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Problems In Philosophy • 9

Re: FB | Ecology Of Systems Thinking • Richard Saunders RS: Hume’s is/ought dichotomy:  are these as Gould said “non-overlapping magisteria” or are they concentric domains?  Is a science of aesthetics at the core?  If memory serves it seems like that … Continue reading

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Problems In Philosophy • 8

Re: Ontolog Forum • David Whitten Dear David, I’ll extend this post tomorrow, apocalypse permitting, but while I wait for the election returns I’ll post just a pair of links to the Wikiversity articles on Descriptive Science and Normative Science, … Continue reading

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Problems In Philosophy • 7

Re: FB | Charles S. Peirce Society (a) John Corcoran • Cosmic Justice Hypotheses (b) John Corcoran • The Inseparability of Logic and Ethics Peirce emphasized the intricate relationships among the Big Three Normative Sciences — Aesthetics, Ethics, Logic — … Continue reading

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Problems In Philosophy • 6

Another one of those recurring questions I’m constantly forgetting what I wrote about or where before just came up again on the Gödel’s Lost Letter blog. Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • The Night Of The Ethical Algorithm Classical … Continue reading

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 17

Re: Peirce List • JA • GF • JFS • JLRC • JA • JFS • GF A rather amusing, if slightly ominous illustration of the point I am trying to make here has just popped up in the daily … Continue reading

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 16

Re: Peirce List • JA • JFS JFS: For those of us who are trying to convince modern students to study Peirce, we need to become bilingual.  We need to show how his terminology and notations map to and from … Continue reading

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 15

Re: Peirce List • JA • GF One could hardly dispute the importance of logical implication relations like   Their set-theoretic analogues are subset relations like which are almost the canonical way of expressing constraint, determination, information, and so on.  … Continue reading

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 14

Re: Peirce List • JA • JFS We find ourselves at the thresh‑old of yet another recurring discussion, this time concerning Peirce’s use of the adjectives formal and quasi‑necessary with normative connotations, all of which I think is clear from … Continue reading

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 13

I would like to return to a point where the paths of discussion began to diverge and then bifurcated so chaotically that I could not track them further, namely, here: Re: Peirce List • JA • GF • JA I … Continue reading

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 12

Re: Peirce List • Kirsti Määttänen I have a sense of what Peirce meant by the “Logic of Science” and what Dewey meant by calling Logic the “Theory of Inquiry”.  If that’s logic in the narrow sense and not Logic … Continue reading

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