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C.S. Peirce • The Proper Treatment of Hypotheses

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Selection from C.S. Peirce, “Hume On Miracles” (1901), CP 6.522–547 530.   Now the testing of a hypothesis is usually more or less costly. Not infrequently the whole life’s labor of a number of able men is required to disprove a … Continue reading →

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Wherefore Aught?

Posted on June 1, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • Why Is There Something? Here is another one of those eternally recurring ideas echoed inimitably by C.S. Peirce in his sketch of a Cosmogonic Philosophy. It would suppose that in the beginning,—infinitely remote,—there was … Continue reading →

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The Power of Peirce’s Thought • 3

Posted on October 6, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Stephen Rose There are reasons why I felt compelled to stand back from the picture that others were painting — of opposing personal styles in the creative process and also in the wider intellectual landscape — and to seek … Continue reading →

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The Power of Peirce’s Thought • 2

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Kirsti Määttänen You give a good description of the encounter with uncertainty, that unsettled state of mind that irks a person to inquire after new grounds of belief.  Viewed in biological perspective, it is only natural that evolution associates … Continue reading →

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The Power of Peirce’s Thought • 1

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

I often wonder that more people do not avail themselves of the power of Peirce’s thought.  “What are they afraid of?” I ask myself.  I find myself asking it that way because there really does seem to be a persistent … Continue reading →

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Two Ideals

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Two ideals are struggling for supremacy in American life today: one the industrial ideal, dominating thru the supremacy of commercialism, which subordinates the worker to the product and the machine; the other, the ideal of democracy, the ideal of the … Continue reading →

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C.S. Peirce • Of Triadic Being

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Selection from C.S. Peirce, “Some Amazing Mazes, Fourth Curiosity” (c. 1909) Of triadic Being the multitude of forms is so terrific that I have usually shrunk from the task of enumerating them; and for the present purpose such an enumeration would … Continue reading →

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C.S. Peirce • Logic as Semiotic

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Selection from C.S. Peirce, “Ground, Object, and Interpretant” (c. 1897) Logic, in its general sense, is, as I believe I have shown, only another name for semiotic (σημειωτική), the quasi-necessary, or formal, doctrine of signs.  By describing the doctrine as … Continue reading →

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C.S. Peirce • The Reality of Thirdness

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Selections from C.S. Peirce, “Lowell Lectures of 1903”, CP 1.343–349 343.   We may say that the bulk of what is actually done consists of Secondness — or better, Secondness is the predominant character of what has been done.  The immediate … Continue reading →

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C.S. Peirce • Objective Logic

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Selections from C.S. Peirce, “Minute Logic” (1902), CP 2.111–118 111.   With Speculative Rhetoric, Logic, in the sense of Normative Semeotic, is brought to a close.  But now we have to examine whether there be a doctrine of signs corresponding to … Continue reading →

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