Category Archives: Semiotics

The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 11

Posted on June 17, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Kirsti Määttänen • Jon Awbrey • John Sowa The most important difference between linguistics and logic is that linguistics is descriptive while logic is normative. Yes, some grammarians try to treat grammar as prescriptive, but most … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 10

Posted on June 16, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Jon Alan Schmidt JA: As I am realizing more and more in recent years, analyzing and classifying signs as a substitute for analyzing and classifying objects is the first slip of a slide into nominalism, namely, … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 9

Posted on June 13, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List | Jay Zeman • JFS • GF • GF • GF • GR • JA • JA • JA • GF • JA • GR • JFS Re: Peirce List | Rheme and Reason • JA • … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 8

Posted on May 31, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • James Albrecht Among the subtle shifts in scientific thinking that occurred in the mid 1800s, George Boole gave us a functional interpretation of logic, associating every propositional expression — at the most basic level of logic we now … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 7

Posted on May 31, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • GF • GF • GR In our “Inquiry as Action : Risk of Inquiry” paper, originally presented at a conference on “Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences”, Susan and I sought to trace the interminglings of signs … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 6

Posted on May 30, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Gary Fuhrman The uses to which Susan Awbrey and I turned Aristotle’s passage from De Interp can be found in our paper from 1992/1995. Awbrey, J.L., and Awbrey, S.M. (1992), “Interpretation as Action : The Risk of … Continue reading →

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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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Icon Index Symbol • 17

Posted on May 9, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed For Signs Re: Peirce List (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) • Helmut Raulien Our object being to clarify the relationships among icons, indices, and symbols, I believe the maximum benefit possible at this point is … Continue reading →

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Icon Index Symbol • 16

Posted on May 6, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed For Signs Re: Peirce List (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) • Jon Alan Schmidt • Helmut Raulien Having lost my train of thought due to a week on the road, I would like to go … Continue reading →

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