Category Archives: C.S. Peirce

Sign Relational Manifolds • 1

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Riemann’s concept of a manifold, especially as later developed, bears a close relationship to Peirce’s concept of a sign relation. I will have to wait for my present train of thought to stop at a station before I can hop … Continue reading →

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Ask Meno Questions • Discussion 2

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Victoria N. Alexander I tend to favor that general way of speaking, having been brought up on classical cybernetics, optimal control, and systems theory, where we think of a system as passing through its state space, controlled by its … Continue reading →

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Ask Meno Questions • Discussion 1

Posted on October 14, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Victoria N. Alexander I think you are stating several important insights. The word object in pragmatism and pragmatic semiotics has a much wider range of meanings than the extremely reductive sense of a “compact physical object”.  Anyone wishing to … 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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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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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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