Category Archives: Aristotle

Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 14

Posted on November 6, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Cybernetic Communications • Stephen Paul King There are many conceptions of truth — linguistic, model-theoretic, proof-theoretic — for the moment I’m focused on cybernetics, systems, and experimental sciences and this is where the pragmatic conception of truth fits what … Continue reading →

Posted in Aristotle, C.S. Peirce, Coherence, Concordance, Congruence, Consensus, Convergence, Correspondence, Dewey, Fixation of Belief, Information, Inquiry, John Dewey, Kant, Logic, Logic of Science, Method, Peirce, Philosophy, Pragmatic Maxim, Pragmatism, Semiotics, Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Truth, Truth Theory, William James | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 11 Comments

Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 13

Posted on November 3, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: FB | Charles S. Peirce Society • John Corcoran I looked at John Corcoran’s contribution on “Formalizing Pragmatic Truth” but did not see anything near enough what I’d recognize as a pragmatic theory of truth. Pragmatic inquiry into a … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s Categories • 12

Posted on October 12, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • JFS • JBD Different minds are drawn to Peirce for different reasons and they tend to discover different stores of value there.  I was attracted to his work largely for his insights into logic, math, and … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s Categories • 11

Posted on October 10, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Helmut Raulien There is a kind of “second cousin” kinship between category markers and grammatical aspects, moods, or tenses.  In several drafts of an earlier comment I experimented with grammatical terms like conjugation, declension, diacritic, inflection, … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s Categories • 10

Posted on October 8, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Cybernetics • Bernard Cohen I began that note on the Precursors of Category Theory as a purely exploratory sketch, plotting a few points on a single theme with no plans of making an exhaustive survey.  Even at that I … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s Categories • 9

Posted on October 7, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: FB | Systems Sciences • Kenneth Lloyd Scanning the spectrum of sources I sampled in my Precursors of Category Theory, there are many differences in the categorical paradigms different observers developed over the centuries.  Just for starters, the numbers … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s Categories • 8

Posted on October 6, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce Society Facebook Page • Ricardo Bibi Tamtam Durski The best way to get clear about Peirce’s categories is to look to their origin in Aristotle’s concept of a category, in effect nothing more mysterious than a grammatical device … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Discussion 18

Posted on October 3, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: FB | Peirce Society • John Corcoran To address Was ist und was soll Information sein? in a Peircean context we need to grasp or at least try to grapple with Peirce’s inklings about information.  As it happens, I’ve … Continue reading →

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 27

Posted on August 20, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Gil Kalai • Avi Wigderson : Integrating Computational Modeling, Algorithms, and Complexity into Theories of Nature Marks a New Scientific Revolution! I took a look at Avi’s paper “On the Nature of the Theory of Computation” (OtNotToC).  There is … Continue reading →

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 26

Posted on August 6, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Gil Kalai • Avi Wigderson : Integrating Computational Modeling, Algorithms, and Complexity into Theories of Nature Marks a New Scientific Revolution! Projects giving a central place to computation in scientific inquiry go back to Hobbes and Leibniz, at least, … Continue reading →

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