Author Archives: Jon Awbrey

Ask Meno Questions

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Richard Hake • Experiment by Argentinian Neuroscientists Suggests “Socratic” (i.e. “Platonic”) Dialogue Is An Educational Failure I would not have imagined it possible to read Plato’s Meno quite so literally as those inquirers did — but now I do … Continue reading →

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Pragmatics, Enthymeme, Rhetoric, Semiotics

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Kirsti Määttänen Aristotle’s approach to rhetoric is one of the bridges to Peirce’s pragmatism.  It treats forms of argument that “consider the audience”, in effect, that take the nature and condition of the interpreter into account, … Continue reading →

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The Power of Peirce’s Thought • 3

Posted on October 6, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Stephen Rose There are reasons why I felt compelled to stand back from the picture that others were painting — of opposing personal styles in the creative process and also in the wider intellectual landscape — and to seek … Continue reading →

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The Power of Peirce’s Thought • 2

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Kirsti Määttänen You give a good description of the encounter with uncertainty, that unsettled state of mind that irks a person to inquire after new grounds of belief.  Viewed in biological perspective, it is only natural that evolution associates … Continue reading →

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The Power of Peirce’s Thought • 1

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

I often wonder that more people do not avail themselves of the power of Peirce’s thought.  “What are they afraid of?” I ask myself.  I find myself asking it that way because there really does seem to be a persistent … Continue reading →

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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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