Tag Archives: Inquiry

Survey of Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • 5

Posted on January 26, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

C.S. Peirce defines logic as “formal semiotic”, using formal to highlight the place of logic as a normative science, over and above the descriptive study of signs and their role in wider fields of play.  Understanding logic as Peirce understands … Continue reading →

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Survey of Cybernetics • 4

Posted on January 25, 2024 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 →

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Survey of Definition and Determination • 3

Posted on January 24, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

In the early 1990s, “in the middle of life’s journey” as the saying goes, I returned to grad school in a systems engineering program with the idea of taking a more systems-theoretic approach to my development of Peircean themes, from … Continue reading →

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The object of reasoning is to find out …

Posted on January 23, 2024 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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In the Way of Inquiry • Discussion 1

Posted on January 15, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Re: In the Way of Inquiry • Justification Trap Re: Academia.edu • Bhupinder Singh Anand BSA: Thanks for highlighting what I perceive as some challenging issues in the foundations of what we seek to term as “Knowledge” and “Truth”.  … … Continue reading →

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Inquiry Into Inquiry • Discussion 9

Posted on August 19, 2023 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Pragmatic Maxim Re: Academia.edu • Milo Gardner MG: Do you agree that Peirce was limited to bivalent logic? Taking classical logic as a basis for reasoning is no more limiting than taking Dedekind cuts as a basis for constructing … Continue reading →

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Inquiry Into Inquiry • Discussion 8

Posted on August 18, 2023 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Inquiry Into Inquiry • Discussion 7 Re: Academia.edu • Milo Gardner MG: Peirce sensed that bivalent syntax was superceded by trivalent syntax, but never resolved that nagging question. The main thing is not a question of syntax but a … Continue reading →

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Inquiry Into Inquiry • Discussion 7

Posted on August 17, 2023 by Jon Awbrey

Dan Everett has prompted a number of discussions on Facebook recently which touch on core issues in Peirce’s thought — but threads ravel on and fray so quickly in that medium one rarely gets a chance to fill out the … Continue reading →

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Survey of Pragmatic Semiotic Information • 7

Posted on July 23, 2023 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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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Ψ

Posted on July 22, 2023 by Jon Awbrey

I remember it was back in ’76 when I began to notice a subtle shift of focus in the computer science journals I was reading, from discussing X to discussing Information About X, a transformation I noted mentally as whenever … Continue reading →

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