Monthly Archives: June 2017

{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Discussion 3

Posted on June 29, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • John Sowa I gave Frederik Stjernfelt’s Natural Propositions a careful reading back when the Peirce List took it up.  The following archive links will take you to the topic thread and initial post. Peirce List • Frederik Stjernfelt … Continue reading →

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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Discussion 2

Posted on June 28, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • John Sowa JFS: A more fundamental term is proposition, which is informally defined as the “meaning” of a sentence.  That meaning is usually analyzed as comprehension (also known as intension) and extension. The easier-on-the-eyes blog copy of my … Continue reading →

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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Discussion 1

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

A puzzle in Peirce I have puzzled over for as long as I can remember involves the relationship between his theory of signs, marking the characters of icons, indices, and symbols, and his theory of inquiry, bearing the three inferences … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 17

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • JA • GF • JFS • JLRC • JA • JFS • GF A rather amusing, if slightly ominous illustration of the point I am trying to make here has just popped up in the … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 16

Posted on June 25, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • JA • JFS JFS: For those of us who are trying to convince modern students to study Peirce, we need to become bilingual.  We need to show how his terminology and notations map to and … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 15

Posted on June 24, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • JA • GF One could hardly dispute the importance of logical implication relations like   Their set-theoretic analogues are subset relations like which are almost the canonical way of expressing constraint, determination, information, and so on.  … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 14

Posted on June 24, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • JA • JFS We find ourselves at the thresh-old of yet another recurring discussion, this time concerning Peirce’s use of the adjectives formal and quasi-necessary with normative connotations, all of which I think is clear … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 13

Posted on June 22, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

I would like to return to a point where the paths of discussion began to diverge and then bifurcated so chaotically that I could not track them further, namely, here: Re: Peirce List Discussion • JA • GF • JA … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 12

Posted on June 20, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • Kirsti Määttänen I have a sense of what Peirce meant by the “Logic of Science” and what Dewey meant by calling Logic the “Theory of Inquiry”.  If that’s logic in the narrow sense and not … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 11

Posted on June 17, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • KM • JA • JFS The most important difference between linguistics and logic is that linguistics is descriptive while logic is normative. Yes, some grammarians try to treat grammar as prescriptive, but most in modern … Continue reading →

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