Tag Archives: Pragmatism

Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Discussion 5

Posted on November 9, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • (5) • (7) Re: FB | Semeiotics • Gary Herstein Continuing questions about “infinite semiosis” vs. “unbounded semiosis” prompt me to make another comment by way of bringing our focus to bear on the … Continue reading →

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Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Discussion 4

Posted on November 7, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Discussion 2 It’s a common mistake to confound infinite with unbounded.  A process can continue without end and still be “bounded in a nutshell”.  So a sign process can pass from sign to interpretant … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 14

Posted on November 6, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Cybernetic Communications • Stephen Paul King There are many conceptions of truth — linguistic, model-theoretic, proof-theoretic — for the moment I’m focused on cybernetics, systems, and experimental sciences and this is where the pragmatic conception of truth fits what … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 13

Posted on November 3, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: FB | Charles S. Peirce Society • John Corcoran I looked at John Corcoran’s contribution on “Formalizing Pragmatic Truth” but did not see anything near enough what I’d recognize as a pragmatic theory of truth. Pragmatic inquiry into a … Continue reading →

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Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Discussion 3

Posted on October 30, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Questions about the use of “semiotic triangles” and “semiotic triskelia” to represent triadic sign relations have come up again, as they often do in the wider world, prompting me to revisit an earlier comment on the subject and to tri, … Continue reading →

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Survey of Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • 1

Posted on October 29, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of blog and wiki resources on the theory of signs, variously known as semeiotic or semiotics, and the actions referred to as semiosis which transform signs among themselves in relation to their objects, all as based … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 32

Posted on October 27, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: FB | Foundations of Mathematics • John Corcoran There was a huge — and of course ultimately futile — discussion of truth theories back in 2005 when the Wikipediot article on Truth was under development.  Pragmatists of one stripe … Continue reading →

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Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Discussion 2

Posted on October 26, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Richard Coyne • Recursion Again It’s a common mistake to confound infinite with unbounded.  A process can continue without end and still be “bounded in a nutshell”.  So a sign process can pass from sign to interpretant sign to … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 31

Posted on October 21, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

One of the more disconcerting developments, I might say “devolutions”, I’ve observed over the last 20 years has been the general slippage back to absolutist and dyadic ways of thinking, all of it due to the stubborn pull of unchecked reductionism … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 30

Posted on October 18, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Mihai Nadin Re: Peirce List • Helmut Raulien I first encountered Peirce’s dimensions of generality and vagueness — two measures of determinacy on sign relations describing the extent to which objects are determined by signs and … Continue reading →

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