Tag Archives: Inquiry

Icon Index Symbol • 20

Posted on January 11, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed For Signs Re: FB | Semiotics, Books, Links, News • Jon Awbrey • Dalibor Lošťák JA: Icon, Index, Symbol and all other classifications are ideal types abstracted from concrete signs and there are no pure … Continue reading →

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Icon Index Symbol • 19

Posted on January 10, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed For Signs Re: Peirce List • Steven Skaggs SS: As far as visual semiotics is concerned, it is helpful to think of a “terrain” or map of a semantic mode territory in which of icon-index-symbol form … Continue reading →

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Icon Index Symbol • 18

Posted on January 8, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed For Signs Re: FB | Semiotics, Books, Links, News • Muntadher Almahdawi Another one of those recurring questions just came up in a Facebook group devoted to Semiotics and I thought it would be useful … Continue reading →

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Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems • 3

Posted on December 27, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of blog and wiki posts 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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Abduction, Action, Adaptive Systems, Aristotle, Artificial Intelligence, Automated Research Tools, Change, Cognitive Science, Communication, Cybernetics, Deduction, Descartes, Dewey, Discovery, Doubt, Education, Educational Systems Design, Educational Technology, Fixation of Belief, Induction, Information, Information Theory, Inquiry, Inquiry Driven Systems, Inquiry Into Inquiry, Intelligent Systems, Interpretation, Invention, Kant, Knowledge, Learning, Learning Theory, Logic, Logic of Science, Mathematics, Mental Models, Peirce, Pragmatic Maxim, Pragmatism, Process Thinking, Scientific Inquiry, Semiotics, Sign Relations, Surveys, Teaching, Triadic Relations, Visualization | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 18 Comments

Inquiry Driven Systems • Comment 6

Posted on December 25, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peter Cameron • Publication : An Author’s View Dear Peter, It’s funny you should mention Tennyson’s poem in the context of an author’s view of publication as I once laid out a detailed interpretation of the poem as a … Continue reading →

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Survey of Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 2

Posted on December 16, 2020 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 these inferential rudiments combine to … Continue reading →

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 30

Posted on December 15, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Richard J. Lipton • The Future Of Mathematics? • Is The End Near? Re: “Proofs Are Not As Important As Discoveries” (PANAIAD). Conjecture and Discovery fall under the heading of Abductive Inference (AI’s missing grape). About which more when I pull … Continue reading →

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Problems In Philosophy • 12

Posted on November 10, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • The Night Of The Ethical Algorithm Re: K.W. Regan • The Election Night Time Warp Re: Ontolog Forum • John Sowa JFS: C.S. Peirce made a very clear and sharp distinction between formal … Continue reading →

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Problems In Philosophy • 11

Posted on November 9, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Problems In Philosophy 9 • Richard Saunders RS: BTW I’m not sure I really see a distinction between descriptive and normative (prescriptive?) science except in the set of aims, goals, etc. that are entertained.  It might be useful to try … Continue reading →

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Problems In Philosophy • 10

Posted on November 7, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • David Whitten DW: Why does classical tradition or any tradition consider logic to be a normative science? Dear David, A science is called that because it deals in knowledge (Latin scientia).  Knowing what is the case … Continue reading →

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