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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 25

Posted on July 15, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Pragmatic Truth • (1) • (2) Re: OEIS Wiki | Correspondence Theory Of Truth Re: FB | Inquiry Driven Systems • Richard Saunders RS: Given that “facts are basically combinations of objects together with their properties or relations;  so … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • 4

Posted on July 13, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Truth Theories Theories of truth may be described according to several dimensions of description affecting the character of the predicate “true”.  The truth predicates used in different theories may be classified according to the number of things which have to … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • 3

Posted on July 12, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Truth Predicates An inquiry into the character of truth generally begins with the idea of an informative, meaningful, or significant element, the goodness of whose information, meaning, or significance may be put in question and needs to be evaluated.  Depending … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • 2

Posted on July 10, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Truth as the Good of Logic Pragmatic theories of truth enter on a stage set by the philosophies of former ages, with special reference to the Ancient Greeks, the Scholastics, and Immanuel Kant.  Recalling a few elements of that background can … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • 1

Posted on July 8, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Questions about the pragmatic conception of truth have broken out in several quarters, asking in effect, “What conceptions of truth arise most naturally from and are best suited to pragmatic ways of thinking?”  My best thoughts on that score were … Continue reading →

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Precursors Of Category Theory • 6

Posted on May 30, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Hilbert and Ackermann • Principles of Mathematical Logic (1928) For the intuitive interpretation on which we have hitherto based the predicate calculus, it was essential that the sentences and predicates should be sharply differentiated from the individuals, which occur as … Continue reading →

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Precursors Of Category Theory • 5

Posted on May 29, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

A demonstration rests in a finite number of steps. G. Spencer Brown • Laws of Form David Hilbert • “On the Infinite” (1925) Finally, let us recall our real subject and, so far as the infinite is concerned, draw the … Continue reading →

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Precursors Of Category Theory • 4

Posted on May 28, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

C.S. Peirce • “Prolegomena to an Apology for Pragmaticism” (1906) I will now say a few words about what you have called Categories, but for which I prefer the designation Predicaments, and which you have explained as predicates of predicates. … Continue reading →

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Precursors Of Category Theory • 3

Posted on May 27, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. Immanuel Kant (1785) C.S. Peirce • “On a New List of Categories” (1867) §1.  This paper is based … Continue reading →

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Precursors Of Category Theory • 2

Posted on May 26, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists … ☙ Marcel Proust When it comes to looking … Continue reading →

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