Category Archives: Aristotle

Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 23

Re: Richard J. Lipton • The Truth Just a random forkful of thoughts from a pragmatic peircepective … Pragmatic Theory Of Truth Re: Cristopher Moore • Platonism and Pluralism The “irritation of doubt”, a state of uncertainty or surprise, marks … Continue reading

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Peirce’s Categories • 20

Re: Peirce’s Categories • 15 Understanding another person’s thought can be difficult.  Understanding the way another understands a third person’s thought, all the more so, even if that third person is not so formidable a thinker as Charles Sanders Peirce.  Measures of … Continue reading

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Peirce’s Categories • 19

Re: Peirce’s Categories • 15 Another point where the onrush of discussion and the impact of worldly distractions caused my train of thought to jump the track is here: Peirce List (1) (2) • RM • JA RM: First I … Continue reading

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Peirce’s Categories • 18

Re: Peirce’s Categories • 15 In These Uncertain Times, as people keep saying, it’s become even harder to concentrate than usual and I keep losing track of tricky points coming up in discussion which cry out for further discussion but … Continue reading

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Peirce’s Categories • 17

I’ve been too immersed in the Peirce List discussion of Robert Marty’s “Podium” paper to write much here — before I lose track of what I’ve been thinking the last several days I’ll need to ravel up my off-the-cuff remarks … Continue reading

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Peirce’s Categories • 16

Re: Peirce’s Categories • 15 Re: Robert Marty • The Podium of the Universal Categories of C.S. Peirce A feature of particular interest to me in Robert Marty’s paper is the resonance he finds between category theory, as it’s known in … Continue reading

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Peirce’s Categories • 15

Re: Peirce List • Robert Marty RM: I submit for your review this preprint which is awaiting publication: The Podium of the Universal Categories of C.S. Peirce Abstract This article organizes Peirce’s universal categories and their degenerate forms from their presupposition … Continue reading

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Peirce’s Categories • 14

Re: Peirce List • Robert Marty RM: What do you think of the presuppositions between the levels? Do they make sense to you? At this point I have mostly questions, which would take further research to answer, not to mention … Continue reading

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Peirce’s Categories • 13

Re: Peirce List • Robert Marty With a few choice exceptions I have always found Peirce’s earlier writings on categories, relations, and semiotics to be more clear, exact, and fruitful in practice than his last attempts to explain himself without … Continue reading

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 29

Re: Ontolog Forum • Michael DeBellis Questions about Abduction in AI and Computer Science raised in the Ontolog Forum prompted me to look up previous discussions tracing the integral relationship among information, inquiry, and the three types of inference.  Here’s … Continue reading

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