Tag Archives: Fixation of Belief

Survey of Pragmatic Semiotic Information • 9

Posted on May 4, 2025 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of blog and wiki posts on a theory of information which grows out of pragmatic semiotic ideas.  All my projects are exploratory in character but this line of inquiry is more open‑ended than most.  The question … Continue reading →

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Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems • 7

Posted on May 4, 2025 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of work in progress on Inquiry Driven Systems, material I plan to refine toward a more compact and systematic treatment of the subject. An inquiry driven system is a system having among its state variables some … Continue reading →

Posted in Abduction, Adaptive Systems, Analogy, Animata, Artificial Intelligence, Automated Research Tools, C.S. Peirce, Cognitive Science, Cybernetics, Deduction, Educational Systems Design, Educational Technology, Fixation of Belief, Induction, Information Theory, Inquiry, Inquiry Driven Systems, Inquiry Into Inquiry, Intelligent Systems, Interpretation, Logic, Logic of Science, Mathematics, Mental Models, Pragmatic Maxim, Semiotics, Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Visualization | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

Survey of Cybernetics • 5

Posted on May 2, 2025 by Jon Awbrey

Again, in a ship, if a man were at liberty to do what he chose, but were devoid of mind and excellence in navigation (αρετης κυβερνητικης), do you perceive what must happen to him and his fellow sailors? — Plato … Continue reading →

Posted in Abduction, C.S. Peirce, Communication, Control, Cybernetics, Deduction, Determination, Discovery, Doubt, Epistemology, Fixation of Belief, Induction, Information, Information = Comprehension × Extension, Information Theory, Inquiry, Inquiry Driven Systems, Inquiry Into Inquiry, Interpretation, Invention, Knowledge, Learning Theory, Logic, Logic of Relatives, Logic of Science, Mathematics, Peirce, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Pragmatic Information, Probable Reasoning, Process Thinking, Relation Theory, Scientific Inquiry, Scientific Method, Semeiosis, Semiosis, Semiotic Information, Semiotics, Sign Relational Manifolds, Sign Relations, Surveys, Triadic Relations, Uncertainty | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Survey of Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 5

Posted on May 1, 2025 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of blog and wiki posts on three elementary forms of inference, as recognized by a logical tradition extending from Aristotle through Charles S. Peirce.  Particular attention is paid to the way the inferential rudiments combine to … Continue reading →

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Tenacity, Authority, Plausibility, Inquiry

Posted on February 14, 2025 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peter Cameron • Mathematics and Logic My favorite polymathematician, Charles Sanders Peirce, gave a fourfold classification of what he called “methods of fixing belief”, or “settling opinion”, most notably and seminally in his paper, “The Fixation of Belief” (1877).  … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • 6

Posted on July 25, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Peirce on Semiosis and Inquiry Peirce’s theory of truth depends on two other, intimately related subject matters, his theory of sign relations and his theory of inquiry.  Inquiry is special case of semiosis, a process passing from signs to signs while … Continue reading →

Posted in Aristotle, C.S. Peirce, Coherence, Concordance, Congruence, Consensus, Convergence, Correspondence, Dewey, Fixation of Belief, Information, Inquiry, John Dewey, Kant, Logic, Logic of Science, Method, Peirce, Philosophy, Pragmatic Maxim, Pragmatism, Semiotics, Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Truth, Truth Theory, William James | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Pragmatic Truth • 5

Posted on July 23, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Peirce on Reality, Signs, Truth Very little in Peirce’s thought can be understood in its proper light without understanding he thinks all thoughts are signs, and thus, according to his theory of thought, no thought is understandable outside the context … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 28

Posted on July 19, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Pragmatic Truth • Discussion • (26) • (27) Re: FB | Cybersemiotics • Richard Saunders RS: My intention was not to expand the correspondence theory of truth but to narrow it with specific constraints.  I think of it as … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 27

Posted on July 17, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 26 Re: FB | Cybersemiotics • Richard Saunders RS: Agreed, but given those qualifications (the perspective on facts qualified by the pragmatic maxim and the perspective on correspondence qualified by irreducible triadic relations) the pragmatic … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 26

Posted on July 16, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Pragmatic Truth • (1) • (2) Re: OEIS Wiki | Correspondence Theory Of Truth Re: FB | Inquiry Driven Systems • Richard Saunders RS: The pragmatic theory of truth seems to be a correspondence theory in which all the … Continue reading →

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