The A Priori World
Speaks 1st…
The
Global Inference Mechanics of Natural Self-Judgment and Decision; or At
Limit__Pure Self-Understanding…
“Two things here are all-important to assure
oneself of
and to
remember. The first is that a person is not absolutely
an
individual. His thoughts are what he is "saying to himself,"
that is, is
saying to that other self that is just coming into life in
the flow of
time. When one reasons, it is that critical self that
one is
trying to persuade; and all thought whatsoever is a sign,
and is
mostly of the nature of language. The second thing to
remember is
that the man's circle of society (however widely or
narrowly
this phrase may be understood), is a sort of loosely
compacted
person, in some respects of higher rank than
the person
of an individual organism." Charles S. Peirce
“The elements of every concept enter
into logical thought at the gate
of perception and make their exit at the gate of
purposive action;
and whatever cannot show its passports at both
those two gates
is to be arrested as unauthorized by reason.” C.
S. Peirce
“It is the central insight of the theory of
abduction that
there is no induction without a pre-existent
hypothesis
which has been inferred or constructed
abductively.” CP
Autodidact;
Polymath
9-25-45
to 2012
Meddybemps,
ME
7th
year member,
Camden
Philosophical Society,
Camden,
ME
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Abstract:
This paper
represents an explanation of the deepest mental mechanics, so far attempted, in
this author’s opinion, from his extensively researched overview, of all philosophical
history. The most modern thinking philosophers have stated, that a full
understanding of ‘abduction’ is
present philosophy’s most urgent task. Though many papers have been set forth
about this ‘deepest inner mechanics of
the hypothesis’, in recent years, it
is this author’s opinion, they all fall short of the entire truth necessary for
full a priori grounding__in experience, world and rationality__where the ‘psychical logic’ of epistemology and
phenomenology has not been thoroughly understood as having ‘independence of thought’, from the ‘psychological reasoning’ of our epistemologies__which has more
prevailed over the last 100 years. Since the loss of Charles Sanders Peirce’s exceptional
talents of helping the world understand the necessity of a ‘critical common-sense’ discrimination between psychological sense
and logical sense__where and whence both are truly and fully needed, but within
the scope of being within their proper places, interpretations and
understandings of__it is certainly in this author’s opinion, now necessary to
make amendments, which may further society’s abilities to possibly communicate more
successfully__again. It is the concluding opinion of this paper’s entire
thesis, that a properly understood__and full grounding of ideas__back into our
innate experiential and natural rational natures, can re-accomplish and
replenish what modern society so obviously has lost__and so desperately needs…
1.0_ Introduction:
As you may
have already surmised from the titles, quotes and abstract, much of what will
follow will include a deep exploration of the historical, as well as personal
and public differences between epistemology’s old philosophical arguments; and
arguments, here meant in a good investigative sense, about the major historical
differences between say, nominalism and realism, or more recently updated to
cognitive psychological epistemology and inner states of memory and working
memory__per say, and normative, nomological and logical epistemology and
intellectual rationality, of inner and outer memory, and inner working memory
states__along with the direct perception of both sides of these issues. Of
course this paper includes far wider and deeper descriptions by also stating
the positives and negatives of metaphysics and ontology, as well as the major
historical differences between nominalism, noumenalism, epiphenomenalism, and
phenomenalism, etc.__where even the ‘Scholastic’
era’s theology enters our historical experiences, as the bearers of these experiences
of all kinds, and even logic, science and maths, from the ancient worlds to the
modern__as they played an extremely important part, in any of our knowledge
advancements being what they are...
It is only
fair to state the author’s philosophical position as an experiential,
phenomenal realist__with the caveat that he has full knowledge of the necessity
of general psychology’s great gift, to positively-rhetorically relay the
information any more exacting scientific mind may think, write about and want
to persuade his neighbors of such merits__as may be discovered by his more
exacting scientific methods. The text will explain how a more eclectic
experiential-rational esthetic rhetoric may
be developed and used to bridge the many gaps known to presently exist between
say; ‘The Continental Schools’, ‘The Analytic Schools’, ‘The Pragmatic Schools’, ‘The Critical
Theory Schools’ and ‘The Theistic
Schools’ of thoughts and ill-functioning communications…
The author may further mention, he pays a great
tribute, not only to Charles Sanders Peirce, but to all history’s greatest
minds, and not only the philosophers, but the exact scientists, physicists,
psychologists and psychiatrists, mathematicians, historians, economists and
especially all the world’s greatest logicians and rhetoricians__as logic is the
main field of this author’s, and his many students’ choices of study, for over
some forty years of professional life. Just a few should maybe be
mentioned__the ones, or at the least__a few of the ones influencing this pen
the most; Some of the world’s ‘best’
universal/international, aggregate logical minds this author owes a great debt
to may just be__Heraclitus, Pythagoras, Eudoxus, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle,
Euclid, Archimedes, Cicero, Seneca, Boethius, Al-Biruni, Ibn Sina, Albertus Magnus,
Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, Jean Buridan, Nicholas De Cusa, Juan Vives, John
Wallis, Francis Bacon, Giordano Bruno, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Robert
Boyle, Baruch Spinoza, Christiaan Huygens, Hugo Grotius, John Locke, Isaac
Newton, Gottfried Leibnitz, Thomas Reid, Alexander Baumgarten, Immanuel Kant, George
Washington, John Marshall, Alexander Hamilton, Giambattista Vico, Bernard Bolzano,
Tom Paine, Évariste Galois, William
Whewell, Auguste Comte, J.C. Bose, S.W. Hamilton, W.R. Hamilton, George Boole, Augustus De Morgan, William K. Clifford, Alexander Bain,
R.H. Lotze, Charles S. Peirce, William Minto, Mark Twain, Christine Ladd-Franklin,
Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac, Max H. Fisch, S.N. Bose, Jan Lukasiewicz, J.M.
Keynes, Arthur Prior, Kurt GÖdel, Mikhail
Bakhtin, Clarence Lewis,
Alfred Tarski, John Wheeler, Joseph Ransdell, Roderick Chisholm, Nathan Houser,
Patrick Coppock, Phyllis Chiasson, Herbert Feigl, Hans Jonas, Peter McLaughlin,
Nicholas Rescher, Jay Zeman, James R. Wible, John Sowa, K.O. Apel, Irving Anellis,
Sami Paavola, T.L. Short, Joseph Brent, Fernando Zalamea, Ahti Pietarinen, Susan
Haack, Albert Casullo,
Joseph L. Esposito, Theodora Achourioti, and
Igor Naletov, Daniel
Andler, etc…(just a short list) As
you may have noticed, some listed are not of Peirce’s choices, but this author
has his reasons__and no slight is meant to the many other great minds of
history, not mentioned…
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