Tag Archives: Philosophy

Ask Meno Questions

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Richard Hake • Experiment by Argentinian Neuroscientists Suggests “Socratic” (i.e. “Platonic”) Dialogue Is An Educational Failure I would not have imagined it possible to read Plato’s Meno quite so literally as those inquirers did — but now I do … Continue reading →

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Nominalism and Essentialism are the Scylla and Charybdis that Pragmatism Must Navigate Its Middle Way Between

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Cf: Peirce List Discussion Earlier this summer, Ayşe Mermutlu posted a notice of Nathan Houser’s review of Paul Forster’s Peirce and the Threat of Nominalism to the Facebook page of the Charles S. Peirce Society and a brief discussion ensued. … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Maxim

Posted on August 7, 2008 by Jon Awbrey

The pragmatic maxim is a guideline for the practice of inquiry formulated by Charles Sanders Peirce. Serving as a normative recommendation or a regulative principle in the normative science of logic, its function is to guide the conduct of thought toward the achievement of its aims, advising the addressee on an optimal way of “attaining clearness of apprehension”. Continue reading →

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