Tag Archives: Philosophy

A Meno Acid

Posted on March 21, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

What answers to the Meno Paradox Comes in the moment of realizing — Gathering together the building blocks Is just the beginning of the building.

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Château Descartes

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

But if we are to select those dimensions which will be of the greatest assistance to our imagination, we should never attend to more than one or two of them as depicted in our imagination, even though we are well … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 1

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Being one who does not view Peirce’s work as a flickering foreshadowing of analytic philosophy, logical whatevism, or anything else you want to call it, but leans more to thinking of the latter philosophies as fumbling fallbacks losing what ground … Continue reading →

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Ask Meno Questions • Code Meno Code

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Adapted from Prospects for Inquiry Driven Systems The Trees, The Forest A sticking point of the whole discussion has just been reached. In the idyllic setting of a knowledge field the question of systematic inquiry takes on the following form: … Continue reading →

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Plato’s Puppet Returns

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peter Cameron • Discovery and Invention Between the discovery and the invention, Falls the Shadow, who knows, you know, By tracking backward, retracing the steps Of the tourist, who comes not to conquer, But to enjoy the winding stair … Continue reading →

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“Is it possible to advance philosophy today?”

Posted on November 25, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Stephen Rose Is it possible to advance philosophy today?  To do so, one would have to use terms that appear to have evolved in different disciplines to a point where dialog is almost impossible, even when desired. I suppose … Continue reading →

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Ask Meno Questions • Discussion 3

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Stephen Rose In Aristotle’s De Anima or “On the Soul” there is a fine articulation of the universal join between the body and the soul, one so embedded in the marrow of our culture that it moves and shapes … Continue reading →

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Ask Meno Questions • Discussion 2

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Victoria N. Alexander I tend to favor that general way of speaking, having been brought up on classical cybernetics, optimal control, and systems theory, where we think of a system as passing through its state space, controlled by its … Continue reading →

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Ask Meno Questions • Discussion 1

Posted on October 14, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Victoria N. Alexander I think you are stating several important insights. The word object in pragmatism and pragmatic semiotics has a much wider range of meanings than the extremely reductive sense of a “compact physical object”.  Anyone wishing to … Continue reading →

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Ask Meno Questions • Chrysalis

Posted on October 14, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Chrysalis Memories of being held       In closely knit spheres And guided beyond the orbits       Of childhood fears Entrusted with a word       That rustles in a breath And warrants respect for       The not yet beautiful In Honor of My Parents’ Golden … Continue reading →

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