[WikiEN-l] Exit Interview -- Jon Awbrey

Fri Jun 30 16:08:46 UTC 2006

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Citing cases of "Priority Inversion" -- feel free to call it what you will --
in this case being a situation where a few editors declare their "consensus"
as an excuse for deleting relevant and sourced information.

Case 3.

Article:  Charles Peirce.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Peirce

Section:  Peirce's philosophy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Peirce#Peirce.27s_philosophy 

Edit:  Revision as of 15:17, 11 June 2006 by LogicMan
(-> Peirce's philosophy - delete quote. see talk)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Peirce&diff=next&oldid=57973984

Quotation deleted by "new user" LogicMan (incept date 7 June 2006).
The explanation given by LogicMan on the talk page is as follows:

| This quote is being removed because it is just one expert
| scoring a point off of others.  The point it makes is made
| just below it more briefly anyway.
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| | It is not sufficiently recognized that Peirce’s career was
| | that of a scientist, not a philosopher;  and that during his
| | lifetime he was known and valued chiefly as a scientist, only
| | secondly as a logician, and scarcely at all as a philosopher.
| | Even his work in philosophy and logic will not be understood
| | until this fact becomes a standing premise of Peircian studies.
| | (Max Fisch, in (Moore and Robin 1964, 486).
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| --[[User:LogicMan|LogicMan]] 15:16, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

The quotation is from Max Fisch, a premier Peirce scholar.
It was was added by another editor late in 2005.  It makes
an important observation, it is relevant, and sourced.  The
justification that LogicMan gives is partly speculative POV
and partly false, as the same point is not made just below it.
At any rate, there was no real discussion of its pertinence, and
no attempt to arrive at anything approaching a local consensus.

Jon Awbrey

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