[Inquiry] Re: Actual, Existent, Real -- Discussion -- Correction

[Jon Awbrey]

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AER.  Discussion Note 9

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Joe's remarks about the role of re-creative abduction in hermeneutics
and the recursory need to refresh the screen of one's personal window
are very apt, but there are persistent wrinkles that are not smoothed
away by those means alone, if you don't mind my mushwork of metaphors
too much.  One of these hitches is that of reading a text through the
not-quite-transparency of a default philosophy that is insufficiently
reflected on from alternative points of view.  I remember a course in
comparative religion where we read bits of Frazer and Tyler that were
used to exemplify a particular brand of ethnocentrism, one which took
the features of one's favorite religion as the end point of evolution,
using that outlook as a standard for the ranking of every other faith.
This is the kind of non-encounter that we keep running into with many
of the so-called readings of Peirce, most recently where a minor node
of coincidence with the default doctrine is exalted as a major trophe,
all the while neglecting the turning points of its genuine revolution.

Jon Awbrey

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