Alan Manning, a linguist and novelist, and an active participant in the discussion forum PEIRCE-L, has provided us with a portal to a fictional world in which Peirce is the daimonic or guiding spirit. It asks us to:
"Suppose that Peirce's theories are rediscovered, and
become the basis for human civilization for the next thousand years.... How will
Paul Bolton, a TV addict but also a 20th-century humanist who has disavowed the
very concept of knowable truth, come to terms with Peirce's maxim?-- "Truth
crushed to earth will rise again." (and again, and again, and again)-- Bolton's only hope lies in the fact that truth is really no stranger to fiction"
This philosophical novel is presented to us through still another imaginative portal: a website that is itself a marvel of construction and content that introduces Peirce through his category theory at the same time that it provides an explanation and generous preview of Manning's novel. Be sure to click on the images that run across the top of the cover picture of his book to access the riches of the website.
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