Category Archives: Peirce

Re: Peirce List • Jerry Rhee • Tom Gollier • Edwina Taborsky All through 1995 I worked on a graduate project in systems engineering at Oakland University developing my ideas about Inquiry Driven Systems.  I wrote a project report on … Continue reading →

Re: Peirce List • Jerry Rhee • Tom Gollier • Edwina Taborsky Given a working hypothesis, as abduced in the previous post, the next phase of inquiry uses deductive inference to expand the implied consequences of the abductive hypothesis, with … Continue reading →

Re: Peirce List • Jerry Rhee • Tom Gollier • Edwina Taborsky In passing from a sign-relational account to a propositional analysis of Dewey’s story there is an old mathematical trick, analogous to the method of adding fractions by expressing … Continue reading →

Re: Peirce List • Tom Gollier At this point in our paper, Sue and I had already introduced the rudiments of sign relations, as far as the common notions and continuities of thought underpinning the semiotic bridge from Aristotle to … Continue reading →

Re: Peirce List • Tom Gollier Let me dispel any notion that “the interpretant introduces the person as part of the object-sign-interpretant structure”.  We may have left it implicit or unclear in the text but the lower case “i” and … Continue reading →

Re: Peirce List • Tom Gollier I know we’ve discussed the various meanings of the word object which make sense in Peirce’s semiotics and pragmatism generally, so let me just link to a recent comment I found in my search for … Continue reading →

Re: Peirce List • Jerry Chandler The simple question arises:  If an abductive step is taken by the inquirer, then what? A very good question.  Susan Awbrey and I tried our hands at answering the What Next? question in the … Continue reading →

A couple of phrases have stuck in my mind from my earliest days of reading about abductive inference and hypothesis formation.  One has to do with the puzzle of “giving a rule to abduction” and the other alludes to “the reticular … Continue reading →

Re: Peirce List • Clark Goble • John Collier As far as what gives a rule to abduction, as Peirce styled a question I found echoed in minds of inquiry from W.S. McCulloch to Noam Chomsky, Peirce had already given the … Continue reading →