Tag Archives: Phenomenology

Peirce’s Categories • 4

Posted on May 11, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussions • (1) • (2) • (3) • (4) • (5) Let me state a few principles that have guided me in my efforts to read and understand Peirce for the past fifty years. There is a … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s Categories • 3

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Recent travels and other travails (dental work) have scattered my thoughts to the four winds, so let me just document a few bits from my current state of mind in case I can get back to it … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s Categories • 2

Posted on October 31, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Jeffrey Brian Downard • Gary Richmond • John Collier According to Peirce, it is logic that draws on both mathematics and phenomenology. At any rate, Peirce takes the distinctive position that normative science, which includes logic, … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s Categories • 1

Posted on October 30, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Jeffrey Brian Downard Just from my experience, the best first approach to questions of firstness, secondness, thirdness, and so on is to regard k-ness as the property that all k-adic relations possess in common.  There is … Continue reading →

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C.S. Peirce • Syllabus • Selection 2

Posted on October 4, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

But round about the castle there began to grow a hedge of thorns, which every year became higher, and at last grew close up round the castle and all over it, so that there was nothing of it to be … Continue reading →

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C.S. Peirce • Syllabus • Selection 1

Posted on August 24, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Selection from C.S. Peirce, “A Syllabus of Certain Topics of Logic” (1903) An Outline Classification of the Sciences 180.   This classification, which aims to base itself on the principal affinities of the objects classified, is concerned not with all … Continue reading →

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Definition and Determination • 9

Posted on September 12, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Cathy O’Neil • The Art of Definition In classical logical traditions the concepts of definition and determination are closely related and their bond acquires all the more force if you view the overarching concept of constraint from an information-theoretic … Continue reading →

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What It Is

Posted on April 13, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Gil Kalai If I remember my long ago readings well enough, Jimmy the Ancient Greek could lay odds as well as any modern bookmaker on the outcomes of Olympic contests, but that was not really the point of Zeno’s … Continue reading →

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Slip Slidin’ Away

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

And you give me the choice between a description that is sure but that teaches me nothing and hypotheses that claim to teach me but that are not sure. — Albert Camus • The Myth of Sisyphus Re: R.J. Lipton … Continue reading →

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Definition and Determination • 8

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Jim Willgoose (1) (2) The most general meaning of “formal” is “concerned with form”, but the Latin “forma” can mean “beauty” in addition to “form”, so perhaps a normative “goodness of form” enters at this root. … Continue reading →

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