Category Archives: Science

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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Peirce and Democracy • 2

Posted on December 30, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Gary Richmond • Helmut Raulien • John Sowa • Jon Awbrey The essential reading for understanding the unbridled avarice of capitalism — how the Gospel Of Greed takes root in the hearts of those who set … Continue reading →

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Theory and Therapy of Representations • 2

Posted on December 19, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

December 19, 2011 In a complex society, people making decisions and taking actions at places remote from you have the power to affect your life in significant ways.  Those people govern your life, they are your government, no matter what … Continue reading →

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Peirce and Democracy • 1

Posted on November 23, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • GR • JA In my mind the connection between Peirce and Democracy has long revolved around the concept of representation. Representation in its semiotic sense has to do with signs that represent pragmatic objects to … Continue reading →

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Theory and Therapy of Representations • 1

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Again, in a ship, if a man were at liberty to do what he chose, but were devoid of mind and excellence in navigation (αρετης κυβερνητικης), do you perceive what must happen to him and his fellow sailors? Plato • … Continue reading →

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Scientific Attitude • 1

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

There is an outlook on the world I call the Scientific Attitude (SA).  There are times when the letter “A” is better served by apperception, approach, or attunement, but attitude will do for a start. The scientific attitude accepts appearances, … Continue reading →

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What’s The Use?

Posted on October 1, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

What’s the use of getting up in the morning? Never mind that now, I’m already up. Be constructive.  Try to focus on something positive. Okay, then, what’s the use of logic? You call that focused?  Be more specific! So what’s … Continue reading →

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C.S. Peirce • Syllabus • Selection 1

Posted on August 24, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Selection from C.S. Peirce, “A Syllabus of Certain Topics of Logic” (1903) An Outline Classification of the Sciences 180.   This classification, which aims to base itself on the principal affinities of the objects classified, is concerned not with all … Continue reading →

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Oracles

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Computing, in its way, and science, in its broader way, both involve the relation between what appears limited and what appears not. Whether you believe in divinity or not, and whether you believe that humanity contains a spark of divinity … Continue reading →

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