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13 Post author: PhilGoetz 25 August 2015 02:09PM

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Comment author: SanguineEmpiricist 26 August 2015 05:06:22AM 3 points [-]

Just to be clear, when reading any of Charles Sanders Pierce i have never gotten a hint of "Charlatanism". Including Peirce among those names amounts to blasphemy.

Comment author: grouchymusicologist 26 August 2015 02:21:45PM 4 points [-]

Well, exactly. That's what I meant when I said that it was very confusing to me, as a young grad student in an outside field, to have a course that assigned Peirce and Lacan side by side with a straight face, evidently taking them equally seriously.