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Pragmatic Maxims • 4

Posted on November 8, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • (1) • (2) I haven’t been able to do more than randomly sample the doings on the Peirce List for the last half year, being deeply immersed in other Peirce work that I hope to report … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Maxims • 3

Posted on November 5, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Jerry Rhee Inquiry begins in doubt and aims for belief but the rush to get from doubt to belief and achieve mental peace can cause us to short the integrated circuits of inquiry that we need … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Maxims • 2

Posted on November 4, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Jerry Rhee I tend to think more in relative terms than absolute terms, so I would not expect to find an absolute best formulation of any core principle in philosophy, science, or even math.  But taken … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Maxims • 1

Posted on November 4, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Here is a set of variations on the Pragmatic Maxim that I collected a number of years ago, along with some commentary of my own as I last left it.  As I understand them, they all say … Continue reading →

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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Comment 6

Posted on October 28, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Note.  This is a placeholder, to be developed later. Figure 2 shows the implication ordering of logical terms in the form of a lattice diagram. Figure 2. Disjunctive Term u, Taken as Subject Reference Peirce, C.S. (1866), “The Logic of … Continue reading →

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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Comment 5

Posted on September 30, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Let’s stay with Peirce’s example of abductive inference a little longer and try to clear up the more troublesome confusions tending to arise. Figure 1 shows the implication ordering of logical terms in the form of a lattice diagram. Figure … Continue reading →

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So Many Modes Of Mathematical Thought

Posted on September 9, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

So many modes of mathematical thought, So many are learned, so few are taught. There are streams that flow beneath the sea, There are waves that crash upon the strand, Lateral thoughts that spread and meander — Who knows what … Continue reading →

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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Comment 4

Posted on August 31, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Many things still puzzle me about Peirce’s account at this point.  I indicated a few of them by means of question marks at several places in the last two Figures.  There is nothing for it but returning to the text … Continue reading →

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Iconoclast

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Things thrown out from a center Cooling signs of a central fire Expiring cinders of life within Sent from a star to start again

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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Comment 3

Posted on July 10, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Peirce identifies inference with a process he describes as symbolization.  Let us consider what that might imply. I am going, next, to show that inference is symbolization and that the puzzle of the validity of scientific inference lies merely in … Continue reading →

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