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The Power of Peirce’s Thought : 1

I often wonder that more people do not avail themselves of the power of Peirce’s thought. “What are they afraid of?” I ask myself. I find myself asking it that way because there really does seem to be...

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The Power of Peirce’s Thought : 2

Re: Kirsti Määttänen You give a good description of the encounter with uncertainty, that unsettled state of mind that irks a person to inquire after new grounds of belief. Viewed in biological...

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The Power of Peirce’s Thought : 3

Re: Stephen Rose There are reasons why I felt compelled to stand back from the picture that others were painting — of opposing personal styles in the creative process and also in the wider intellectual...

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Pragmatic Theory Of Truth • 9

Re: Peirce List Discussion • CG • JA • CG • JA • CG To put things more plainly, it’s a routine observation that we have no need for moods and tenses in actually doing mathematics, that is, in...

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Pragmatic Theory Of Truth • 10

A paragraph from Kant and associated discussion I added to the Wikipedia article on the Correspondence Theory of Truth in June 2006 is useful at this point, and it serves to set up a corresponding...

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Pragmatic Theory Of Truth • 11

Re: Peirce List Discussion • CG • JA • CG • JA • CG • JA • CG One of the points I’ve been trying to make all along is that a person doesn’t normally need to make a working assumption explicit when it’s...

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Pragmatic Theory Of Truth • 12

Re: Peirce List Discussion • JFS • JFS • JAS • GF • JAS • GF I realize that iconolatry — just one of many forms of dyadic reductionism — runs too deep at present for most folks to appreciate this, but...

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 12

Re: Peirce List Discussion • Kirsti Määttänen I have a sense of what Peirce meant by the “Logic of Science” and what Dewey meant by calling Logic the “Theory of Inquiry”.  If that’s logic in the narrow...

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 13

I would like to return to a point where the paths of discussion began to diverge and then bifurcated so chaotically that I could not track them further, namely, here: Re: Peirce List Discussion • JA •...

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 14

Re: Peirce List Discussion : John Sowa We find ourselves at the thresh-old of yet another recurring discussion, this time concerning Peirce’s use of the adjectives formal and quasi-necessary with...

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 15

Re: Peirce List Discussion • JA • GF One could hardly dispute the importance of logical implication relations like   Their set-theoretic analogues are subset relations like which are almost the...

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 16

Re: Peirce List Discussion • JA • JFS JFS: For those of us who are trying to convince modern students to study Peirce, we need to become bilingual.  We need to show how his terminology and notations...

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 17

Re: Peirce List Discussion • JA • GF • JFS • JLRC • JA • JFS • GF A rather amusing, if slightly ominous illustration of the point I am trying to make here has just popped up in the daily mayhem.  Let’s...

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Pragmatic Theory Of Truth • 16

Re: Pragmatic Theory Of Truth • 14 Re: Peirce List • Tom Gollier Staying focused on a set objective has never been my strong point so let me emblazon the following emblem by way of keeping my eyes on...

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Pragmatic Theory Of Truth • 17

Re: Pragmatic Theory Of Truth • (14) • (16) Re: Peirce List • Tom Gollier I meant to write more last time but got waylaid by an onslaught of weather and progress on this topic is likely to be glacial...

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Pragmatic Theory Of Truth • 18

Re: Pragmatic Theory Of Truth • (14) • (16) • (17) Re: Peirce List • Tom Gollier We do not live in axiom systems.  We do not live encased in languages, formal or natural.  There is no reason to think...

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Pragmatic Theory Of Truth • 19

Going over the last few month’s posts about signs, systems, and theories of truth I see many unanswered questions deserving of further attention.  Seasonal diversions being what they are my mind will...

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Pragmatic Theory Of Truth • 20

Re: Renaissance Mathematicus • Thony Christie Re: Cybernetic Communications • Louis Kauffman Re: FB | Charles S. Peirce Society • John Corcoran Various conceptions of belief in relation to pragmatic...

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Pragmatic Theory Of Truth • 21

Re: Cybernetic Communications • Klaus Krippendorff I appreciate the way Klaus Krippendorff immediately extracted one of the overarching themes of Peirce’s whole paper, indeed of his whole work.  That...

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Pragmatic Theory Of Truth • 22

Re: Systems Science • Scott Jackson Discussions of “thinking and flawed decisions” arising in the Systems Science Working Group naturally brought the topic of Pragmatic Truth and all its bedeviled...

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