Category Archives: Triadic Relations

Peirce’s Categories • 15

Posted on May 1, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Robert Marty RM: I submit for your review this preprint which is awaiting publication: The Podium of the Universal Categories of C.S. Peirce Abstract This article organizes Peirce’s universal categories and their degenerate forms from their presupposition … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s Categories • 14

Posted on April 16, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Robert Marty RM: What do you think of the presuppositions between the levels? Do they make sense to you? At this point I have mostly questions, which would take further research to answer, not to mention … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s Categories • 13

Posted on April 15, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Robert Marty With a few choice exceptions I have always found Peirce’s earlier writings on categories, relations, and semiotics to be more clear, exact, and fruitful in practice than his last attempts to explain himself without … Continue reading →

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Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Discussion 6

Posted on April 12, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Jon Alan Schmidt Just a note to record this citation by Jon Alan Schmidt of an important theme in Peirce.  It touches on one of those recurring questions which has come up time and again on the … Continue reading →

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Survey of Cybernetics • 1

Posted on March 18, 2020 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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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 22

Posted on March 9, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Systems Science • Scott Jackson Discussions of “thinking and flawed decisions” arising in the Systems Science Working Group naturally brought the topic of Pragmatic Truth and all its bedeviled vicissitudes back to this Peircean’s mind. I have often observed … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 21

Posted on January 6, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Cybernetic Communications • Klaus Krippendorff I appreciate the way Klaus Krippendorff immediately extracted one of the overarching themes of Peirce’s whole paper, indeed of his whole work.  That allows us to tread lightly past a lot of verbal nit-picking … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 20

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Renaissance Mathematicus • Thony Christie Re: Cybernetic Communications • Louis Kauffman Re: FB | Charles S. Peirce Society • John Corcoran Various conceptions of belief in relation to pragmatic theories of inquiry, signs, and truth have come up recently … Continue reading →

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Higher Order Sign Relations • Discussion 2

Posted on December 23, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Joseph Simpson Re: Relations, Types, Functions JA: The subject matters of relations, types, and functions enjoy a form of recursive involvement with one another which makes it difficult to know where to get on and where to … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 19

Posted on December 14, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Going over the last few month’s posts about signs, systems, and theories of truth I see many unanswered questions deserving of further attention.  Seasonal diversions being what they are my mind will be elsewhere the rest of the year so … Continue reading →

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