Category Archives: C.S. Peirce

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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C.S. Peirce • New Elements (Καινὰ Στοιχεῖα) • Comment 1

Posted on August 11, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • (1) • (2) Re: C.S. Peirce • New Elements (Καινὰ Στοιχεῖα) • 1 Interest in the reading of Peirce’s “New Elements” appears to be flagging of late, so I thought I might spice things up by … Continue reading →

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C.S. Peirce • New Elements (Καινὰ Στοιχεῖα) • 1

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Selections from C.S. Peirce, “New Elements (Καινὰ Στοιχεῖα)” Editors’ Headnote from The Essential Peirce, Volume 2 MS 517.  [First published in NEM 4:235–63.  This document was most probably written in early 1904, as a preface to an intended book on … Continue reading →

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Higher Order Sign Relations • 1

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

When interpreters reflect on their use of signs they require an appropriate technical language in which to pursue their reflections.  They need signs referring to sign relations, signs referring to elements and components of sign relations, and signs referring to … Continue reading →

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Notes on the Foundations of Mathematics • 2

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Selections from R.L. Wilder, Introduction to the Foundations of Mathematics I.   The Axiomatic Method Since the axiomatic method as it is now understood and practiced by mathematicians is the result of a long evolution in human thought, we shall … Continue reading →

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