Category Archives: Rhetoric

Zeroth Law Of Semiotics • Discussion 1

Posted on October 26, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Zeroth Law Of Semiotics • Comment 2 Re: Laws of Form • John Mingers JM: Hmmm Sounds terribly like analytic philosophy to me. There are not real philosophical problems, it’s all just a matter of misuse of words. Have … Continue reading →

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All Liar, No Paradox • Discussion 2

Posted on October 23, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Laws of Form • James Bowery • John Mingers Dear James, John, et al. The questions arising in the present discussion take us back to the question of what we are using logical values like and for, which takes … Continue reading →

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All Liar, No Paradox • Discussion 1

Posted on October 23, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Laws of Form • John Mingers JM: Several people have referred recently to the idea that Laws of Form, and particularly Chapter 11 with imaginary logical values, provides an answer to the problems Russell found in Principia Mathematica leading to … Continue reading →

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Considerate Reason • 2

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: R.J. Lipton • Why Is Discrete Math Hard To Teach? The Liberal Arts trivium of Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric received a latter day echo in the Unified Science trivium of Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, which was in turn the way Charles Morris … Continue reading →

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Considerate Reason • 1

Posted on December 28, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: R.J. Lipton • Why Is Discrete Math Hard To Teach? Rhetoric deals with forms of argument that consider the interpreter.  As considerate reason, it is involved in the style of training the Greeks dubbed education, “leading out”, and it … 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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Zeroth Law Of Semiotics • Comment 5

Posted on August 7, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List It may be a day or two before I can get back to the zeroth law of semiotics and how grasping it cures a strain of ills that language and some fashions of logic are heir to, … Continue reading →

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Zeroth Law Of Semiotics • Comment 4

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Sungchul Ji General terms are terms like man, woman, child, etc., each of which applies to many individuals, in other words, has a general denotation or a plural extension.  Generally speaking, a general term is treated … Continue reading →

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Zeroth Law Of Semiotics • Comment 3

Posted on August 4, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Tom Wyrick Nominalism takes its name from the idea that “generals are only names” and it goes by the maxims “Do not take a general name for the name of a general” and “Do not multiply entities … Continue reading →

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