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Nikkibar at aol.com
Mon Apr 29 10:48:11 EDT 2002
In a message dated 4/28/02 2:26:56 PM Central Daylight Time,
piat1 at bellsouth.net writes:
>
> Dear Nikki, Karen, Folks-
>
> Although some Peirce scholars disagree with his self assessment, the
> intellectually recalcitrant Chomsky has credited Peirce as a philosopher he
> is close to in his own thinking about mind and thought. I think somewhere
> Percy says, perhaps somewhat facetiously, that he (Percy himself) only took
> one percent of Peirce and bent it to his own purposes (presumably Christian
> apologetics). Something Peirce seemed to do a bit of himself.
>
> At least those are my non own scholarly impressions as a casual reader of
> all three.
>
> Best,
> Jim Piat
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> >>
>>
>> In response to your question insofar as it relates to Charles Peirce and
>> Choamski, Walker was very pro the former and con the latter.
>>
>> Nikki --
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Dear Jim,
Yes, the partial use of CSP by Walker is discussed at length in the letters
between Walker and Ken Ketner in A Thief of Peirce, (hence the title of the
book) but later on Walker seems to have confirmed his nearly entire embrace
of Pragmaticism in the Jefferson Lecture.
Nikki
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