Category Archives: Pragmatism

Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 6

Posted on March 21, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

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

Posted on March 19, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

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

Posted on March 16, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

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

Posted on March 14, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

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

Posted on March 14, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

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

Posted on March 11, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

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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Survey of Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 1

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of blog and wiki posts on three elementary forms of inference, as recognized by a logical tradition extending from Aristotle through Charles S. Peirce.  Particular attention is paid to the way these inferential rudiments combine to … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 3

Posted on February 28, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

It was fifty years ago this month that I first came North to Michigan, prospecting for a college to enter in the Fall.  I reached East Lansing in the middle of what would later be regaled as the Blizzard of … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 2

Posted on February 8, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: A Flash From The Past ⚡⚡⚡ My mind keeps flashing back to the days when I first encountered Peirce’s thought.  It was so fresh, it spoke to me like no other thinker’s thought I knew, and it held so … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Maxims • 4

Posted on November 8, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • (1) • (2) I haven’t been able to do more than randomly sample the doings on the Peirce List for the last half year, being deeply immersed in other Peirce work that I hope to report … Continue reading →

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