Category Archives: Pragmatic Maxim

Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems • 5

Posted on April 23, 2023 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of work in progress on Inquiry Driven Systems, material I plan to refine toward a more compact and systematic treatment of the subject. An inquiry driven system is a system having among its state variables some … Continue reading →

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Survey of Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 3

Posted on April 2, 2023 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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Zeroth Law Of Semiotics • Discussion 4

Posted on December 25, 2022 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Zeroth Law Of Semiotics • All Liar, No Paradox Re: FB | Pattern Languages for Systemic Transformation • Esteban Trev JA: A statement asserts that a statement is a statement that is false. The statement violates an axiom of … Continue reading →

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Zeroth Law Of Semiotics • Discussion 3

Posted on December 14, 2022 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Zeroth Law Of Semiotics • All Liar, No Paradox Re: FB | Charles S. Peirce Society • Kent Olson KO: The liar paradox is a self-referential paradox, yes? I think Russell answered these. Dear Kent, Russell had no inkling … Continue reading →

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Zeroth Law Of Semiotics • Discussion 2

Posted on October 27, 2022 by Jon Awbrey

Re: All Liar, No Paradox • Zeroth Law Of Semiotics Re: FB | Charles S. Peirce Society • Joseph Harry Paradoxes star among my first loves in logic.  So enamored was I with tricks of the mind’s eye I remember … Continue reading →

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Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems • 4

Posted on August 12, 2022 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of blog and wiki resources on Inquiry Driven Systems, material I plan to refine toward a more compact and systematic treatment of the subject. An inquiry driven system is a system having among its state variables … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 33

Posted on October 20, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • William Frank William Frank asked a question about propositional attitudes and presuppositions. WF: Are there any formal languages, such as Common Logic, that adequately represent statements about propositions — statements from which, in natural reasoning, one can … Continue reading →

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C.S. Peirce and Category Theory • 8

Posted on July 2, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Category Theory • Henry Story Re: Laws of Form • Lyle Anderson LA: As I am trying to get “frame sync” on this discussion, as the satellite communications people say, I am taking clues from the introduction to the … Continue reading →

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C.S. Peirce and Category Theory • 7

Posted on July 1, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Category Theory • Henry Story HS: I’d be very interested in the comments of people who know about Peirce on the two chapters in the book Diagrammatic Immanence I linked to above on “3. Peirce” and “4. Diagrams of Variation : … Continue reading →

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C.S. Peirce and Category Theory • 6

Posted on June 30, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Category Theory • Henry Story HS: I’d love it of course if all of Peirce’s graphs could be mapped to CT.  That would help me integrate that work a lot faster.  Or alternatively, if one could work out exactly … Continue reading →

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