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Will D. Campbell RIP

Received this morning from John Egerton.

June 4, 2013

Dear Friends of Will,

Last night at shortly past 10 o’clock, our beloved father-brother-friend and champion of the unsung slipped peacefully from his gathered family in Room 331 at Richland Place. His condition had been declining gradually for the past month, and turned suddenly critical over the weekend. Brenda and their three children—Penny, Webb, Bonnie—and Bonnie’s son, Harlan, the eldest of the four grandchildren, were all with him throughout most of Monday, reconciled to his approaching death, knowing that it was time. He had fought for two years to recover from the May 2011 stroke that disabled him, and he was weary of the struggle. In a last act of benevolence, Will spared them all the anguish of a long and traumatic last watch. For him and for his family, his departure was not a cry of despair; it was more like a whispered sigh of relief. Finally, he is at peace.

His remains will be cremated. Sometime later this month, there will be a gathering in remembrance of Will here in Nashville. As soon as the date and time have been decided, I will send the information to you. Brenda and the entire brood asked me to convey to you each and all their deep feelings of gratitude for your countless expressions of love and support down through the past months,


Peace be with you,


John

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"My language is the sum total of myself."

"My language is the sum total of myself." Thus Charles Sanders Peirce. I find this impossible to believe for reasons I assign to Charles Sanders Peirce. I suppose if ones inner dialogue was included, then the notion might be true. But since we are talking about language we are assuming a hearer, a community, a point at which myself either becomes meaningless or seeps into the crevices of others in the way that "honor is a scutcheon" or "quality" as Pirsig means it seeps into me. Peirce clearly suggests that the individual has aspects of figmenthood. That we trail off and even that we might one day amalgamate. I think at the end of a long day of cogitation at Arisbe, the conversation might move in such a direction. But then ...

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CORE originated Freedom Rides in 1947

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The url above leads to an interesting PDF - a pamphlet about the Freedom Rides of the 1060s. One of the authors was a friend, Robert McAffee Brown. If you read the pamphlet you will get a taste of what it was like back then and perhaps some insight into the ongoing struggle combat racism and sectarianism in the US.

The question whether we individuals are signs

Seems to me that the pragmatic maxim answers the question whether we individuals are signs, whether human being and words are identical. Everything we think or sense, when it becomes conscious, becomes something else. It collides with a confining element. In some cases it is a word itself that confines what was an amorphous something. The pragmatic maxim says that it is the end result of the triadic process that can be said to be the whole of it. That end is an action in the form of a conclusion or intention or an actual doing of something. If this is correct the identity is not between man and word, Word is a utility like will that assists in the process of moving from sign icon through index to symbol which is the third and which in this sense is the whole matter. I append my usual thought - but what do I know?

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We still blame our failure to communicate on the deity.

Wouldn't it be enough to prove that all human beings regardless share the same language? The reason the ancients conjured up Babel was to blame our failure to communicate on the deity. We have enough of that failure right here in the USA to understand the problem. But in fact philosophy itself has helped perpetuate the sense that we cannot, or even should not, communicate. I am hoping the emergence of cyber-connectivity will lift the blame from the deity to where it belongs and that we can propound those things that are truly universal on the basis of some agreement about what actually counts. Such as tolerance, democracy. helpfulness and non-idolatry, the inferred ontological universal values of Triadic Philosophy.

The dominant and regressive lords of the economy

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Small world. I've argued this since I studied with Doxiadis before the Generals ravaged Greece and before Christopher Alexander began to talk about pattern language. Density. Population explosion silliness. Make no mistake, the dominant and regressive lords of the economy are the same people who are ginning up racism on the right. They support nice philanthropies and ravage the environment with impunity. And even our better leaders applaud because tepid growth is better for them than honest reckoning with the gathering storm. I have known the minority status situation since my days as a civil rights participant in the South. The true enemy is bad values. Tolerance, democracy, helpfulness and non-idolatry will win this century only if we see that they are indeed the universal impulses that have powered positive change since the earliest appearance of consciousness on the planet. Make this the century in which the world tips in their direction.

Psychology must mean at least two things.

Psychology must mean at least two things. First the myriad theories regarding it. But also the tricks we can play in musement itself that have a higher place in our cosmos and yet relate to psychology as phenomena. For example to me two events are never necessarily discrete or separated in the sense of their being unable to segue or contact or interact with one another. But they do so in mind. Memory kicks in of course and that makes the whole thing even more confused. An exception to me is relationships that have substantial chronological separation. I am almost never the sort to say how you've changed. I feel I can pick up just where whatever was happening was happening. In other words time in this sense means little and lacks the power to separate. The effect of such a collision on consciousness might be substantial and on action resulting. Still I am fully aware that the reality I am evoking is no contradiction whatsoever of the inexorability of time and its chronological movement in a single direction. Nietzsche was wrong about eternal return taken literally but right about amor fati. I am thinking what we call psychology is simply a utility we possess to play in reality.

Time and Space in Triadic Philosophy

My sense, and I do not presume to suggest it is Peirce's, is that time and space may operate in a way compatible with the theories but this does not alter the point I would make.

Time is a consistent continuous motion that actually does exist universally, that all the universe is involved in it, while space manifestly is always changing merely because of the movements growths and diminishings within it.

In my world, the space in this room is changeable but the hours that have passed since rising and now have passed and that is what I understand continuity to relate most to.

Another way to put this would be to say that space functions within time and that time remains the consistent and predictable constant, continuous, inexorable and distinct.

Triadic Philosophy

Perplexity or What Am I Doing Here?

Perplexity is the next thing to vacation
Seen as a giving up of what one sought to have
You can assume that without any sense of response
The dominoes of hope will start to fall

Some Statements from Triadic Philosophy

Jesus implied that we should pardon all debts.

The basis of seeking the pardoning of our debts is that we pardon the debts of others.

Jesus seems to regard tests or trials as something to be avoided if possible.

Jesus's idea of grace includes asking and receiving.

Jesus' idea of grace includes seeking and finding.

Jesus' notion of grace involves knocking and having doors open to you.

Grace always involves prior asking, seeking and knocking.

To underline his universal concept of grace, Jesus affirms that everyone who seeks receives it.

Jesus finds an analogy to Abba's grace in the behavior of human beings who respond when asked.



Triadic Philosophy