Category Archives: Chomsky

The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 17

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • JA • GF • JFS • JLRC • JA • JFS • GF A rather amusing, if slightly ominous illustration of the point I am trying to make here has just popped up in the … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 16

Posted on June 25, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • JA • JFS JFS: For those of us who are trying to convince modern students to study Peirce, we need to become bilingual.  We need to show how his terminology and notations map to and … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 15

Posted on June 24, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • JA • GF One could hardly dispute the importance of logical implication relations like   Their set-theoretic analogues are subset relations like which are almost the canonical way of expressing constraint, determination, information, and so on.  … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 14

Posted on June 24, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • JA • JFS We find ourselves at the thresh-old of yet another recurring discussion, this time concerning Peirce’s use of the adjectives formal and quasi-necessary with normative connotations, all of which I think is clear … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 13

Posted on June 22, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

I would like to return to a point where the paths of discussion began to diverge and then bifurcated so chaotically that I could not track them further, namely, here: Re: Peirce List Discussion • JA • GF • JA … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 11

Posted on June 17, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • KM • JA • JFS The most important difference between linguistics and logic is that linguistics is descriptive while logic is normative. Yes, some grammarians try to treat grammar as prescriptive, but most in modern … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 10

Posted on June 16, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • Jon Alan Schmidt JA: As I am realizing more and more in recent years, analyzing and classifying signs as a substitute for analyzing and classifying objects is the first slip of a slide into nominalism, … Continue reading →

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Infinite Uses → Finite Means

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

The idea that a language is based on a system of rules determining the interpretation of its infinitely many sentences is by no means novel.  Well over a century ago, it was expressed with reasonable clarity by Wilhelm von Humboldt in … Continue reading →

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