Category Archives: William James

Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 4

Posted on March 16, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Jerry Rhee (quoting Peirce) The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate, is what we mean by the truth, and the object represented in this opinion is the real.  (CP 5.407, … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 3

Posted on March 14, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Val Daniel I propose that we complete the customary (incomplete/dyadic) theories of truth, viz., by consensus and by correspondence, by adding, Truth by “concordance” (what you, Jon, call “triple correspondence”). Proposal accepted!  Actually, I feel like I’ve … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 2

Posted on March 14, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List | Truth As Regulative Or Real • CG • JFS • JLRC I’ve been reviewing the old articles mentioned in my last post and the more I look at them the more I think they might be … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 1

Posted on March 11, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List | Truth As Regulative Or Real • CG • JLRC • JAS • JBD • JA • JFS Cf: Peirce List | Pragmatic Theory Of Truth • JA Comment 1 Folks who were around a dozen years … Continue reading →

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Skiourosemiosis • 1

Posted on September 5, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

The resultant metaphysical problem now is this:Does the man go round the squirrel or not? — William James • Pragmatism ☞ Differential Analysis of Propositions and Transformations

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“What we’ve got here is (a) failure to communicate” • 6

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Excerpt from Warren S. McCulloch, “What Is a Number, that a Man May Know It, and a Man, that He May Know a Number?” (1960) Please remember that we are not now concerned with the physics and chemistry, the anatomy … Continue reading →

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