Category Archives: Fixation of Belief

Triadic Forms of Constraint, Determination, Interaction • 3

Posted on April 24, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

In the beginning was the three-pointed star, One smile of light across the empty face; One bough of bone across the rooting air, The substance forked that marrowed the first sun; And, burning ciphers on the round of space, Heaven … Continue reading →

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Triadic Forms of Constraint, Determination, Interaction • 2

Posted on April 23, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • Gary Richmond Here’s one way of stating what I call a constraint: The set is constrained to a subset of the set Here’s one way of stating a triadic constraint: The set is a subset … Continue reading →

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Triadic Forms of Constraint, Determination, Interaction • 1

Posted on April 23, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • JA • GR • JA • JBD There are many places where Peirce uses the word object in the full pragmatic sense, so much so that it demands a very selective attention not to remark … Continue reading →

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The object of reasoning is to find out …

Posted on April 20, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

No longer wondered what I would do in life but defined my object. — C.S. Peirce (1861), “My Life, written for the Class-Book”, (CE 1, 3) The object of reasoning is to find out, from the consideration of what we already … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 12

Posted on March 28, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • JFS • JFS • JAS • GF • JAS • GF I realize that iconolatry — just one of many forms of dyadic reductionism — runs too deep at present for most folks to appreciate this, … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 11

Posted on March 28, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • CG • JA • CG • JA • CG • JA • CG One of the points I’ve been trying to make all along is that a person doesn’t normally need to make a working … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 10

Posted on March 27, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

A paragraph from Kant and associated discussion I added to the Wikipedia article on the Correspondence Theory of Truth in June 2006 is useful at this point, and it serves to set up a corresponding statement from Peirce that we’ll take … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 9

Posted on March 26, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Clark Goble • Jon Awbrey • Clark Goble • Jon Awbrey • Clark Goble To put things more plainly, it’s a routine observation we have no need for moods and tenses in actually doing mathematics, that … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 8

Posted on March 25, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Clark Goble • Jon Awbrey • Clark Goble • Jon Awbrey With respect to the issues surrounding “modal realism” — what stance Peirce took and when he took it — let me refer to a figure … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 7

Posted on March 24, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • Val Daniel Viewing the normative science of logic and its object, truth, in the medium of a triadic sign relation, the first cut among notions of truth divides those that take the object domain into … Continue reading →

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