#pragmatism — Public Fediverse posts

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

I think the gist of the matter is that a saint can live without politeness, and indeed that politeness is incompatible with a saintly character. But the man who is always to be sincere must be free from spite and envy and malice and pettiness. Most of us have a dose of these vices in our composition and therefore have to excerise tact to avoid giving offence. We cannot all be saints, and if saintliness is impossible, we may at least try not to be too disagreeable.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Essay (1933-02-01) “On Tact,” New York American

More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/601…

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A quotation from Thoreau

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or perchance a palace or temple on the earth, and at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed of them.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Journal (1852-07-14)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…

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Interpreter and Interpretant • Discussion 1
• http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/01/interpreter-and-interpretant-discussion-1/

Re: Conceptual Graphs
• https://lists.cs.uni-kassel.de/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/TC5YDO4NC42TFUNQ2QAIE4RFLJNQVVH2/

Helmut Raulien:
❝I find it a bit problematic to say, that the sign determines the interpretant, because the sign doesn't infer, it is the interpreter, who does the inference. But ok, I guess we might say, that Peirce prescinds the semiosis from the interpreter, so, ok, the flow of determination goes from the sign to the interpretant, because it is the interpreter, who receives the sign, and then forms the interpretant […]❞

Helmut,

Thanks for this. Something about the way you expressed the question led me to think of a new angle on it.

What makes an interpretant is fairly simple, at least, here's the catch, once you have the appropriate mathematical framework in place — An interpretant is whatever appears in the third place of a sign‑relational triple (o, s, i).

What makes an interpreter is more complex. I'll take that up as I get more time.

Resources —

Pragmatic Maxim
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/08/07/pragmatic-maxim-a/

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

#Peirce #Logic #Semiotics #SignRelations #TriadicRelations
#Inference #Information #Inquiry #Interpreter #Interpretant
#Abstraction #HypostaticAbstraction #PrescissiveAbstraction
#Pragma #Pragmata #Pragmatism #PragmaticMaxim #Determination

#Skepticism: Why #criticalthinking makes you smarter
https://bigthink.com/thinking/skepticism-critical-thinking/
https://youtu.be/W9CcdjEqUag
Questioning #personalbeliefs is a key part of #intellectual growth. Various strategies like #coherentism, #falsification, #gradualism, and #pragmatism offer unique ways to #scrutinize #beliefs.

#Skepticism: Why #criticalthinking makes you smarter
https://bigthink.com/thinking/skepticism-critical-thinking/
https://youtu.be/W9CcdjEqUag
Questioning #personalbeliefs is a key part of #intellectual growth. Various strategies like #coherentism, #falsification, #gradualism, and #pragmatism offer unique ways to #scrutinize #beliefs.

#Skepticism: Why #criticalthinking makes you smarter
https://bigthink.com/thinking/skepticism-critical-thinking/
https://youtu.be/W9CcdjEqUag
Questioning #personalbeliefs is a key part of #intellectual growth. Various strategies like #coherentism, #falsification, #gradualism, and #pragmatism offer unique ways to #scrutinize #beliefs.

#Skepticism: Why #criticalthinking makes you smarter
https://bigthink.com/thinking/skepticism-critical-thinking/
https://youtu.be/W9CcdjEqUag
Questioning #personalbeliefs is a key part of #intellectual growth. Various strategies like #coherentism, #falsification, #gradualism, and #pragmatism offer unique ways to #scrutinize #beliefs.

(8/8) Sorry to post such a long thread, but hopefully some interested academic-type people will read it! Here’s a concluding list of tags that give you an idea of the areas I do reading in in order to help formulate my ideas:

#Ecology #ComplexSystems #Emergence #Metaphor #EmbodiedCognition #Aesthetics #Gesture #Symmetry #CategoryTheory #QuantumTheory #Evolution #Relativity #Semiotics #ProcessPhilosophy #Pragmatism #Design #CareEthics #BuddhistStudies #Decoloniality #BlackFeminism

#ThemeOneProgram • #SurveyPage
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2022/06/12/survey-of-theme-one-program-4/

A program I worked on all through the 80s aimed to develop #Algorithms and #DataStructures for integrating #EmpiricalLearning and #LogicalReasoning. I had earlier developed programs for #Learning #TwoLevelFormalLanguages and for #PropositionalLogic #ConstraintSatisfaction based on C.S. #Peirce's #LogicalGraphs. Getting those 2 faculties to work together meant integrating the ways of #Empiricism and #Rationalism.

#ThemeOneProgram #Learning #Reasoning
#Logic #LogicalGraphs #FormalLanguages
#Algorithm #DataStructure #GraphTheory
#Peirce #PragmaticSemioticInformation
#Empiricism #Rationalism #Pragmatism
#ModelTheory #ProofTheory #Semiotics
#ParallelDistributedProcessing #PDP
#Grossberg #McClelland #Rumelhart