Author Archives: Jon Awbrey

❃ Blowin’ in the Wind ❃

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

❃ Blowin' in the Wind ❃

It was so windy today, 30 mph gusts at times, that I had to take a chair out on the deck and wait for moments when the tree held still for half a second.

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If the People are to Rule then the People must become Wise

Posted on April 14, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Our Enlightenment Forerunners had the insight to see the critical flaw in all historical failures at democratic government, to wit, or not — If the People are to Rule then the People must become Wise. The consequence is that equally … Continue reading →

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Paradisaical Logic and the After Math

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peter Cameron • Cultures, Tribes, or Just an Illusion? Re: Peirce List • (1) (2) (3) (4) Not too coincidentally with the mention of Peirce’s existential graphs, a tangent of discussion elsewhere brought to mind an old favorite passage … Continue reading →

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C.S. Peirce • Relatives of Second Intention

Posted on April 7, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Selections from C.S. Peirce, “The Logic of Relatives”, CP 3.456–552 488.   The general method of graphical representation of propositions has now been given in all its essential elements, except, of course, that we have not, as yet, studied any truths … Continue reading →

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C.S. Peirce • A Guess at the Riddle

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Selections from C.S. Peirce, “A Guess at the Riddle”, CP 1.354–416 359.   First and Second, Agent and Patient, Yes and No, are categories which enable us roughly to describe the facts of experience, and they satisfy the mind for a … Continue reading →

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C.S. Peirce • The Reality of Thirdness

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Selections from C.S. Peirce, “Lowell Lectures of 1903”, CP 1.343–349 343.   We may say that the bulk of what is actually done consists of Secondness — or better, Secondness is the predominant character of what has been done.  The immediate … Continue reading →

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☆ships of yore

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

on the trailing edge of an icy winged age, semele lies enleved in the foils of hades. when shall we see her depart the departed? when will i mark my recue from the shades? not till signs of spring charge … Continue reading →

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C.S. Peirce • Objective Logic

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Selections from C.S. Peirce, “Minute Logic” (1902), CP 2.111–118 111.   With Speculative Rhetoric, Logic, in the sense of Normative Semeotic, is brought to a close.  But now we have to examine whether there be a doctrine of signs corresponding to … Continue reading →

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Ouch❢

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

A child hears it said that the stove is hot.  But it is not, he says; and, indeed, that central body is not touching it, and only what that touches is hot or cold.  But he touches it, and finds … Continue reading →

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i wax impressionistic

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

would that i could be starting something new ~~~ but there is all of this unfinished business – – and so many threads spin out from this point – – the endeavor toward a functional integration of logic and information … Continue reading →

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