Category Archives: Hypothesis

Pragmatic Traction • 1

Posted on September 14, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Deborah G. Mayo • Peircean Induction and the Error-Correcting Thesis C.S. Peirce’s pragmatic maxim marks the place where the tire of theory meets the test track of experience — it tells us how general ideas are impacted by practical … Continue reading →

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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Discussion 6

Posted on July 2, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • JA • JFS • JA What interests me about Peirce’s first articulation of the “laws of information” in his early lectures on the “Logic of Science” is how the primal twins of Inquiry and Semiotics nestle … Continue reading →

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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Discussion 5

Posted on July 2, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • John Sowa What you say goes to the heart of a problem I saw in Natural Propositions, whether it was Peirce’s account or Stjernfelt’s analysis I did not have time to decide as the schedule of … Continue reading →

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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Discussion 4

Posted on July 1, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Jeffrey Brian Downard JBD quoting CSP: I restricted myself to terms, because at the time this chapter was first written (1867), I had not remarked that the whole doctrine of breadth and depth was equally applicable … Continue reading →

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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Discussion 3

Posted on June 29, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • John Sowa I gave Frederik Stjernfelt’s Natural Propositions a careful reading back when the Peirce List took it up.  The following archive links will take you to the topic thread and initial post. Peirce List • Frederik Stjernfelt … Continue reading →

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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Discussion 2

Posted on June 28, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • John Sowa JFS: A more fundamental term is proposition, which is informally defined as the “meaning” of a sentence.  That meaning is usually analyzed as comprehension (also known as intension) and extension. The easier-on-the-eyes blog copy of my … Continue reading →

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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Discussion 1

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

A puzzle in Peirce I have puzzled over for as long as I can remember involves the relationship between his theory of signs, marking the characters of icons, indices, and symbols, and his theory of inquiry, bearing the three inferences … Continue reading →

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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Comment 6

Posted on October 28, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Note.  This is a placeholder, to be developed later. Figure 2 shows the implication ordering of logical terms in the form of a lattice diagram. Figure 2. Disjunctive Term u, Taken as Subject Reference Peirce, C.S. (1866), “The Logic of … Continue reading →

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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Comment 5

Posted on September 30, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Let’s stay with Peirce’s example of abductive inference a little longer and try to clear up the more troublesome confusions tending to arise. Figure 1 shows the implication ordering of logical terms in the form of a lattice diagram. Figure … Continue reading →

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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Comment 4

Posted on August 31, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Many things still puzzle me about Peirce’s account at this point.  I indicated a few of them by means of question marks at several places in the last two Figures.  There is nothing for it but returning to the text … Continue reading →

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