Re: FB | Ecology of Systems Thinking • Richard Saunders
I’m about to be diverted for a couple of weeks but this is an ever-ongoing question so I know I’ll be coming back to it again. The short shrift goes a bit like this —
The gist of the idea that Peirce dubbed the pragmatic maxim is really a mathematical principle that has always been hard to render in ordinary language, largely due to the Procrustean subject-predicate embeddings most of the languages we know and love impose on its core structure. The primal form is more like one of those bi‑stable gestalts — duck‑rabbit, Necker cube, old‑young woman, etc. One way to get a mental handle on the matter is to mull over the many variations on its underlying theme, such as the ones I quoted and discussed in my blog post —
Inquiry Into Inquiry 