Tag Archives: Semiotics

Peirce’s Categories • 2

Posted on October 31, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Jeffrey Brian Downard • Gary Richmond • John Collier According to Peirce, it is logic that draws on both mathematics and phenomenology. At any rate, Peirce takes the distinctive position that normative science, which includes logic, … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s Categories • 1

Posted on October 30, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Jeffrey Brian Downard Just from my experience, the best first approach to questions of firstness, secondness, thirdness, and so on is to regard k-ness as the property that all k-adic relations possess in common.  There is … Continue reading →

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What Makes An Object? • 2

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussison • (1) • (2) Visual metaphors and perceptual analogies can be instructive — they make for most of my personal favorites — but in logic, mathematics, and science our interest extends through the abductive spectrum, from … Continue reading →

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What Makes An Object? • 1

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Gary Fuhrman • Seeing Things What makes an object is a perennial question. I can remember my physics professors bringing it up in a really big way when I was still just a freshman in college.  They always cautioned … Continue reading →

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You Say “Réseau” • I Say “Rousseau” • 3

Posted on September 21, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Michael Harris • My Réseau • Networks in Action in French Economics Readers of Peirce know the concept of community is integral to his treatment of inquiry, interpretation, knowledge, reality, and truth.  The following statement is a nice résumé … Continue reading →

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You Say “Réseau” • I Say “Rousseau” • 2

Posted on September 20, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Michael Harris • My Réseau • Networks in Action in French Economics No true Peircean could fail to be reminded of the following statement whenever the subjects of community or reality come up. The real, then, is that which, … Continue reading →

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You Say “Réseau” • I Say “Rousseau” • 1

Posted on September 18, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Michael Harris • My Réseau • Networks in Action in French Economics The above two posts by Michael Harris sparked a series of reflections that I have yet to reign in fully but I thought I might pause a … Continue reading →

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In the Way of Inquiry • Objections to Reflexive Inquiry

Posted on September 17, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Inquiry begins when an automatic routine or normal course of activity is interrupted and agents are thrown into doubt concerning what is best to do next and what is really true of their situation.  If this interruptive aspect of inquiry … Continue reading →

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In the Way of Inquiry • Reconciling Accounts

Posted on September 16, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

The Reader may share with the Author a feeling of discontent at this point, attempting to reconcile the formal intentions of this inquiry with the cardinal contentions of experience.  Let me try to express the difficulty in the form of … Continue reading →

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In the Way of Inquiry • Material Exigency

Posted on September 16, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Our survey of obstacles to inquiry has dealt at length with blocks arising from its formal aspects.  On the other hand, I have cast this project as an empirical inquiry, proposing to represent experimental hypotheses in the form of computer … Continue reading →

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