Category Archives: Normative Science

The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 19

Posted on November 18, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • John Sowa Peirce uses the word “formal” in a sense that gives it normative force.  It is this sense in which he defines logic as formal semiotic. But taking “formal” in a normative sense weighs against John … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Traction • 7

Posted on November 8, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • John Sowa It’s good to remember that observation, perception itself, has an abductive character in Peirce’s analysis and induction for him is more a final testing than initial conception stage.  Yes, it’s wheels upon wheels but … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Traction • 6

Posted on October 15, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • GF • JFS When it comes to the relative contributions of phenomenology and mathematics to logic, I always find myself returning to the picture I drew once before from Peirce’s Syllabus, on the relationship of phenomenology and … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Cosmos • 1

Posted on June 9, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Michael Harris • Not About Fibonacci I have often reflected on the interminglings of the main three normative sciences.  In one of my earliest meditations I saw Beauty, Goodness, and Truth as the intersecting circles of a Venn diagram, with the … Continue reading →

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Problems In Philosophy • 3

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: R.D. Mounce Making reality our friend is necessary to survival and finding good descriptions of reality is the better part of doing that, so I don’t imagine we have any less interest in truth than the Ancients.  From what … Continue reading →

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Problems In Philosophy • 2

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • You Think We Have Problems Classical tradition views logic as a normative science, one whose object is truth.  This puts logic on a par with ethics, whose object is justice or morality in … Continue reading →

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C.S. Peirce • Syllabus • Selection 2

Posted on October 4, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

But round about the castle there began to grow a hedge of thorns, which every year became higher, and at last grew close up round the castle and all over it, so that there was nothing of it to be … Continue reading →

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C.S. Peirce • Syllabus • Selection 1

Posted on August 24, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Selection from C.S. Peirce, “A Syllabus of Certain Topics of Logic” (1903) An Outline Classification of the Sciences 180.   This classification, which aims to base itself on the principal affinities of the objects classified, is concerned not with all … Continue reading →

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