Tag Archives: Diagrammatic Reasoning

Interpreter and Interpretant • Discussion 2

Re: Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 1 Re: Laws of Form • Lyle Anderson LA: You can not find “ground” in Aristotle.  If the past three years have shown us anything it is that his assertion: But the mental affections … Continue reading

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Interpreter and Interpretant • Discussion 1

Re: Conceptual Graphs • Helmut Raulien   HR: I find it a bit problematic to say, that the sign determines the interpretant, because the sign doesn’t infer, it is the interpreter, who does the inference.  But ok, I guess we … Continue reading

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Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 4

Interpretation and Inquiry To illustrate the role of sign relations in inquiry we begin with Dewey’s elegant and simple example of reflective thinking in everyday life. A man is walking on a warm day.  The sky was clear the last … Continue reading

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Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 3

The following selection from Peirce’s “Lowell Lectures on the Logic of Science” (1866) lays out in detail his “metaphorical argument” for the relationship between interpreters and interpretant signs. I think we need to reflect upon the circumstance that every word implies … Continue reading

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Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 2

In the next passage up for review the hypostatic abstraction of a person to conduct the movement of signs is described by Peirce as a Sop to Cerberus, a rhetorical gambit set to side‑step a persistent difficulty of exposition. It … Continue reading

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Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 1

Questions about the relationship between “interpreters” and “interpretants” in Peircean semiotics have broken out again.  To put the matter as pointedly as possible — because I know someone or other is bound to — “In a theory of three‑place relations … Continue reading

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Logical Graphs • Interpretive Duality 4

Re: Peirce’s Law • (1) • (2) • (3) • (4) • (5) • (6) • (7) Re: Logical Graphs • Interpretive Duality • (1) • (2) • (3) Last time we took up Peirce’s law, and saw how it … Continue reading

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Logical Graphs • Interpretive Duality 3

Re: Peirce’s Law • (1) • (2) • (3) • (4) • (5) • (6) • (7) Re: Logical Graphs • Interpretive Duality • (1) • (2) To see how our choice of interpretation bears on cases beyond the bare … Continue reading

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Logical Graphs • Interpretive Duality 2

A logical concept represented by a boolean variable has its extension, the cases it covers in a designated universe of discourse, and its comprehension (or intension), the properties it implies in a designated hierarchy of predicates.  The formulas and graphs … Continue reading

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Logical Graphs • Interpretive Duality 1

The duality between Entitative and Existential interpretations of logical graphs is a good example of a mathematical symmetry, in this case a symmetry of order two.  Symmetries of this and higher orders give us conceptual handles on excess complexity in … Continue reading

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