Category Archives: Inquiry

Approaching Peirce

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

I gradually grow accustomed to the distinct possibility that there will always be different readings, and even divergent interpretations of Peirce’s writings. Some of that appears to be a two- or three-cultures issue — the readings that befit aesthetic, cultural, … Continue reading →

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Peircean Semiotics and Triadic Sign Relations • 2

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

When I returned to graduate school for the third time around, this time in systems engineering, I had in mind integrating my long‑standing projects investigating the dynamics of information, inquiry, learning, and reasoning, viewing each as a process whose trajectory evolves … Continue reading →

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Peircean Semiotics and Triadic Sign Relations • 1

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

As a “guide for the perplexed”, at least when it comes to semiotics, I’ll use this thread to collect a budget of resources I think have served to clarify the topic in the past. By way of a first offering, … Continue reading →

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The Place Where Three Wars Meet

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

One of the interesting things about the curse of our nation’s interesting times is the chance we have to observe how that triple threat — the War on Democracy, the War on Education, and the War on Science — work … Continue reading →

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The Unmet Challenge of Peirce’s Work

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

NB. I am posting these incipient thoughts as a promissory note, in hopes of nudging myself to develop the theme as time goes by. The Unrealized Potential of Peirce’s Thought One of my main philosophical and practical concerns for many … Continue reading →

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Definition and Determination • 8

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Jim Willgoose (1) (2) The most general meaning of “formal” is “concerned with form”, but the Latin “forma” can mean “beauty” in addition to “form”, so perhaps a normative “goodness of form” enters at this root. … Continue reading →

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Definition and Determination • 7

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Peirce clearly set great store by his 1902 definition of logic as formal semiotic, whose principles he proposed to deduce by evident and rigorous mathematical reasoning from his triadic relational definition of a sign. It is from this definition, together … Continue reading →

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Definition and Determination • 6

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Gary Fuhrman (1) (2) The following two passages may help to clarify Peirce’s admittedly peculiar usage of “formal” in this context. C.S. Peirce • Objective Logic C.S. Peirce • Logic as Semiotic Re: Peirce List • … Continue reading →

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C.S. Peirce • Logic as Semiotic

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Selection from C.S. Peirce, “Ground, Object, and Interpretant” (c. 1897) Logic, in its general sense, is, as I believe I have shown, only another name for semiotic (σημειωτική), the quasi-necessary, or formal, doctrine of signs.  By describing the doctrine as … Continue reading →

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Definition and Determination • 5

Posted on June 2, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Walking the line between phenomenology and mathematics, let us cast our eyes on the prize of defining logic.  Peirce defines logic as formal semiotic — and that in turn calls for a definition of sign. Here is a place where … Continue reading →

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