Category Archives: Complementarity

The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 7

Re: Peirce List • GF • GF • GR In our “Inquiry as Action : Risk of Inquiry” paper, originally presented at a conference on “Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences”, Susan and I sought to trace the interminglings of signs … Continue reading

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 6

Re: Peirce List • Gary Fuhrman The uses to which Susan Awbrey and I turned Aristotle’s passage from De Interp can be found in our paper from 1992/1995. Awbrey, J.L., and Awbrey, S.M. (1992), “Interpretation as Action : The Risk of … Continue reading

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 5

Re: Peirce List • Gary Richmond When I think back to the conceptual changes my first university physics courses put me through, a single unifying theme emerges.  Relativity Theory and Quantum Mechanics had a way of making the observer an active … Continue reading

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 4

Re: Peirce List • Mike Bergman The mathematical perspectives and theories that made modern physics possible, perhaps even inevitable, were developed by many mathematicians, both abstract and applied, all throughout the 19th Century.  There was a definite sea change in … Continue reading

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 3

It was fifty years ago this month that I first came North to Michigan, prospecting for a college to enter in the Fall.  I reached East Lansing in the middle of what would later be regaled as the Blizzard of … Continue reading

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