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Icon, Likeness, Likely Story, Likelihood, Probability : 1
Re: Benjamin Udell • Michael Shapiro Here’s a likely locus classicus for “icon” in its logical sense: A probability (εικος) is not the same as a sign (σηµειον). The former is a generally accepted...
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Icon, Likeness, Likely Story, Likelihood, Probability : 2
Re: Phyllis Chiasson I’m still a bit fuzzy on how Aristotle’s account relates to Peirce’s usage, though I’m pretty sure Peirce must have taken Aristotle’s usage into account, but it does seem that...
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Icon, Likeness, Likely Story, Likelihood, Probability : 3
Re: Phyllis Chiasson A more complete excerpt and the translator’s notes are very helpful here. A probability (εικος) is not the same as a sign (σηµειον). The former is a generally accepted premiss ;...
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C.S. Peirce • Syllabus • Selection 2
But round about the castle there began to grow a hedge of thorns, which every year became higher, and at last grew close up round the castle and all over it, so that there was nothing of it to be...
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Objective Frameworks • Properties and Instances : 1
Dealing with sign relations that contain many types of signs — icons, indices, symbols, and more complex types — is a task that calls for a flexible and powerful organizational framework, one with the...
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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Selection 3
Yet there are combinations of words and combinations of conceptions which are not strictly speaking symbols. These are of two kinds of which I will give you instances. We have first cases like: man...
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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Selection 4
Accordingly, if we are engaged in symbolizing and we come to such a proposition as “Neat, swine, sheep, and deer are herbivorous”, we know firstly that the disjunctive term may be replaced by a true...
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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Selection 5
A similar line of thought may be gone through in reference to hypothesis. In this case we must start with the consideration of the term: spherical, bright, fragrant, juicy, tropical fruit. Such a...
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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Selection 6
We have now seen how the mind is forced by the very nature of inference itself to make use of induction and hypothesis. But the question arises how these conclusions come to receive their...
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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Comment 1
At this point in his inventory of scientific reasoning, Peirce is relating the nature of inference, information, and inquiry to the character of the signs mediating the process in question, a process...
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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Comment 2
Let’s examine Peirce’s second example of a disjunctive term — neat, swine, sheep, deer — within the style of lattice framework that we used before. Hence if we find out that neat are herbivorous, swine...
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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Comment 3
Peirce identifies inference with a process he describes as symbolization. Let us consider what that might imply. I am going, next, to show that inference is symbolization and that the puzzle of the...
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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Comment 4
There are still many things that puzzle me about Peirce’s account at this point. I indicated a few of them by means of question marks at several places in the last two Figures. There is nothing for...
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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Comment 5
Let’s stay with Peirce’s example of abductive inference a little longer and try to clear up the more troublesome confusions that tend to arise. Figure 1 shows the implication ordering of logical terms...
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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Comment 6
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...
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Survey of Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 1
This is a Survey of blog and wiki posts on three elementary forms of inference, as recognized by a logical tradition that extends from Aristotle through C.S. Peirce. Particular attention is paid to...
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Icon Index Symbol • 1
Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed For Signs Re: Peirce List Discussion • Jerry Rhee How best do you distinguish between these terms? What settles it? These very questions arose at the...
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Icon Index Symbol • 2
Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed For Signs Re: Peirce List Discussion • Jon Alan Schmidt What class of Sign is a law of nature? I’ve mentioned the following possibility several times...
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Icon Index Symbol • 3
Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed For Signs Re: Peirce List Discussion • Kirsti Määttänen Seems valid to me. But it does not answer the quest for understanding. The setup described in the...
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Icon Index Symbol • 4
Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed For Signs Re: Peirce List Discussion • Helmut Raulien One thing I always say at these junctures is that people really ought to take Peirce’s advice and...
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