Category Archives: Information

Cybernetics • Regulation In Biological Systems • Selection 2

Posted on November 15, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Regulation In Biological Systems Survival 10/4.   What has just been said is well enough known.  It enables us, however, to join these facts on to the ideas developed in this book and to show the connexion exactly. For consider … Continue reading →

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Cybernetics • Regulation In Biological Systems • Selection 1

Posted on November 14, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Regulation In Biological Systems 10/3.   The foundation.   Let us start at the beginning.  The most basic facts in biology are that this earth is now two thousand million years old, and that the biologist studies mostly that which … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 18

Posted on November 14, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Pragmatic Truth • Discussion • (14) • (16) • (17) Re: Peirce List • Tom Gollier We do not live in axiom systems.  We do not live encased in languages, formal or natural.  There is no reason to think … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 17

Posted on November 13, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Pragmatic Theory Of Truth • (14) • (16) Re: Peirce List • Tom Gollier I meant to write more last time but got waylaid by an onslaught of weather and progress on this topic is likely to be glacial … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 16

Posted on November 11, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Pragmatic Theory Of Truth • 14 Re: Peirce List • Tom Gollier Staying focused on a set objective has never been my strong point so let me emblazon the following emblem by way of keeping my eyes on the … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 15

Posted on November 10, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

The way of inquiry being blocked on Wikipedia, I saved the last version of Pragmatic Truth I worked on to several other wikis.  The current state of that article fork begins as follows: Pragmatic Theory Of Truth Pragmatic theory of truth … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 14

Posted on November 6, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Cybernetic Communications • Stephen Paul King There are many conceptions of truth — linguistic, model-theoretic, proof-theoretic — for the moment I’m focused on cybernetics, systems, and experimental sciences and this is where the pragmatic conception of truth fits what … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 13

Posted on November 3, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: FB | Charles S. Peirce Society • John Corcoran I looked at John Corcoran’s contribution on “Formalizing Pragmatic Truth” but did not see anything near enough what I’d recognize as a pragmatic theory of truth. Pragmatic inquiry into a … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 32

Posted on October 27, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: FB | Foundations of Mathematics • John Corcoran There was a huge — and of course ultimately futile — discussion of truth theories back in 2005 when the Wikipediot article on Truth was under development.  Pragmatists of one stripe … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 31

Posted on October 21, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

One of the more disconcerting developments, I might say “devolutions”, I’ve observed over the last 20 years has been the general slippage back to absolutist and dyadic ways of thinking, all of it due to the stubborn pull of unchecked reductionism … Continue reading →

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