Tag Archives: Semiotics

Ask Meno Questions • Discussion 1

Re: Victoria N. Alexander I think you are stating several important insights. The word object in pragmatism and pragmatic semiotics has a much wider range of meanings than the extremely reductive sense of a “compact physical object”.  Anyone wishing to … Continue reading

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Ask Meno Questions • Chrysalis

Chrysalis Memories of being held       In closely knit spheres And guided beyond the orbits       Of childhood fears Entrusted with a word       That rustles in a breath And warrants respect for       The not yet beautiful In Honor of My Parents’ Golden … Continue reading

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Pragmatics, Enthymeme, Rhetoric, Semiotics

Re: Peirce List • 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 account, … Continue reading

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 1

Here are several excursions I made into the subjects of Abduction, Deduction, Induction, and Analogy, comparing Peirce’s first formulations with those in Aristotle and focusing on the ways those patterns of inference fit into the Cycle of Inquiry.  Much of … Continue reading

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C.S. Peirce • New Elements (Καινὰ Στοιχεῖα) • Comment 1

Re: Peirce List • (1) • (2) Re: C.S. Peirce • New Elements (Καινὰ Στοιχεῖα) • 1 Interest in the reading of Peirce’s “New Elements” appears to be flagging of late, so I thought I might spice things up by … Continue reading

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C.S. Peirce • New Elements (Καινὰ Στοιχεῖα) • 1

Selections from C.S. Peirce, “New Elements (Καινὰ Στοιχεῖα)” Editors’ Headnote from The Essential Peirce, Volume 2 MS 517.  [First published in NEM 4:235–63.  This document was most probably written in early 1904, as a preface to an intended book on … Continue reading

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Higher Order Sign Relations • 1

When interpreters reflect on their use of signs they require an appropriate technical language in which to pursue their reflections.  They need signs referring to sign relations, signs referring to elements and components of sign relations, and signs referring to … Continue reading

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Notes on the Foundations of Mathematics • 2

Selections from R.L. Wilder, Introduction to the Foundations of Mathematics I.   The Axiomatic Method Since the axiomatic method as it is now understood and practiced by mathematicians is the result of a long evolution in human thought, we shall … Continue reading

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Notes on the Foundations of Mathematics • 1

Re: Peirce List Discussions 2012 • (1) • (2) • (3) • (4) Cf: Previous Discussions 2005–2006 • (A) • (B) • (C) I will have to be off and on the internet for the next month or so, and … Continue reading

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Approaching Peirce

I gradually grow accustomed to the distinct possibility that there will always be different readings, and even divergent interpretations of Peirce’s writings. Some of that appears to be a two- or three-cultures issue — the readings that befit aesthetic, cultural, … Continue reading

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