Category Archives: Truth Theory

Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 8

Re: Peirce List • Clark Goble • Jon Awbrey • Clark Goble • Jon Awbrey With respect to the issues surrounding “modal realism” — what stance Peirce took and when he took it — let me refer to a figure … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 7

Re: Peirce List Discussion • Val Daniel Viewing the normative science of logic and its object, truth, in the medium of a triadic sign relation, the first cut among notions of truth divides those that take the object domain into … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 6

Re: Peirce List Discussion • CG • JA • JA • JA • JAS • JA • CG • JA • JBD • JA Working on what is worth saving in old Wikipedia articles requires me to rummage through their … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 5

I’ve begun reworking the InterSciWiki article on the Pragmatic Theory of Truth and I think it will be useful to develop it further.  The plan that usually works best for me is to revise the content on the wiki and … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 4

Re: Peirce List • Jerry Rhee (quoting Peirce) The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate, is what we mean by the truth, and the object represented in this opinion is the real.  (CP 5.407, … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 3

Re: Peirce List • Val Daniel I propose that we complete the customary (incomplete/dyadic) theories of truth, viz., by consensus and by correspondence, by adding, Truth by “concordance” (what you, Jon, call “triple correspondence”). Proposal accepted!  Actually, I feel like I’ve … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 2

Re: Peirce List | Truth As Regulative Or Real • CG • JFS • JLRC I’ve been reviewing the old articles mentioned in my last post and the more I look at them the more I think they might be … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 1

Re: Peirce List | Truth As Regulative Or Real • CG • JLRC • JAS • JBD • JA • JFS Cf: Peirce List | Pragmatic Theory Of Truth • JA Comment 1 Folks who were around a dozen years … Continue reading

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Paradisaical Logic and the After Math

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

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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