What then?

Joe, Jim, Ben, Tom, and List ...

Then I think it will do us some good to balance our (meta^k)-discussions
with some additional reading of the primary sources.  I have my acquired
and grounded expectations that lead me to attribute and to impute overall
consistency and continuity to Peirce's work, but I really have no fixed
and immutable positions on these scores, and so far Joe has done more to
sway me in the direction of Tom's developmental thesis than Tom's initial
paper did.  But I remain not yet convinced.  I realize that part of the
reason for this is that I tend to read what Peirce made explicit in his
"Logic of Relatives" of 1870 into these earlier writings, where he is
in fact operating more like the classical sage and medieval scholastic
in trying to torture a logic or relatives from the absolute biases of
our pre-historically radiated and naturally selected languages.
I admire his ability to pick up carry these traditions one more
relentless step, but I fear that the average reader will be
hopelessly mired in mere admiration without the utilities
of a genuine calculus to clear the air and make further
progress possible.  But I will persist for a while in
trying to attend to the gradgrindstones out of which
such a calculus may in good time, and I dare say
iconoclastically, be broken.

Jon Awbrey

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