Category Archives: Semiotics

In the Way of Inquiry • Obstacles

Posted on September 12, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary … Continue reading →

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In the Way of Inquiry • Recircus

Posted on September 12, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

I must lie down where all the ladders start In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart. — W.B. Yeats I have in mind circling back to a point in my project on Inquiry Driven Systems, namely, the chapter … 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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All Liar, No Paradox • Comment 1

Posted on August 2, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

A statement asserts that a statement is a statement that is false. The statement violates an axiom of logic, so it doesn’t really matter whether the ostensible statement the so-called liar, really is a statement or has a truth value. … Continue reading →

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All Liar, No Paradox

Posted on August 1, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

A statement asserts that a statement is a statement that is false. The statement violates an axiom of logic, so it doesn’t really matter whether the ostensible statement the so-called liar, really is a statement or has a truth value.

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Zeroth Law Of Semiotics • Comment 2

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Edwina Taborsky My old avatar 0* (Zero-Aster) does incline to laconic verses but I hope to address a class of concrete applications which will serve to unpack their sense. The main thing I wish to communicate … Continue reading →

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