Re: Is Glen a Pragmatist?

Posted by gepr on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Is-Glen-a-Pragmatist-tp7597725p7597726.html

Yes, I do like that appendage and hadn't read it. Thanks.

I've been accused of Hegelianism more than once, the most stark in a conversation about how to best model the diffusion of innovation, wherein I played the Adversary to an assumption that the concepts of self-organization in physics extend to social systems. But I'm pretty sure I reject (what I infer from) the phrase "self-correcting". I would prefer "sticks close to something" or "fidelity", which may mean make it *sound* like I'm more Piercian than Hegelian. But the truth is I'm agnostic through and through.

I'm a real-life Towlie:  https://youtu.be/1Y_7P9Ce9Uc

On 7/9/20 2:02 PM, [hidden email] wrote:
> I thought Glen might like this:
>
> This Hegelian view is virtually identical with the so-called epistemological fallibilism (more on which later in this essay) that occupied such a prominent position in Peirce's thinking. For Peirce, /every/ intellectual position is open to criticism and further investigation. Thus for both Peirce and Hegel there is /no/ final, fixed intellectual position free from any potential for being revised; and the processes of revision are in the long run self-correcting.
>
> It’s from https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce/self-contextualization.html
>
> Although, come to think of it, he might disagree with the part after the semi-colon;  i.e., he might belief that science is a random walk.
>
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