#interpreter — Public Fediverse posts

Continuano gli esperimenti con Claude AI. Creare un interprete di linguaggio C e anche un compilatore/linker per Windows sono alla portata di Claude Sonnet 4.6 in versione gratuita? Scopriamolo assieme in questo video! #clanguage #artificialintelligence #claudeai #compiler #interpreter #x86 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHHHjynC8Zg

Here's a #language #interpreter from my 20 years in #JavaScript #development: https://www.marquisdegeek.com/forth I wrote this Forth interpreter because I
love both it, and the #JupiterAce. I released it on May 4th. Source at
https://github.com/MarquisdeGeek/jedi #starwars

A few years ago, I wrote my first #go program, and it became a full-time job. I learned a lot since, so I re-wrote it from scratch, my beloved #golang #interpreter. https://marc.vertes.org/announcing-mvm/

How to Make a Fast Dynamic Language Interpreter

https://zef-lang.dev/implementation

#HackerNews #dynamiclanguage #interpreter #programming #language #development #performance #optimization

Fellow #infocom text adventure fans, the newest #Vezza #zmachine #interpreter is now available for the #Amstrad #NC200 running CPMish. Using the glorious built in LCD display at 79x18 characters, it was a lot of fun to build. Special mention to Matthew Logue for not only requesting the NC200 version and providing platform information, but also for sending me a huge amount of photos from real hardware so I could debug, and doing a complete play though of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to prove it worked.
#retrogaming #retrogaming

🤔 Oh, an #interpreter in 500 lines? Impressive, but isn't that what *Python* already does? 🐍 Could have just written "I made a snake eat itself" and saved us the time. 📚 Plus, there's a Simplified Chinese version, just in case you wanted to be confused in multiple languages! 😜
https://aosabook.org/en/500L/a-python-interpreter-written-in-python.html #Python #programming #SimplifiedChinese #techhumor #coding #HackerNews #ngated

Пишем свой диалект LISP

Привет, Хабр и читатели! Сегодня я попытаюсь сделать с вами диалект LISP. Я думаю, что я достаточно хорошо понимаю как его сделать. Мы реализуем там TCO, FEXPR функции и dynamic scoping.

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1019858/

#lisp #interpreter #python #python3 #tutorial #diy

Matt just discovered that writing a #tail-call #interpreter in #Rust is surprisingly fun! 🎉 Apparently, outperforming his own #ARM64 #assembly is no big deal. Let's all pretend seven months counts as "recent" in Rust-land! 🕰️
https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2026-04-05-tailcall/ #Programming #Fun #Hacker #News #HackerNews #ngated

A tail-call interpreter in (nightly) Rust

https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2026-04-05-tailcall/

#HackerNews #A #tail-call #interpreter #in #(nightly) #Rust #Rust #Programming #Tail #Call #Optimization #Interpreter #Development #Hacker #News

Я сделал язык программирования ради статьи на Хабр

Меня зовут Степан, я C# профессионал уже более 7 лет на рынке и рассказываю об этом в Telegram каналe StepOne . Иногда мне скучно на работе, потому что перекладывать JSON это слишком просто, даже если микросервисы. Я отучился на системного программиста-компиляторщика и столкнулся с отсутствием спроса рынка на такие навыки. Но выбрал быть счастливым и написал язык программирования hydrascript , чтобы JSON гонялся даже в докере на макбуке. Решение под катом вас точно удивит! dotnet tool install hydrascript -g

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1010530/

#interpreter #compiler #backend #json #csharp #dotnet #roslyn #api #docker #cgi

🤦‍♂️ Ah yes, #Linux is an #interpreter now. Because who needs a perfectly functional kernel when you can make an OS behave like a wannabe shell script interpreter? 👻 Fear not, dear reader, the author promises you an inscrutable command that might just be #malware, but hey, that’s all part of the #fun, right? 🐔
https://astrid.tech/2026/03/28/0/linux-is-an-interpreter/ #ShellScript #HackerNews #ngated

Linux Is an Interpreter

https://astrid.tech/2026/03/28/0/linux-is-an-interpreter/

#HackerNews #Linux #Interpreter #OpenSource #TechNews #Programming

Parallel Perl – autoparallelizing interpreter with JIT

https://perl.petamem.com/gpw2026/perl-mit-ai-gpw2026.html#/4/1/1

#HackerNews #ParallelPerl #autoparallelizing #JIT #interpreter #programming #PerlAI

#MN #presser #ASL #interpreter #Klobuchar
I'm going to take this time to give kudos to the ASL interpreter who is doing a better job at signing than the lady I saw earlier at an earlier presser for this reason alone:

When ICE was mentioned, she signed "police"; this fellow here did not, and fingerspelled
"I C E". Good job, terp!

Just released funcity 1.0.0.

- Functional language processor for text processing.
- Pure interpreter engine in TypeScript, CLI interface and Playground browser page.
- Deployed in NPM packages.
- Easier embeddable engine in your TS application.

#typescript #functional #interpreter

https://github.com/kekyo/funcity/

FYI: My First Computers: Apple II and Commodore 64 BASIC #shorts: BASIC interpreters introduced many to computing. The Apple II and Commodore 64 would boot directly to a BASIC interpreter, launching many people's careers. #BASIC #interpreter #computers #AppleII #Commodore64 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fEEnfJyChtE

In the #Python programming language, the new #REPL from Python 3.13 (2024) has added colorization in the #interpreter in #interactive Python, similar to the interface seen in later versions of #PyPy. Python 3.14 (2025) and Python 3.15 (2026) continue along with the improved REPL with the colorization of the Python #syntax itself.

In the #Python programming language, the new #REPL from Python 3.13 (2024) has added colorization in the #interpreter in #interactive Python, similar to the interface seen in later versions of #PyPy. Python 3.14 (2025) and Python 3.15 (2026) continue along with the improved REPL with the colorization of the Python #syntax itself.

In the #Python programming language, the new #REPL from Python 3.13 (2024) has added colorization in the #interpreter in #interactive Python, similar to the interface seen in later versions of #PyPy. Python 3.14 (2025) and Python 3.15 (2026) continue along with the improved REPL with the colorization of the Python #syntax itself.

In the #Python programming language, the new #REPL from Python 3.13 (2024) has added colorization in the #interpreter in #interactive Python, similar to the interface seen in later versions of #PyPy. Python 3.14 (2025) and Python 3.15 (2026) continue along with the improved REPL with the colorization of the Python #syntax itself.

🎮📜 Behold, the magical "Interpreter" that promises to turn your retro Japanese gaming dreams into reality by translating on-screen text—because reading subtitles is just too mainstream. 😏✨ But remember, it's a #GitHub project, so expect to spend more time wrestling with command line instructions than actually playing games. 🙃💻
https://github.com/bquenin/interpreter #RetroGaming #Interpreter #CommandLine #GamingDreams #HackerNews #ngated

Interpreter – Offline screen translator for Japanese retro games

https://github.com/bquenin/interpreter

#HackerNews #Interpreter #Offline #screen #translator #Japanese #retro #games #GamingTech #GameDev

As a surprise Christmas gift to #retrocomputing, I've pushed out a new version of my #Vezza #Infocom #zmachine #interpreter. This time it's a #CP/M build, specifically for the #TRS80 models 2/12/16... on glorious 8-inch floppies. My requestor and tester Ziggystar12 was kind enough to take a photo of Bureaucracy running on a machine with the 8-inch drives; a game that could never be run on that machine before even though it was contemporary! #retrogaming #retroBattleStations

Cách tạo ngôn ngữ lập trình - Viết trình thông dịch đơn giản bằng Perk! Hướng dẫn chi tiết từ Reddit [r/programming]. Xem video tại YouTube và tham gia thảo luận. #Lậptrình #Interpreter #Viếtngônngữ #ProgrammingLanguage #DevTips

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1ptv10b/how_to_make_a_programming_language_writing_a/

ELF Crimes: Program Interpreter Fun

https://nytpu.com/gemlog/2025-12-21

#HackerNews #ELF #Crimes #Program #Interpreter #Fun #Hacker #News #Tech #Stories #Programming

ICYMI: My First Computers: Apple II and Commodore 64 BASIC #shorts: BASIC interpreters introduced many to computing. The Apple II and Commodore 64 would boot directly to a BASIC interpreter, launching many people's careers. #BASIC #interpreter #computers #AppleII #Commodore64 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fEEnfJyChtE

My First Computers: Apple II and Commodore 64 BASIC #shorts: BASIC interpreters introduced many to computing. The Apple II and Commodore 64 would boot directly to a BASIC interpreter, launching many people's careers. #BASIC #interpreter #computers #AppleII #Commodore64 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fEEnfJyChtE

Все главные нововведения Python 3.14: от JIT до инструментов отладки

Представьте: ваш Python-код работает на 30% быстрее благодаря JIT-компиляции, обработка запросов масштабируется на все ядра процессора без ограничений GIL, а отладка высоконагруженных систем происходит в реальном времени, без остановки продакшена. Это не футуристический сценарий “what-if” — это реальность Python 3.14, релиза, который переосмысливает саму природу разработки с высокой производительностью на Python.

https://habr.com/ru/companies/axenix/articles/970806/

#python #python314 #многопоточность #нововведения #gil #jit #отладка #zero_overhead #интерпритатор #interpreter

#Development #Collections
JavaScript engines zoo · Meet the creatures running your JavaScript code https://ilo.im/168g8q

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#Engine #EcmaScript #JavaScript #TypeScript #Browser #Rust #Interpreter #Compiler #WebDev #Backend

Tags are sets. Many apps support tagging of content, but most of them (incl. Mastodon) treat tags only as singular/isolated topic filters, akin to a flat folder-based approach. But tagging can be so, so much more powerful when treating tags as sets and offering users the possibility to combine and query tagged content as sets (think Venn diagrams), i.e. allowing tags to be combined using AND/OR/NOT aka intersection/union/difference operations...

Below is a simple query engine to do just that in ~40 lines of code (sans comments), incl. using an extensible interpreter for a simple Lisp-like S-Expression language to define arbitrarily complex nested tag queries (the code is actually lifted & simplified from my personal knowledge graph tooling, also talked about here recently[1]...)

https://gist.github.com/postspectacular/ff997a4f1016b17bbfe9beb989984ac3

For example, the query:

`(and (or 'Alps' 'PNW') (or 'LandscapePhotography' 'NaturePhotography') (not 'Monochrome'))`

...would select all items which have been tagged with `Alps` OR `PNW`, AND have at least one of the two photography tags given, but have NOT the `Monochrome` tag.

Whilst this syntax is probably alien-looking to the average user, it'd would be fairly straightforward to create visual/structural UIs for defining such queries (over the past 20 years I've done that myself several times already), heck even a SLM (small language model) could be used to translate natural language into such query expressions — what matters here is the widespread lack of treating tags this way in terms of conceptual/data modeling in most applications. Imagine being able to use hashtags this way on Mastodon to assemble personalized timelines (and extend the system to not just deal with hashtags, but other post metadata/provenance too)...

The code example illustrates how, with the right tools, such features are actually not hard to implement (or to integrate into existing apps). The example uses the following #ThingUmbrella packages for its key functionality:

- https://thi.ng/associative: Set-theory operations, custom Map/Set data types (unused here)
- https://thi.ng/lispy: Customizable/extensible S-expression parser, interpreter & runtime
- https://thi.ng/oquery: Optimized object and array pattern query engine

[1] https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/115497555185158157

#Tagging #Sets #QueryEngine #Lisp #Syntax #Parser #Interpreter #TypeScript #JavaScript

SPy: An interpreter and compiler for a fast statically typed variant of Python

https://antocuni.eu/2025/10/29/inside-spy-part-1-motivations-and-goals/

#HackerNews #SPy #Python #Interpreter #Compiler #Fast #Programming #Language

A Lisp Interpreter for Shell Scripting

https://github.com/gue-ni/redstart

#HackerNews #Lisp #Interpreter #ShellScripting #Programming #GitHub #Redstart

Optimizing Brainfuck interpreter in the C preprocessor

https://github.com/camel-cdr/bfcpp

#HackerNews #Optimizing #Brainfuck #interpreter #in #the #C #preprocessor #HackerNews #Brainfuck #Cpreprocessor #Optimization #Programming

eli – Embedded Lisp Interpreter

https://github.com/codr7/eli

#HackerNews #eli #EmbeddedLisp #Interpreter #Lisp #Programming #GitHub #OpenSource

#Linux base image -> filesystem layers -> #Docker image.

And this for every OS. Not just Linux.

#Windows and #macOS developers must have Docker sit on top of a mini Linux #VM to run the GNU/Linux toolset of anything they are working on.

Think about it. Any library, #interpreter, compiler the community laboriously made available to run #natively on your platform of choice is now useless. Because Docker runs on every platform. But in reality it executes only on top of Linux.

Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 10.2
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/11/interpreter-and-interpretant-selection-10-a/
• https://bsky.app/profile/inquiryintoinquiry.bsky.social/post/3lhyet3gfzk2c

In logical terms, the analogy of experience proceeds by inducing a Rule about the validity of a current knowledge base and then by deducing a Fact, the applicability of that knowledge base to a current experience.

Step 1 is Inductive, abstracting a Rule from a Case and a Fact.

• Case : E_past ⇒ E_poss, Chosen events fairly sample Collective events.
• Fact : E_past ⇒ K_pres, Chosen events support the Knowledge regime.
────────────────────────────────────────────────
• Rule : E_poss ⇒ K_pres, Collective events support the Knowledge regime.

Step 2 is Deductive, admitting a Case to a Rule and arriving at a Fact.

• Case : E_pres ⇒ E_poss, Current events fairly sample Collective events.
• Rule : E_poss ⇒ K_pres, Collective events support the Knowledge regime.
────────────────────────────────────────────────
• Fact : E_pres ⇒ K_pres, Current events support the Knowledge regime.

References —

Awbrey, J.L., and Awbrey, S.M. (1995), “Interpretation as Action : The Risk of Inquiry”, Inquiry : Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 15(1), 40–52.
• https://www.pdcnet.org/inquiryct/content/inquiryct_1995_0015_0001_0040_0052
• https://www.academia.edu/57812482/Interpretation_as_Action_The_Risk_of_Inquiry

Dewey, J. (1910), How We Think, D.C. Heath, Boston, MA. Reprinted (1991), Prometheus Books, Buffalo, NY.
• https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37423/37423-h/37423-h.htm

Resources —

Survey of Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/27/survey-of-abduction-deduction-induction-analogy-inquiry-4/

Survey of Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/26/survey-of-semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-5/

#Peirce #Logic #Semiotics #Semiosis #SignRelations
#JohnDewey #Interpreter #Interpretant #Pragmatism
#Abduction #Deduction #Induction #Analogy #Inquiry

Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 10.1
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/11/interpreter-and-interpretant-selection-10-a/
• https://bsky.app/profile/inquiryintoinquiry.bsky.social/post/3lhyet3gfzk2c

Transfer —

Returning to the scene of Dewey's “Sign of Rain” example, let's continue examining how the transfer of knowledge through the analogy of experience works in that case.

By way of a recap, we began by considering a fragment K_pres of the reasoner's knowledge base which is logically equivalent to a conjunction of two rules.

• K_pres ⇔ (B ⇒ A) ∧ (B ⇒ D).

K_pres may be thought of as a piece of knowledge or item of information allowing for the possibility of certain conditions, expressed in the form of a logical constraint on the present universe of discourse.

Next we found it convenient to express all logical statements in terms of their models, that is, in terms of the primitive circumstances or elements of experience over which they hold true.

• Let E_past be the chosen set of experiences, or the circumstances in mind under “past experience”.

• Let E_poss be the collective set of experiences, or the prospective total of possible circumstances.

• Let E_pres be the current experience, or the circumstances immediately present to the reasoner.

If we think of the knowledge base K_pres as referring to the “regime of experience” over which it is valid, then the sets of models involved in the analogy may be ordered according to the relationships of set inclusion or logical implication existing among them.

Figure 4 shows the subsumption relations involved in the analogy of experience.

Figure 4. Analogy of Experience
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.files.wordpress.com/2025/02/analogy-of-experience.png

#Peirce #Logic #Semiotics #Semiosis #SignRelations
#JohnDewey #Interpreter #Interpretant #Pragmatism
#Abduction #Deduction #Induction #Analogy #Inquiry

Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 9.2
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/01/27/interpreter-and-interpretant-selection-9-a/

Transfer —

In logical terms, the analogy of experience proceeds by inducing a Rule about the validity of a current knowledge base and then by deducing a Fact, the applicability of that knowledge base to a current experience.

Step 1 is Inductive, abstracting a Rule from a Case and a Fact.

• Case : E_past ⇒ E_poss, Chosen events fairly sample Collective events.
• Fact : E_past ⇒ K_pres, Chosen events support the Knowledge regime.
────────────────────────────────────────────────
• Rule : E_poss ⇒ K_pres, Collective events support the Knowledge regime.

Step 2 is Deductive, admitting a Case to a Rule and arriving at a Fact.

• Case : E_pres ⇒ E_poss, Current events fairly sample Collective events.
• Rule : E_poss ⇒ K_pres, Collective events support the Knowledge regime.
────────────────────────────────────────────────
• Fact : E_pres ⇒ K_pres, Current events support the Knowledge regime.

References —

Awbrey, J.L., and Awbrey, S.M. (1995), “Interpretation as Action : The Risk of Inquiry”, Inquiry : Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 15(1), 40–52.
• https://www.pdcnet.org/inquiryct/content/inquiryct_1995_0015_0001_0040_0052
• https://www.academia.edu/57812482/Interpretation_as_Action_The_Risk_of_Inquiry

Dewey, J. (1910), How We Think, D.C. Heath, Boston, MA. Reprinted (1991), Prometheus Books, Buffalo, NY.
• https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37423/37423-h/37423-h.htm

Resources —

Survey of Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/27/survey-of-abduction-deduction-induction-analogy-inquiry-4/

Survey of Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/26/survey-of-semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-5/

#Peirce #Logic #Semiotics #Semiosis #SignRelations
#JohnDewey #Interpreter #Interpretant #Pragmatism
#Abduction #Deduction #Induction #Analogy #Inquiry

Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 9.1
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/01/27/interpreter-and-interpretant-selection-9-a/

Transfer —

Let's examine how the transfer of knowledge through the analogy of experience works in the case of Dewey's “Sign of Rain” example.

For concreteness, consider a fragment K_pres of the reasoner's knowledge base which is logically equivalent to a conjunction of two rules.

• K_pres ⇔ (B ⇒ A) ∧ (B ⇒ D).

K_pres may be thought of as a piece of knowledge or item of information allowing for the possibility of certain conditions, expressed in the form of a logical constraint on the present universe of discourse.

It is convenient to have the option of expressing all logical statements in terms of their models, that is, in terms of the primitive circumstances or elements of experience over which they hold true.

• Let E_past be the chosen set of experiences, or the circumstances in mind under “past experience”.

• Let E_poss be the collective set of experiences, or the prospective total of possible circumstances.

• Let E_pres be the current experience, or the circumstances immediately present to the reasoner.

If we think of the knowledge base K_pres as referring to the “regime of experience” over which it is valid, then the sets of models involved in the analogy may be ordered according to the relationships of set inclusion or logical implication existing among them.

#Peirce #Logic #Semiotics #Semiosis #SignRelations
#JohnDewey #Interpreter #Interpretant #Pragmatism
#Abduction #Deduction #Induction #Analogy #Inquiry

Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 8
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/01/24/interpreter-and-interpretant-selection-8-a/

Transfer —

What exactly gives the acquisition of a knowledge base its distinctively inductive character? It is evidently the “analogy of experience” involved in applying what we've learned in the past to what confronts us in the present.

Whenever we find ourselves approaching a problem with the thought, “If past experience is any guide …” we can be sure the analogy of experience has come into play. We are seeking to find analogies between past experience as a totality and present experience as a point of application.

From a statistical point of view what we mean is this — “If past experience is a fair sample of possible experience then knowledge gained from past experience may usefully apply to present experience”. It is that mechanism which allows a knowledge base to be carried across gulfs of experience which remain indifferent to the effective contents of its rules.

Next we'll examine how the transfer of knowledge through the analogy of experience works out in the case of Dewey's “Sign of Rain” example.

References —

Awbrey, J.L., and Awbrey, S.M. (1995), “Interpretation as Action : The Risk of Inquiry”, Inquiry : Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 15(1), 40–52.
• https://www.pdcnet.org/inquiryct/content/inquiryct_1995_0015_0001_0040_0052
• https://www.academia.edu/57812482/Interpretation_as_Action_The_Risk_of_Inquiry

Dewey, J. (1910), How We Think, D.C. Heath, Boston, MA. Reprinted (1991), Prometheus Books, Buffalo, NY.
• https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37423/37423-h/37423-h.htm

#Peirce #Logic #Semiotics #Semiosis #SignRelations
#JohnDewey #Interpreter #Interpretant #Pragmatism
#Abduction #Deduction #Induction #Analogy #Inquiry

Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 7
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/01/15/interpreter-and-interpretant-selection-7-a/

Learning —

Rules in a knowledge base, as far as their effective content goes, can be obtained by any mode of inference. For example, consider a proposition of the following form.

• B ⇒ A, Just Before it rains, the Air is cool.

Such a proposition is usually induced from a consideration of many past events. The inductive inference may be observed to fit the following pattern.

• Case : C ⇒ B, In Certain events, it is just Before it rains.
• Fact : C ⇒ A, In Certain events, the Air is cool.
────────────────────────────────────
• Rule : B ⇒ A, Just Before it rains, the Air is cool.

However, the same proposition could also be abduced as an explanation of a singular occurrence or deduced as a conclusion of a prior theory.

References —

Awbrey, J.L., and Awbrey, S.M. (1995), “Interpretation as Action : The Risk of Inquiry”, Inquiry : Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 15(1), 40–52.
• https://www.pdcnet.org/inquiryct/content/inquiryct_1995_0015_0001_0040_0052
• https://www.academia.edu/57812482/Interpretation_as_Action_The_Risk_of_Inquiry

Dewey, J. (1910), How We Think, D.C. Heath, Boston, MA. Reprinted (1991), Prometheus Books, Buffalo, NY.
• https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37423/37423-h/37423-h.htm

Resources —

Survey of Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/27/survey-of-abduction-deduction-induction-analogy-inquiry-4/

Survey of Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/26/survey-of-semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-5/

#Peirce #Logic #Semiotics #SignRelations #TriadicRelations
#Interpretation #Interpreter #Interpretant #Hermeneutics
#JohnDewey #Inquiry #Abduction #Deduction #Induction
#Abstraction #HypostaticAbstraction #Reflection

Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 6
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/01/13/interpreter-and-interpretant-selection-6-a/

Inquiry and Induction —

To understand the bearing of inductive reasoning on the closing phases of inquiry there are a couple of observations we should make.

• Smaller inquiries are typically woven into larger inquiries, whether the whole pattern of inquiry is carried on by a single agent or by a complex community.

• There are several ways particular instances of inquiry are related to ongoing inquiries at larger scales. Three modes of interaction between component inquiries and compound inquiries may be described under the headings of Learning, Transfer, and Testing of Rules.

#Peirce #Logic #Semiotics #SignRelations #TriadicRelations
#Interpretation #Interpreter #Interpretant #Hermeneutics
#JohnDewey #Inquiry #Abduction #Deduction #Induction
#Abstraction #HypostaticAbstraction #Reflection

Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 5
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/01/11/interpreter-and-interpretant-selection-5-a/

Inquiry and Inference —

If we follow Dewey's “Sign of Rain” story far enough to consider the import of thought for action, we realize the subsequent conduct of the interpreter, progressing up through the natural conclusion of the episode — the quickening steps, the seeking of shelter in time to escape the rain — all those acts amount to a series of further interpretants for the initially recognized signs of rain and the first impressions of the actual case. Just as critical reflection develops the positive and negative signs which gather about an idea, pragmatic interpretation explores the consequential and contrasting actions which give effective and testable meaning to a person's belief in it.

#Peirce #Logic #Semiotics #SignRelations #TriadicRelations
#Interpretation #Interpreter #Interpretant #Hermeneutics
#JohnDewey #Inquiry #Abduction #Deduction #Induction
#Abstraction #HypostaticAbstraction #Reflection

References —

Dewey, J. (1910), How We Think, D.C. Heath, Boston, MA. Reprinted (1991), Prometheus Books, Buffalo, NY.
• https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37423/37423-h/37423-h.htm

Awbrey, J.L., and Awbrey, S.M. (1995), “Interpretation as Action : The Risk of Inquiry”, Inquiry : Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 15(1), 40–52.
• https://web.archive.org/web/20001210162300/http://chss.montclair.edu/inquiry/fall95/awbrey.html
• https://www.pdcnet.org/inquiryct/content/inquiryct_1995_0015_0001_0040_0052
• https://www.academia.edu/1266493/Interpretation_as_Action_The_Risk_of_Inquiry
• https://www.academia.edu/57812482/Interpretation_as_Action_The_Risk_of_Inquiry

Resources —

Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/28/survey-of-inquiry-driven-systems-6/

Survey of Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/26/survey-of-semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-5/

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Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 4
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/01/09/interpreter-and-interpretant-selection-4-a/

Interpretation and Inquiry —

To illustrate the role of sign relations in inquiry we begin with Dewey's elegant and simple example of reflective thinking in everyday life.

❝A man is walking on a warm day. The sky was clear the last time he observed it; but presently he notes, while occupied primarily with other things, that the air is cooler. It occurs to him that it is probably going to rain; looking up, he sees a dark cloud between him and the sun, and he then quickens his steps. What, if anything, in such a situation can be called thought? Neither the act of walking nor the noting of the cold is a thought. Walking is one direction of activity; looking and noting are other modes of activity. The likelihood that it will rain is, however, something suggested. The pedestrian feels the cold; he thinks of clouds and a coming shower.❞ (John Dewey, How We Think, 6–7).

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Reference —

Peirce, C.S. (1866), “The Logic of Science, or, Induction and Hypothesis”, Lowell Lectures of 1866, pp. 357–504 in Writings of Charles S. Peirce : A Chronological Edition, Volume 1, 1857–1866, Peirce Edition Project, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1982.

Resources —

Hypostatic Abstraction
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2008/08/08/hypostatic-abstraction/

Survey of Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/26/survey-of-semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-5/

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#Abstraction #HypostaticAbstraction #SopToCerberus #Interpretation

❝I think we need to reflect upon the circumstance that every word implies some proposition or, what is the same thing, every word, concept, symbol has an equivalent term — or one which has become identified with it, — in short, has an “interpretant”.

❝Consider, what a word or symbol is; it is a sort of representation. Now a representation is something which stands for something. I will not undertake to analyze, this evening, this conception of standing for something — but, it is sufficiently plain that it involves the standing to something for something. A thing cannot stand for something without standing to something for that something. Now, what is this that a word stands to? Is it a person?

❝We usually say that the word “homme” stands to a Frenchman for “man”. It would be a little more precise to say that it stands to the Frenchman's mind — to his memory. It is still more accurate to say that it addresses a particular remembrance or image in that memory. And what “image”, what remembrance? Plainly, the one which is the mental equivalent of the word “homme” — in short, its interpretant. Whatever a word addresses then or stands to, is its interpretant or identified symbol. […]

❝The interpretant of a term, then, and that which it stands to are identical. Hence, since it is of the very essence of a symbol that it should stand to something, every symbol — every word and every “conception” — must have an interpretant — or what is the same thing, must have information or implication.❞ (Peirce 1866, Chronological Edition 1, pp. 466–467).

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Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 3
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/01/08/interpreter-and-interpretant-selection-3-a/

The following selection from Peirce's “Lowell Lectures on the Logic of Science” (1866) lays out in detail his “metaphorical argument” for the relationship between interpreters and interpretant signs.

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Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 2
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/01/07/interpreter-and-interpretant-selection-2-a/

A idea of what Peirce means by an Interpretant and the part it plays in a triadic sign relation is given by the following passage.

❝It is clearly indispensable to start with an accurate and broad analysis of the nature of a Sign. I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person, which effect I call its Interpretant, that the latter is thereby mediately determined by the former. My insertion of “upon a person” is a sop to Cerberus, because I despair of making my own broader conception understood.❞ (Peirce 1908, Selected Writings, p. 404).

According to his custom of clarifying ideas in terms of their effects, Peirce tells us what a sign is in terms of what it does, the effect it brings to bear on a “person”. That effect he calls the interpretant of the sign. And what of that person? Peirce finesses that question for the moment, resorting to a “Sop to Cerberus”, in other words, a rhetorical gambit used to side‑step a persistent difficulty of exposition. In doing so, Peirce invokes the hypostatic abstraction of a “person” who conducts the movement of signs and embodies the ongoing process of semiosis.

Reference —

Peirce, C.S. (1908), “Letters to Lady Welby”, Chapter 24, pp. 380–432 in Charles S. Peirce : Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance), Edited with Introduction and Notes by Philip P. Wiener, Dover Publications, New York, NY, 1966.

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