Category Archives: Physics

The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 5

Posted on May 17, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Gary Richmond When I think back to the conceptual changes my first university physics courses put me through, a single unifying theme emerges.  Relativity Theory and Quantum Mechanics had a way of making the observer an active … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 4

Posted on May 14, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Mike Bergman The mathematical perspectives and theories that made modern physics possible, perhaps even inevitable, were developed by many mathematicians, both abstract and applied, all throughout the 19th Century.  There was a definite sea change in … 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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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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Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism • 1

Posted on November 9, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

The concept of continuity Peirce highlights in his synechism is a logical principle somewhat more general than the concepts of either mathematical or physical continua. Peirce’s concept of continuity is better understood as a concept of lawful regularity or parametric … Continue reading →

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☯ Quantum Mechanics ☯

Posted on August 2, 2014 by Jon Awbrey
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C.S. Peirce • A Guess at the Riddle

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Selections from C.S. Peirce, “A Guess at the Riddle”, CP 1.354–416 359.   First and Second, Agent and Patient, Yes and No, are categories which enable us roughly to describe the facts of experience, and they satisfy the mind for a … Continue reading →

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