Category Archives: Logic

Definition and Determination • 1

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

It looks like we might be due for one of our recurring reviews on the closely related subjects of definition and determination, with special reference to what Peirce himself wrote on the topics. Arisbe List Archive Here is a collection … Continue reading →

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Details, Details, Details

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

The difference between the devil and the divinity may lie in the details, but it’s not unusual for the devil to decoy us with detail after detail, when the unexamined premiss is the screen behind which the real deil lies. … Continue reading →

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Inquiry Live and Logic Live

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Prompted by observations I made over a long period of time about the problems of fragmentation and increasing insularity in web communities and inspired in part by discussions I had with Michel Bauwens of the Peer2Peer (P2P) Foundation, I started … Continue reading →

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Modus Dolens

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

A yet innominate mode of inference has become so frequent in certain quarters that the time has come to fashion a suitable name for it. The scheme of thought in question goes a bit like this: If A, then B. … Continue reading →

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What Peirce Preserves

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • On Peirce Preservation Cf: Inquiry List • What Peirce Preserves Looking back from this moment, I think I see things a little differently.  The critical question is whether our theoretical description of inquiry gives us a … Continue reading →

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Paradisaical Logic and the After Math

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peter Cameron • Cultures, Tribes, or Just an Illusion? Re: Peirce List • (1) (2) (3) (4) Not too coincidentally with the mention of Peirce’s existential graphs, a tangent of discussion elsewhere brought to mind an old favorite passage … Continue reading →

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C.S. Peirce • Relatives of Second Intention

Posted on April 7, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Selections from C.S. Peirce, “The Logic of Relatives”, CP 3.456–552 488.   The general method of graphical representation of propositions has now been given in all its essential elements, except, of course, that we have not, as yet, studied any truths … Continue reading →

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C.S. Peirce • The Reality of Thirdness

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Selections from C.S. Peirce, “Lowell Lectures of 1903”, CP 1.343–349 343.   We may say that the bulk of what is actually done consists of Secondness — or better, Secondness is the predominant character of what has been done.  The immediate … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s Law

Posted on October 6, 2008 by Jon Awbrey

Peirce’s law is a logical proposition that states a non-obvious truth of classical logic and affords a novel way of defining classical propositional calculus. Continue reading →

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Praeclarum Theorema

Posted on October 5, 2008 by Jon Awbrey

The praeclarum theorema, or splendid theorem, is a theorem of propositional calculus that was noted and named by G.W. Leibniz. Continue reading →

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