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Pragmatic Theory Of Truth • 14

Re: Cybernetic Communications • Stephen Paul King There are many conceptions of truth — linguistic, model-theoretic, proof-theoretic — for the moment I’m focused on cybernetics, systems, and experimental sciences and this is where the pragmatic conception of truth fits what … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Theory Of Truth • 13

Re: FB | Charles S. Peirce Society • John Corcoran I looked at John Corcoran’s contribution on “Formalizing Pragmatic Truth” but did not see anything near enough what I’d recognize as a pragmatic theory of truth. Pragmatic inquiry into a … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Theory Of Truth • 12

Re: Peirce List Discussion • JFS • JFS • JAS • GF • JAS • GF I realize that iconolatry — just one of many forms of dyadic reductionism — runs too deep at present for most folks to appreciate this, … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Theory Of Truth • 11

Re: Peirce List Discussion • CG • JA • CG • JA • CG • JA • CG One of the points I’ve been trying to make all along is that a person doesn’t normally need to make a working … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Theory Of Truth • 10

A paragraph from Kant and associated discussion I added to the Wikipedia article on the Correspondence Theory of Truth in June 2006 is useful at this point, and it serves to set up a corresponding statement from Peirce that we’ll take … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Theory Of Truth • 9

Re: Peirce List • Clark Goble • Jon Awbrey • Clark Goble • Jon Awbrey • Clark Goble To put things more plainly, it’s a routine observation we have no need for moods and tenses in actually doing mathematics, that … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Theory Of Truth • 8

Re: Peirce List • Clark Goble • Jon Awbrey • Clark Goble • Jon Awbrey With respect to the issues surrounding “modal realism” — what stance Peirce took and when he took it — let me refer to a figure … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Theory Of Truth • 7

Re: Peirce List Discussion • Val Daniel Viewing the normative science of logic and its object, truth, in the medium of a triadic sign relation, the first cut among notions of truth divides those that take the object domain into … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Theory Of Truth • 6

Re: Peirce List Discussion • CG • JA • JA • JA • JAS • JA • CG • JA • JBD • JA Working on what is worth saving in old Wikipedia articles requires me to rummage through their … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Theory Of Truth • 5

I’ve begun reworking the InterSciWiki article on the Pragmatic Theory of Truth and I think it will be useful to develop it further.  The plan that usually works best for me is to revise the content on the wiki and … Continue reading

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