Author Archives: Jon Awbrey

Nominalism and Essentialism are the Scylla and Charybdis that Pragmatism Must Navigate Its Middle Way Between

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Cf: Peirce List Discussion Earlier this summer, Ayşe Mermutlu posted a notice of Nathan Houser’s review of Paul Forster’s Peirce and the Threat of Nominalism to the Facebook page of the Charles S. Peirce Society and a brief discussion ensued. … Continue reading →

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Two Ideals

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Two ideals are struggling for supremacy in American life today: one the industrial ideal, dominating thru the supremacy of commercialism, which subordinates the worker to the product and the machine; the other, the ideal of democracy, the ideal of the … Continue reading →

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These are the times that try men’s soles

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

You see, even though back then Barack was a Senator and a presidential candidate … to me, he was still the guy who’d picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually … Continue reading →

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Our Ship Of State❢ Behold Its Wake❢

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

O Speech Divine — You touched our hearts, You stirred our minds. But when we brush the tears away And turn our faces toward the day, We beg of you but one thing just: Look Homeward, Angel, Look Home — … Continue reading →

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C.S. Peirce • Logic of Number (MS 229)

Posted on September 1, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Selections from C.S. Peirce, [Logic of Number] (MS 229) I printed a paper on the Logic of Number in 1866, and it was not made up out of the first thoughts that came into my head about it, by any … Continue reading →

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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 those 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 • (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 by … Continue reading →

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