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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 4

Posted on March 16, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Jerry Rhee (quoting Peirce) The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate, is what we mean by the truth, and the object represented in this opinion is the real.  (CP 5.407, … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 3

Posted on March 14, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Val Daniel I propose that we complete the customary (incomplete/dyadic) theories of truth, viz., by consensus and by correspondence, by adding, Truth by “concordance” (what you, Jon, call “triple correspondence”). Proposal accepted!  Actually, I feel like I’ve … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 2

Posted on March 14, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List | Truth As Regulative Or Real • CG • JFS • JLRC I’ve been reviewing the old articles mentioned in my last post and the more I look at them the more I think they might be … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 1

Posted on March 11, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List | Truth As Regulative Or Real • CG • JLRC • JAS • JBD • JA • JFS Cf: Peirce List | Pragmatic Theory Of Truth • JA Comment 1 Folks who were around a dozen years … 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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Survey of Relation Theory • 3

Posted on January 17, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

In this Survey of blog and wiki posts on Relation Theory, relations are viewed from the perspective of combinatorics, in other words, as a topic in discrete mathematics, with special attention to finite structures and concrete set-theoretic constructions, many of … Continue reading →

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Peirce and Democracy • 2

Posted on December 30, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Gary Richmond • Helmut Raulien • John Sowa • Jon Awbrey The essential reading for understanding the unbridled avarice of capitalism — how the Gospel Of Greed takes root in the hearts of those who set … Continue reading →

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