Nick, No criticism intended. We're all the same in so many ways.
Frank ----------------------------------- Frank Wimberly My memoir: https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly My scientific publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 Phone (505) 670-9918 On Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 10:52 PM Nick Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Dear Frank, > > > > We octogenarian former academics have to do what we can. Lacking > laboratories, libraries, secretaries graduate students, seminars, colloquia > and all the other joys of academic life, the one thing we CAN do is buy a > few books and study them carefully. So that’s what I do. FRIAM has helped > me stay alive as a mind by humoring me as I come to terms with Peirce. > Thanks to you all. > > > > Nick > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > > Clark University > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > > *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Frank > Wimberly > *Sent:* Monday, April 15, 2019 6:24 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Everything she knows... > > > > I don't know you en vivo, Marcus, but do you deny that there exists > something that you worship or are you saying that there are no people who > worship nothing? I am tempted to write that in predicate calculus. In my > experience some people worship science as the royal road to the truth. > Nick's attachment to Peirce reminds me of some religious people's behavior, > including quoting scripture. I have a similar relationship to > psychoanalytic theory. I agree with you that La Mott meant that the > conventional religions were not the only options when she mentioned the > Muffin and St. Bob (Dylan). > > > > (I used to work in the Research Center in Child Psychiatry at the > University of Pittsburgh. The Department of Psychiatry at that time was > dominated by psychoanalysts.) > > > > Frank > > ----------------------------------- > Frank Wimberly > > My memoir: > https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly > > My scientific publications: > https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 > > Phone (505) 670-9918 > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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