Peter P. Jones wrote: (01)
>. . .It does get rather tricky when two proponents each believe
>they have sound reasons for believing that the other's theory is
>defeasible, and perhaps there are places in the system of reason
>where such standoffs are always possible, because different agents
>will always have discrepancies between their situated justification
>sets grounding justified beliefs.
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So, Peter, I guess one had best be true to at least himself. (02)
OK, I promise that this is my final Peirce quote of the week,
but I think for me it's a little bit like this (at least I hope that it is): (03)
> Peirce: CP 7.595
> Each man has his own peculiar character. It enters into all he
> does. It is in his consciousness and not a mere mechanical trick, and
> therefore it is [ . . . an idea] cognition; but as it enters into all
> his cognition, it is [an idea] of things in general. It is therefore
> the man's philosophy, his way of regarding things; not a philosophy of
> the head alone -- but one which pervades the whole man. This
> idiosyncrasy is the idea of the man; and if this idea is true he lives
> forever; if false, his individual soul has but a contingent existence. (04)
That's about as *mystical* as this very scientific man, Peirce, ever
gets. You also wrote: (05)
>[PJ] Is it possible to experience unique grounds for belief that cannot be
>communicated, I wonder? An aggregate of perceptual nuances, or an
>abnormal talent, perhaps.
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My sense is it is not so possible, except perhaps in the realm of
religion, or art, or
aesthetics--in the ordinary sense :-) Otherwise I think we need each
other as correctives
to each other, and this is how I think of and teach critical thinking,
as akin to experimental method, where
we throw out our best ideas and see if they seem reasonable to the
group. (For example, in a collaboratory I
hope that the group will agree to experiment with my *hypothesis*,
actually test it in a real world
situation.) (06)
Gary (07)
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