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Tenacity, Authority, Plausibility, Inquiry

Re: Peter Cameron My favorite polymathematician, Charles Sanders Peirce, gave a fourfold classification of what he called “methods of fixing belief”, or “settling opinion”, most notably and seminally in his paper, “The Fixation of Belief” (1877). Adjusting his nomenclature very … Continue reading

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Definition and Determination : 8

Replies to Comments on the Peirce List Re: Jim Willgoose The most general meaning of “formal” is “concerned with form”, but the Latin “forma” can mean “beauty” in addition to “form”, so perhaps a normative “goodness of form” enters at … Continue reading

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Definition and Determination : 6

Replies to Comments on the Peirce List Re: Gary Fuhrman The following two passages may help to clarify Peirce’s admittedly peculiar usage of “formal” in this context. • C.S. Peirce • Objective Logic • C.S. Peirce • Logic as Semiotic … Continue reading

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Knowledge Workers of the World, Unite❢

Comments on Gowers’s Weblog Post 1. What’s wrong with electronic journals? Comment 1.1 Having spent a good part of the 1990s writing about what the New Millennium would bring to our intellectual endeavours, it is only fair that I should … Continue reading

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