Monthly Archives: July 2024

Pragmatic Truth • 3

Truth Predicates An inquiry into the character of truth generally begins with the idea of an informative, meaningful, or significant element, the goodness of whose information, meaning, or significance may be put in question and needs to be evaluated.  Depending … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Truth • 2

Truth as the Good of Logic Pragmatic theories of truth enter on a stage set by the philosophies of former ages, with special reference to the Ancient Greeks, the Scholastics, and Immanuel Kant.  Recalling a few elements of that background can … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Truth • 1

Questions about the pragmatic conception of truth have broken out in several quarters, asking in effect, “What conceptions of truth arise most naturally from and are best suited to pragmatic ways of thinking?”  My best thoughts on that score were … Continue reading

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Constraints and Indications • 2

Re: Constraints and Indications • 1 Re: Ontolog Forum • Joseph Simpson Coping with collaboration, communication, context, integration, interoperability, perspective, purpose, and the reality of the information dimension demands a transition from conceptual environments bounded by dyadic relations to those … Continue reading

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Constraints and Indications • 1

Re: Peirce List • Kaina Stoicheia and the Symbol Grounding Problem Re: Jerry Chandler • Christophe Menant • Jon Awbrey • Christophe Menant The system‑theoretic concept of constraint is one that unifies a manifold of other notions — definition, determination, … Continue reading

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