Levi’s take on the Peirce question

You can read it HERE.

He’s more patient with this medium than I am. On the one hand there’s the flak from people who pretty clearly haven’t read anything other than my blog posts. On the other hand there are people who claim to have read my books twice, but who still think I hold that time is a background in which objects move around. I don’t even know what to say to that, having slept on it. Prince of Networks is pretty clearly written, I think.

In any case, the fruitful exchanges in this medium are vastly overshadowed by all the oneupmanship, much of it based on claims that make very little sense.

There are plenty of things to do in a conversation besides affirm or negate. Just watch yourself in any normal human conversation and you’ll see what I mean. But in the blogosphere people seem in a rush to negate, perhaps because they assume that affirming is the only other option, and maybe that seems dull or obsequious to them. However, the endless parade of minus signs is really tiresome.