I think Peirce is getting at something a bit different. When Peirce is on
good behavior, he is laying out The World According to The Scientist. When
a Scientist says that some claim is "true" she means that future studies
will continue to support the claim. Perhaps even a bit more than that, as
she
Thanks, Eric,
I think you have everything right here, and it is very well laid out. Thank
you.
One point that nobody seems to quite want to help me get a grip on is the
grammar of the two terms. True seems to apply only to propositions, while real
only to nouns. Now the way we get a
Wouldn't it make more sense to say real things are subjects of true
propositions of the form "x is real".
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Frank Wimberly
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Thanks, Frank. I thought at first that was a cheat, but it seems to work,
actually. It makes The Real dependent on The True, which is how Peirce thinks
it should be.
I guess that’s why they paid you the big bucis.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and B
