Tag Archives: Determination

Pragmatic Traction • 6

Posted on October 15, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • GF • JFS When it comes to the relative contributions of phenomenology and mathematics to logic, I always find myself returning to the picture I drew once before from Peirce’s Syllabus, on the relationship of phenomenology and … Continue reading →

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The Present Is Big With The Future • Comment 2

Posted on June 9, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

My interest in this theme of Leibniz goes back to a time when I began exploring generalized measures of determination and qualitative analogues of differential calculus — doctrines of absolute determinism or predestination had long ago loosened their hold on … Continue reading →

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The Present Is Big With The Future • Comment 1

Posted on June 2, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • John Sowa Re: Peirce List • Jon Awbrey Here is a passage from Leibniz where he half decrypts half encrypts the big idea sparking his discovery of the differential calculus. The Present Is Big With The … Continue reading →

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Triadic Forms of Constraint, Determination, Interaction • 3

Posted on April 24, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

In the beginning was the three-pointed star, One smile of light across the empty face; One bough of bone across the rooting air, The substance forked that marrowed the first sun; And, burning ciphers on the round of space, Heaven … Continue reading →

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Triadic Forms of Constraint, Determination, Interaction • 2

Posted on April 23, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • Gary Richmond Here’s one way of stating what I call a constraint: The set is constrained to a subset of the set Here’s one way of stating a triadic constraint: The set is a subset … Continue reading →

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Triadic Forms of Constraint, Determination, Interaction • 1

Posted on April 23, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • JA • GR • JA • JBD There are many places where Peirce uses the word object in the full pragmatic sense, so much so that it demands a very selective attention not to remark … Continue reading →

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The object of reasoning is to find out …

Posted on April 20, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

No longer wondered what I would do in life but defined my object. — C.S. Peirce (1861), “My Life, written for the Class-Book”, (CE 1, 3) The object of reasoning is to find out, from the consideration of what we already … Continue reading →

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Survey of Semiotic Theory Of Information • 2

Posted on February 27, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of previous blog and wiki posts on the Semiotic Theory Of Information.  All my projects are exploratory in essence but this line of inquiry is more open-ended than most.  The question is: What is information and how … Continue reading →

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Definition and Determination • 14

Posted on May 5, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List (1) (2) I’ve been trying to sort through the explosion of topics and tangents that have arisen over the past month — disruptions in my actual and virtual office spaces have made it hard for me to … Continue reading →

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Types of Reasoning in C.S. Peirce and Aristotle • 2

Posted on April 28, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • Ben Udell • Gary Richmond Present business has kept me from following much of the recent discussion on Peirce’s three types of reasoning, but we have been down this road before and so old tunes … Continue reading →

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