Category Archives: Indication

Definition and Determination • 16

Posted on April 22, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Richard McCullough RM:  What is your view of definitions? A recurring question, always worth some thought, so I added my earlier comment to a long-running series on my blog concerned with Definition and Determination. Survey of Definition … Continue reading →

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Definition and Determination • 15

Posted on April 21, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Richard McCullough In some early math course I learned a fourfold scheme of Primitives (undefined terms), Definitions, Axioms, and Inference Rules.  But later excursions tended to run the axioms and definitions together, speaking for example of … Continue reading →

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Definition and Determination • 14

Posted on May 5, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List (1) (2) I’ve been trying to sort through the explosion of topics and tangents that have arisen over the past month — disruptions in my actual and virtual office spaces have made it hard for me to … Continue reading →

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Types of Reasoning in C.S. Peirce and Aristotle • 2

Posted on April 28, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • Ben Udell • Gary Richmond Present business has kept me from following much of the recent discussion on Peirce’s three types of reasoning, but we have been down this road before and so old tunes … Continue reading →

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Types of Reasoning in C.S. Peirce and Aristotle • 1

Posted on April 26, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion In one of his earliest treatments of the three types of reasoning, from his Harvard Lectures “On the Logic of Science” (1865), Peirce gives an example that illustrates how one and the same proposition might be … Continue reading →

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Readings On Determination • Discussion 3

Posted on April 23, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Readings On Determination • 1 I keep coming back to Peirce’s early lectures on the logic of science because we see there the first inklings of his prospective theory of information, one of those ideas whose time was ripe … Continue reading →

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Readings On Determination • 1

Posted on April 22, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List (1) (2) The concepts of definition and determination converge in their concern for setting bounds to the point where they coincide at a certain level of abstraction.  One avenue of approach to determination may then begin from a consideration … Continue reading →

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Readings On Determination • Discussion 2

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List (1) (2) Re: Jeffrey Downard (1) (2) (3) Having been through this same discussion on many previous occasions I’ll try to sum up the more persistent confusions never ceasing to bedevil the subject.  Most of these arise from … Continue reading →

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Readings On Determination • Discussion 1

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List (1) (2) What I’m really after here has to do with the way a certain concept of determination figures into Peirce’s better definitions of a sign relation — “better” meaning definitions strong enough to bear the load … Continue reading →

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Definition and Determination • 13

Posted on April 15, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List (1) (2) Re: Jerry Rhee (1) (2) Verbal acrobatics can get a person only so far, even for a high-wire act like C.S. Peirce, and all the great failures to launch I’ve seen pragmatism and semiotics suffer from … Continue reading →

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