Category Archives: Truth Theory

Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 18

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

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

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

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

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

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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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 12

Re: Peirce List Discussion • JFS • JFS • JAS • GF • JAS • GF I realize that iconolatry — just one of many forms of dyadic reductionism — runs too deep at present for most folks to appreciate this, … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 11

Re: Peirce List Discussion • CG • JA • CG • JA • CG • JA • CG One of the points I’ve been trying to make all along is that a person doesn’t normally need to make a working … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 10

A paragraph from Kant and associated discussion I added to the Wikipedia article on the Correspondence Theory of Truth in June 2006 is useful at this point, and it serves to set up a corresponding statement from Peirce that we’ll take … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 9

Re: Peirce List • Clark Goble • Jon Awbrey • Clark Goble • Jon Awbrey • Clark Goble To put things more plainly, it’s a routine observation we have no need for moods and tenses in actually doing mathematics, that … Continue reading

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