Category Archives: C.S. Peirce

Icon Index Symbol • 20

Posted on January 11, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed For Signs Re: FB | Semiotics, Books, Links, News • Jon Awbrey • Dalibor Lošťák JA: Icon, Index, Symbol and all other classifications are ideal types abstracted from concrete signs and there are no pure … Continue reading →

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Icon Index Symbol • 19

Posted on January 10, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed For Signs Re: Peirce List • Steven Skaggs SS: As far as visual semiotics is concerned, it is helpful to think of a “terrain” or map of a semantic mode territory in which of icon-index-symbol form … Continue reading →

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Icon Index Symbol • 18

Posted on January 8, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed For Signs Re: FB | Semiotics, Books, Links, News • Muntadher Almahdawi Another one of those recurring questions just came up in a Facebook group devoted to Semiotics and I thought it would be useful … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory • Discussion 4

Posted on December 31, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Previous Post Re: Cybernetics • Cliff Joslyn Dear Cliff, Many thanks for your thoughtful reply.  I copied a transcript to my blog to take up first thing next year.  Here’s hoping we all have a better one! Regards, Jon CJ: … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory • Discussion 3

Posted on December 29, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Helmut Raulien HR: As Peircean semiotics is a three-valued logic, I think it bears relevance for the discussion about multiple-valued logic. Dear Helmut, The distinction between “k-adic” (involving a span of k dimensions) and “k-tomic” (involving … Continue reading →

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Inquiry Driven Systems • Comment 6

Posted on December 25, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peter Cameron • Publication : An Author’s View Dear Peter, It’s funny you should mention Tennyson’s poem in the context of an author’s view of publication as I once laid out a detailed interpretation of the poem as a … Continue reading →

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Animated Logical Graphs • 52

Posted on December 21, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Richard J. Lipton • The Future Of Mathematics? • Is The End Near? Re: Peirce List • Jon Alan Schmidt Peirce’s explorations in logic and the theory of signs opened several directions of generalization from logics of complete information … Continue reading →

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Animated Logical Graphs • 51

Posted on December 20, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Richard J. Lipton • The Future Of Mathematics? • Is The End Near? Synchronicity being what it is, a long-running discussion on the Peirce List just gave me a handy bridge to a topic I’ve been meaning to take … Continue reading →

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Survey of Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 2

Posted on December 16, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of blog and wiki posts on three elementary forms of inference, as recognized by a logical tradition extending from Aristotle through Charles S. Peirce.  Particular attention is paid to the way these inferential rudiments combine to … Continue reading →

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 30

Posted on December 15, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Richard J. Lipton • The Future Of Mathematics? • Is The End Near? Re: “Proofs Are Not As Important As Discoveries” (PANAIAD). Conjecture and Discovery fall under the heading of Abductive Inference (AI’s missing grape). About which more when I pull … Continue reading →

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