Tag Archives: Scientific Method

The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 7

Posted on May 31, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • GF • GF • GR In our “Inquiry as Action : Risk of Inquiry” paper, originally presented at a conference on “Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences”, Susan and I sought to trace the interminglings of signs … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 6

Posted on May 30, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Gary Fuhrman The uses to which Susan Awbrey and I turned Aristotle’s passage from De Interp can be found in our paper from 1992/1995. Awbrey, J.L., and Awbrey, S.M. (1992), “Interpretation as Action : The Risk of … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 5

Posted on May 17, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Gary Richmond When I think back to the conceptual changes my first university physics courses put me through, a single unifying theme emerges.  Relativity Theory and Quantum Mechanics had a way of making the observer an active … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 4

Posted on May 14, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Mike Bergman The mathematical perspectives and theories that made modern physics possible, perhaps even inevitable, were developed by many mathematicians, both abstract and applied, all throughout the 19th Century.  There was a definite sea change in … Continue reading →

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Survey of Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 1

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of blog and wiki posts on three elementary forms of inference, as recognized by a logical tradition extending from Aristotle through Charles S. Peirce.  Particular attention is paid to the way these inferential rudiments combine to … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 3

Posted on February 28, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

It was fifty years ago this month that I first came North to Michigan, prospecting for a college to enter in the Fall.  I reached East Lansing in the middle of what would later be regaled as the Blizzard of … Continue reading →

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Survey of Semiotic Theory Of Information • 2

Posted on February 27, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of previous blog and wiki posts on the Semiotic Theory Of Information.  All my projects are exploratory in essence but this line of inquiry is more open-ended than most.  The question is: What is information and how … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 2

Posted on February 8, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: A Flash From The Past ⚡⚡⚡ My mind keeps flashing back to the days when I first encountered Peirce’s thought.  It was so fresh, it spoke to me like no other thinker’s thought I knew, and it held so … Continue reading →

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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Comment 6

Posted on October 28, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Note.  This is a placeholder, to be developed later. Figure 2 shows the implication ordering of logical terms in the form of a lattice diagram. Figure 2. Disjunctive Term u, Taken as Subject Reference Peirce, C.S. (1866), “The Logic of … Continue reading →

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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Comment 5

Posted on September 30, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Let’s stay with Peirce’s example of abductive inference a little longer and try to clear up the more troublesome confusions tending to arise. Figure 1 shows the implication ordering of logical terms in the form of a lattice diagram. Figure … Continue reading →

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