Category Archives: Pragmatism

Peirce’s Categories • 4

Posted on May 11, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussions • (1) • (2) • (3) • (4) • (5) Let me state a few principles that have guided me in my efforts to read and understand Peirce for the past fifty years. There is a … 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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Peirce’s Categories • 3

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Recent travels and other travails (dental work) have scattered my thoughts to the four winds, so let me just document a few bits from my current state of mind in case I can get back to it … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s Categories • 2

Posted on October 31, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Jeffrey Brian Downard • Gary Richmond • John Collier According to Peirce, it is logic that draws on both mathematics and phenomenology. At any rate, Peirce takes the distinctive position that normative science, which includes logic, … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s Categories • 1

Posted on October 30, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Jeffrey Brian Downard Just from my experience, the best first approach to questions of firstness, secondness, thirdness, and so on is to regard k-ness as the property that all k-adic relations possess in common.  There is … Continue reading →

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What Makes An Object? • 2

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussison • (1) • (2) Visual metaphors and perceptual analogies can be instructive — they make for most of my personal favorites — but in logic, mathematics, and science our interest extends through the abductive spectrum, from … Continue reading →

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What Makes An Object? • 1

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Gary Fuhrman • Seeing Things What makes an object is a perennial question. I can remember my physics professors bringing it up in a really big way when I was still just a freshman in college.  They always cautioned … Continue reading →

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Zeroth Law Of Semiotics • Comment 7

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List I still have in mind trying to show how the principle I dubbed the Zeroth Law Of Semiotics can help us see what is really going on with a number of old puzzles like the Liar Paradox, … Continue reading →

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Zeroth Law Of Semiotics • Comment 6

Posted on August 11, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List By way of orientation to the task at hand, we are investigating a type of slippage that occurs in the gap between natural language, with the natural assumptions it has evolved to take for granted, rightly or … Continue reading →

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