Monthly Archives: August 2012

To Avoid The Abyss

Posted on August 25, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

We have come to the edge of a moral abyss. The abyss is telling us — “Stop.  Do not go this way.  Turn and go another way.” A simple message.  Easy to obey.  But there may be other forces in … Continue reading →

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When It Reigns It Poors

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Corporate-owned financial institutions pull off the most massive theft of the Common Wealth in American history and the corporate-owned media wring their hands about the “economic downturn”. We are told it’s time for “austerity measures” and “shared sacrifice” — all … Continue reading →

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 1

Posted on August 16, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Here are several excursions I made into the subjects of Abduction, Deduction, Induction, and Analogy, comparing Peirce’s first formulations with those in Aristotle and focusing on the ways these patterns of inference fit into the Cycle of Inquiry.  Much of … Continue reading →

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i write in order to remember myself

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

just so i don’t forget

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C.S. Peirce • New Elements (Καινὰ Στοιχεῖα) : Comment 1

Posted on August 11, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • (1) • (2) Re: C.S. Peirce • New Elements (Καινὰ Στοιχεῖα) : 1 Interest in the reading of Peirce’s “New Elements” appears to be flagging of late, so I thought I might spice things up … Continue reading →

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C.S. Peirce • New Elements (Καινὰ Στοιχεῖα) : 1

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Selections from C.S. Peirce, “New Elements (Καινὰ Στοιχεῖα)” Editors’ Headnote from The Essential Peirce, Volume 2 MS 517.  [First published in NEM 4:235–63.  This document was most probably written in early 1904, as a preface to an intended book on … Continue reading →

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Light in the Clearing

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

I will keep returning to my core values. I will keep speaking from the center of my experience. Disorder all around me? — What does it matter? As long as there is order in my mind, As long as my … Continue reading →

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Higher Order Sign Relations • 1

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

When interpreters reflect on their use of signs they require an appropriate technical language in which to pursue the reflections.  They need signs referring to sign relations, signs referring to elements and components of sign relations, and signs referring to … Continue reading →

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