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Differential Propositional Calculus • Discussion 9
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/21/differential-propositional-calculus-discussion-9/

❝Consider what effects that might conceivably have
practical bearings you conceive the objects of your
conception to have. Then, your conception of those
effects is the whole of your conception of the object.❞

— C.S. Peirce • The Maxim of Pragmatism

Re: Facebook Discussion
• https://www.facebook.com/JonnyCache/posts/pfbid022WSZBCe85n6KZ35ZumgABL3SgDgotwgT9RYiLxiYwAizJjQNeLyAUWyCSMzKP12fl

Re: Tim Browning
• https://www.facebook.com/JonnyCache/posts/pfbid0shLb5x7y9j7CuPSorRMXVBjXiaqEKnR7bb37uN9xxFfVnsEVhcjXPcPtXi97hJNyl?comment_id=1321064655185834

Tim Browning wrote:
Makes me wonder if all that is the case, i.e. the universe, is the existence of objects (materialism) or information (idealism).

“Objects of your conception” seems to imply a transcendent perspective that can distinguish between concept and object. Am I overthinking this?
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Hi Tim,

It helps to read “object” in a fuller sense than we often do in billiard‑ball philosophies, as a lot gets lost in the translation from the Greek “pragma” from which pragmatism naturally takes it cue. For a sample of that fuller sense see the following lexicon entry.

πρᾶγμα • Liddell, H.G., and Scott, R. (1925), A Greek-English Lexicon (1940 edition)
• https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dpra%3Dgma

Perseus Digital Library
• https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/

Resources —

Pragmatic Maxim
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2008/08/07/pragmatic-maxim/

Differential Logic and Dynamic Systems
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Differential_Logic_and_Dynamic_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Part_3

Differential Logic • Analytic Expansions
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Differential_Logic_and_Dynamic_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Part_3#Analytic_Expansions

#Peirce #Logic #LogicalGraphs #DifferentialLogic #DiscreteDynamicalSystems
#BooleanFunctions #BooleanDifferenceCalculus #CalculusOfLogicalDifferences
#PropositionalCalculus #DifferentialPropositionalCalculus #LogicalDynamics
#Pragma #Pragmata #PragmaticMaxim #PracticalBearings #ConceptionOfEffects

In the Way of Inquiry • Discussion 1
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/15/in-the-way-of-inquiry-discussion-1/

Re: In the Way of Inquiry • Justification Trap
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/01/10/in-the-way-of-inquiry-justification-trap-a/

Re: Academia.edu • Bhupinder Singh Anand
• https://www.academia.edu/community/5kQ3wL?c=vXZl8g

BSA:
❝Thanks for highlighting what I perceive as some challenging issues in the foundations of what we seek to term as “Knowledge” and “Truth”. … ❞

Hi Bhupinder,

Just by way of venturing a few links between different schools of thought, a very rough hint of the pragmatic approach to truth and knowledge can be found in the following fork of a Wikipedia article I worked on many years ago.

Pragmatic Theory Of Truth
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Pragmatic_Theory_Of_Truth
which begins as follows …

“Pragmatic theory of truth” refers to those accounts, definitions, and theories of the concept “truth” distinguishing the philosophies of pragmatism and pragmaticism. The conception of truth in question varies along lines reflecting the influence of several thinkers, initially and notably, Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey, but a number of common features can be identified. The most characteristic features are (1) a reliance on the “pragmatic maxim” as a means of clarifying the meanings of difficult concepts, “truth” in particular, and (2) an emphasis on the fact that the product variously branded as belief, certainty, knowledge, or truth is the result of a process, namely, “inquiry”.

Document History
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Pragmatic_Theory_Of_Truth#Document_history

#Peirce #Logic #Inquiry #Knowledge #Truth
#PragmaticMaxim #PragmaticTheoryOfTruth
#FixationOfBelief #ProcessOrientation