Category Archives: C.S. Peirce

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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Peirce’s Law

Posted on October 6, 2008 by Jon Awbrey

Peirce’s law is a logical proposition that states a non-obvious truth of classical logic and affords a novel way of defining classical propositional calculus. Continue reading →

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Praeclarum Theorema

Posted on October 5, 2008 by Jon Awbrey

The praeclarum theorema, or splendid theorem, is a theorem of propositional calculus that was noted and named by G.W. Leibniz. Continue reading →

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Logical Graphs • Formal Development

Posted on September 19, 2008 by Jon Awbrey

Logical graphs are next presented as a formal system by going back to the initial elements and developing their consequences in a systematic manner. Continue reading →

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Hypostatic Abstraction

Posted on August 8, 2008 by Jon Awbrey

Hypostatic Abstraction (HA) is a formal operation on a subject–predicate form that preserves its information while introducing a new subject and upping the “arity” of its predicate. To cite a notorious example, HA turns “Opium is drowsifying” into “Opium has dormitive virtue”. Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Maxim

Posted on August 7, 2008 by Jon Awbrey

The pragmatic maxim is a guideline for the practice of inquiry formulated by Charles Sanders Peirce. Serving as a normative recommendation or a regulative principle in the normative science of logic, its function is to guide the conduct of thought toward the achievement of its aims, advising the addressee on an optimal way of “attaining clearness of apprehension”. Continue reading →

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Logic of Relatives

Posted on July 31, 2008 by Jon Awbrey

The logic of relatives, more precisely, the logic of relative terms, is the study of relations as represented in symbolic forms known as “rhemes”, “rhemata”, or “relative terms”. Continue reading →

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Semeiotic

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Jon Awbrey

Theory of Signs Semeiotic is one of the terms C.S. Peirce used for his theory of triadic sign relations and it serves to distinguish his theory of signs from other approaches to the same subject matter, more generally referred to … Continue reading →

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Logical Graphs • Introduction

Posted on July 29, 2008 by Jon Awbrey

A logical graph is a graph-theoretic structure in one of the styles of graphical syntax that Charles Sanders Peirce developed for logic. Continue reading →

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