Category Archives: Initiative

Inquiry Into Inquiry • Discussion 9

Re: Pragmatic Maxim Re: Academia.edu • Milo Gardner MG: Do you agree that Peirce was limited to bivalent logic? Taking classical logic as a basis for reasoning is no more limiting than taking Dedekind cuts as a basis for constructing … Continue reading

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Inquiry Into Inquiry • Discussion 8

Re: Inquiry Into Inquiry • Discussion 7 Re: Academia.edu • Milo Gardner MG: Peirce sensed that bivalent syntax was superceded by trivalent syntax, but never resolved that nagging question. The main thing is not a question of syntax but a … Continue reading

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Inquiry Into Inquiry • Discussion 7

Dan Everett has prompted a number of discussions on Facebook recently which touch on core issues in Peirce’s thought — but threads ravel on and fray so quickly in that medium one rarely gets a chance to fill out the … Continue reading

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Inquiry Into Inquiry • On Initiative 5

Re: Inquiry Into Inquiry • On Initiative 2 Re: Mathstodon • Joeri Sebrechts JS: That’s not how it works.  The model lacks agency.  It is a machine whose gears are cranked by the user’s prompt.  It can ask questions, but … Continue reading

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Inquiry Into Inquiry • On Initiative 4

Re: Terry Tao • PCAST Working Group on Generative AI Invites Public Input My Comment — I think a lot of people who’ve been working all along on AI, intelligent systems, and computational extensions of human capacities in general are … Continue reading

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Inquiry Into Inquiry • On Initiative 3

Re: Scott Aaronson • Should GPT Exist? • My Comment The more fundamental problem I see here is the failure to grasp the nature of the task at hand, and this I attribute not to a program but to its … Continue reading

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Inquiry Into Inquiry • Discussion 6

Re: Mathstodon • Nicole Rust NR: Computations or Processes — How do you think about the building blocks of the brain? I keep coming back to this thread about levels, along with others on the related issue of paradigms, as … Continue reading

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Inquiry Into Inquiry • Discussion 5

Re: Inquiry Into Inquiry • In Medias Res Re: Inquiry Into Inquiry • Flashback Re: Inquiry Into Inquiry • Discussion 4 A quick review of the highlights so far, and then I’ll continue from the standpoint I indicated last time.  As … Continue reading

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Inquiry Into Inquiry • Discussion 4

Re: Inquiry Into Inquiry • In Medias Res Re: Inquiry Into Inquiry • Flashback Re: FB Comment • Daniel Everett Dan Everett commented on my post about Russell’s question, “How shall we describe the logical form of a belief?”, giving … Continue reading

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Inquiry Into Inquiry • Understanding 2

In the passage quoted in the previous post Bertrand Russell addresses the question, “What is the logical structure of the fact which consists in a given subject understanding a given proposition?” and he selects a proposition of the form to demonstrate his … Continue reading

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