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Simple concepts applicable to every subject

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I am sure it may be wrong to post this. My reason is that the closing quote below is so common and often lacks the context of the surrounding words. So I will risk repetition anyway. The more I read, the more I think that C. P. really did mean to confine things as suggested in the final sentence below and that the rest is ...

"Aristotle builded upon a few deliberately chosen concepts -- such as matter and form, act and power -- very broad, and in their outlines vague and rough, but solid, unshakable, and not easily undermined; and thence it has come to pass that Aristotelianism is babbled in every nursery, that "English Common Sense," for example, is thoroughly peripatetic, and that ordinary men live so completely within the house of the Stagyrite that whatever they see out of the windows appears to them incomprehensible and metaphysical. Long it has been only too manifest that, fondly habituated though we be to it, the old structure will not do for modern needs; and accordingly, under Descartes, Hobbes, Kant, and others, repairs, alterations, and partial demolitions have been carried on for the last three centuries. One system, also, stands upon its own ground; I mean the new Schelling-Hegel mansion, lately run up in the German taste, but with such oversights in its construction that, although brand new, it is already pronounced uninhabitable. The undertaking which this volume inaugurates is to make a philosophy like that of Aristotle, that is to say, to outline a theory so comprehensive that, for a long time to come, the entire work of human reason, in philosophy of every school and kind, in mathematics, in psychology, in physical science, in history, in sociology, and in whatever other department there may be, shall appear as the filling up of its details. The first step toward this is to find simple concepts applicable to every subject." †2

Peirce: CP 1.2 Cross-Ref:††

It is impossible to define g-d

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It is impossible to define g-d just as it is impossible to define science or anything else. All words represent signs which we believe to be universal. But their definitions remain a mystery and the best we can do is deduce or infer from actual experience. For this reason the only form in which g-d can be accessed is by inner experience which may reflect general and universal aspects but which is specific to the individual or group that can document the experience. The same is true of science. It is only in the measured reality of actuality - in actual physical proof that science is either borne out or shown to be, if not imperfect, fallible. All sides of the religion debate are in error if they believe we can do more than Moses was able to do when he inquired who the deity was. The reply he got was I am who I am and I will be who I will be. Everything else is a representation and this is true mainly because we exist in time and the grammar of the statement recognizes that.

The Most Important Message You May Ever Read

Daily forgiveness is the only way 

our world will move beyond its evil sway

This is not kumbya and wimpy stuff 

This is hard-nosed 

We've had enough

"Forgive the wrongs 

that we have done 

as we forgive those 

who do wrong"

"Forgive the wrongs 

that we have done 

as we forgive those 

who do wrong"

These words 

a universal prayer 

breed freedom 

power 

love 

and care

This is our contract 

with Reality 

A new start daily 

A new liberty

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Patriotism - An Independence Day Reflection

All nomads of the universe unite on one thing 

We serve no one on this earth 

The one we serve says 

I am who I am 

And it is by this one we measure worth

The highest worth is non-idolatry 

We value every person equally

We value helpfulness democracy 

We value tolerance we stand on these

And if our nation values as we do 

then to our nation we give value too

And when our nation turns the other way 

we work to bring about a better day

All violence and hate we seek to rout 

It's Abba's way we seek to bring about

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We are the nomads of the universe

We are the nomads of the universe 

Creeds and messiahs have no hold 

Our Yes has freed us from the primal curse 

We can't be bought we can't be sold

We are the nomads of the universe 

Our Jesus is the bearer of good news 

Whose message is the end of war 

So we all vain engagements do refuse 

From now on we shall fight no more

We are the nomads of the universe 

We do not seek to rule the Public Square 

Only Abba rules you and me 

We nomads of the universe are there 

Our eyes reveal that we are free

We are the nomads of the universe 

Living for Abba say no more 

We seek no fame we seek no bulging purse 

Abba is all we're living for

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This from Peirce gets to the heart of things for me just now

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This from Peirce gets to the heart of things for me just now: 

§5. SCIENCE AS A GUIDE TO CONDUCT

            55. We have seen how success in mathematics would necessarily create a confidence altogether unfounded in man's power of eliciting truth by inward meditation without any aid from experience. Both its confidence in what is within and the absolute certainty of its conclusions lead to the confusion of a priori reason with conscience. For conscience, also, refuses to submit its dicta to experiment, and makes an absolute dual distinction between right and wrong. One result of this is that men begin to rationalize about questions of purity and integrity, which in the long run, through moral decay, is unfavorable to science. But what is worse, from our point of view, they begin to look upon science as a guide to conduct, that is, no longer as pure science but as an instrument for a practical end. One result of this is that all probable reasoning is despised. If a proposition is to be applied to action, it has to be embraced, or believed without reservation. There is no room for doubt, which can only paralyze action. But the scientific spirit requires a man to be at all times ready to dump his whole cart-load of beliefs, the moment experience is against them. The desire to learn forbids him to be perfectly cocksure that he knows already. Besides positive science can only rest on experience; and experience can never result in absolute certainty, exactitude, necessity, or universality. But it is precisely with the universal and necessary, that is, with Law, that [con]science concerns itself. Thus the real character of science is destroyed as soon as it is made an adjunct to conduct; and especially all progress in the inductive sciences is brought to a standstill. 

Peirce: CP 1.55 Cross-Ref:††