Tag Archives: Rhetoric

All Liar, No Paradox • Comment 1

Posted on August 2, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

A statement asserts that a statement is a statement that is false. The statement violates an axiom of logic, so it doesn’t really matter whether the ostensible statement the so-called liar, really is a statement or has a truth value. … Continue reading →

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All Liar, No Paradox

Posted on August 1, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

A statement asserts that a statement is a statement that is false. The statement violates an axiom of logic, so it doesn’t really matter whether the ostensible statement the so-called liar, really is a statement or has a truth value.

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Zeroth Law Of Semiotics • Comment 2

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Edwina Taborsky My old avatar 0* (Zero-Aster) does incline to laconic verses but I hope to address a class of concrete applications which will serve to unpack their sense. The main thing I wish to communicate … Continue reading →

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Zeroth Law Of Semiotics • Comment 1

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

New discussions of the so-called “Liar Paradox” have broken out at several places on the web in recent weeks, just to mention a couple of cases: Foundations Of Mathematics (FOM) • The Liar Revenge Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP • … Continue reading →

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Zeroth Law Of Semiotics

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Meaning is a privilege not a right. Not all pictures depict. Not all signs denote. Never confuse a property of a sign, just for instance, existence, with a sign of a property, for instance, existence. Taking a property of a … Continue reading →

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Pragmatics, Enthymeme, Rhetoric, Semiotics

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • Kirsti Määttänen Aristotle’s approach to rhetoric is one of the bridges to Peirce’s pragmatism.  It treats forms of argument that “consider the audience”, in effect, that take the nature and condition of the interpreter into … Continue reading →

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These are the times that try men’s soles

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

You see, even though back then Barack was a Senator and a presidential candidate … to me, he was still the guy who’d picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually … Continue reading →

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Pseudo-Choice

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Choices at one level of freedom depend on enabling or prerequisite choices being available at more basic levels of freedom. A situation of Pseudo-Choice is created when you offer people a choice at a high level of freedom without ensuring … Continue reading →

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Modus Dolens

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

A yet innominate mode of inference has become so frequent in certain quarters that the time has come to fashion a suitable name for it. The scheme of thought in question goes a bit like this: If A, then B. … Continue reading →

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