#pragmatism — Public Fediverse posts

In the current crisis involving the Strait of Hormuz, the United Arab Emirates is advocating for a pragmatic approach toward Iran. Lana Nusseibeh, the Minister... https://news.osna.fm/?p=63156 | #news #advocates #iran #maintaining #pragmatism

In the current crisis involving the Strait of Hormuz, the United Arab Emirates is advocating for a pragmatic approach toward Iran. Lana Nusseibeh, the Minister... https://news.osna.fm/?p=63156 | #news #advocates #iran #maintaining #pragmatism

In the current crisis involving the Strait of Hormuz, the United Arab Emirates is advocating for a pragmatic approach toward Iran. Lana Nusseibeh, the Minister... https://news.osna.fm/?p=63156 | #news #advocates #iran #maintaining #pragmatism

In the current crisis involving the Strait of Hormuz, the United Arab Emirates is advocating for a pragmatic approach toward Iran. Lana Nusseibeh, the Minister... https://news.osna.fm/?p=63156 | #news #advocates #iran #maintaining #pragmatism

In the current crisis involving the Strait of Hormuz, the United Arab Emirates is advocating for a pragmatic approach toward Iran. Lana Nusseibeh, the Minister... https://news.osna.fm/?p=63156 | #news #advocates #iran #maintaining #pragmatism

US immigration officers will be given gloves that deliver powerful electric shocks to anyone resisting them

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers will be supplied with gloves that deliver powerful electric shocks. 

The gloves are designed to cause pain and impair a person’s ability to respond within seconds.

The devices, known as the GLOVE (Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter), are normal patrol gloves until an officer presses a button to activate them. 

They must be in direct contact with someone’s skin to administer a voltage that causes pain, which is intended to incapacitate those who are shocked. 

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I've been reading #Horkheimer as my vacation book (real light reading, huh?), and it really strikes me of that all the problems that #fascism exploited, many of them are related to why #AI sucks.

In Horkheimer's view, the Nazis were able come along because society had already abandoned absolute truths and turned into #pragmatism & #positivism defining #philosophy instead of the other way around.

Today, we're basing our future on #probabilisticcomputing .. 🙈

#bookstodon

To tell the truth, I just posted an essay on the truth. Many philosophers have written about Truth over the years, but truth is just a tool, a trivial bookkeeping device.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/29/truth-after-deflation-why-truth-refuses-to-behave/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #truth #essay #blog #podcast #analyticphilosophy #philosophyoflanguage #epistemology #metaphysics #tools #pragmatism #languageinsufficiency #disintegration #philosophics

Pragmatic Truth • 3.2
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/07/12/pragmatic-truth-3/

Truth Predicates —

One of the first questions to be asked in this setting concerns the relationship between the significant performance and its reflective critique. If one expresses oneself in a particular fashion, and someone says “that’s true”, is there anything useful at all to be said in general terms about the relationship between those two acts? For instance, does the critique add value to the expression criticized, does it say something significant in its own right, or is it but an insubstantial echo of the original sign?

Resources —

Logic Syllabus
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/logic-syllabus/

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

Truth Theory
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Truth_theory

Pragmatic Theory Of Truth • Document History
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Pragmatic_Theory_Of_Truth
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Pragmatic_Theory_Of_Truth#Document_history

Correspondence Theory Of Truth
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Correspondence_Theory_Of_Truth

#Peirce #Logic #Inquiry #Truth #PragmaticTruth #TruthTheory #Semiotics #Meaning
#JohnDewey #WilliamJames #PragmaticMaxim #Pragmatism #InquiryDrivenSystems

Pragmatic Truth • 3.1
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/07/12/pragmatic-truth-3/

Truth Predicates —

An inquiry into the character of truth generally begins with the idea of an informative, meaningful, or significant element, the goodness of whose information, meaning, or significance may be put in question and needs to be evaluated. Depending on context, the element may be called an artefact, expression, image, impression, lyric, mark, performance, picture, sentence, sign, string, symbol, text, thought, token, utterance, word, work, and so on. However that may be, one has the task of judging whether the bearers of information, meaning, or significance are indeed truth‑bearers or not. That judgment is typically expressed in the form of a specific “truth predicate”, whose positive application to a sign, or so on, asserts the truth of the sign.

Considered within the broadest horizon, there is little reason to imagine the process of judging a work, which leads to a predication of false or true, is necessarily amenable to formalization, and that task may always remain what is commonly called a judgment call. But there are many well-circumscribed domains where it is useful to consider disciplined forms of evaluation and the observation of those limits allows for the institution of what is called a “method” of judging truth and falsity.

Resources —

Logic Syllabus
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/logic-syllabus/

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

Truth Theory
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Truth_theory

Pragmatic Theory Of Truth
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Pragmatic_Theory_Of_Truth

Correspondence Theory Of Truth
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Correspondence_Theory_Of_Truth

#Peirce #Logic #Inquiry #Truth #PragmaticTruth #TruthTheory
#InquiryDrivenSystems #PragmaticMaxim #Pragmatism #Semiotics

Pragmatic Truth • 2
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/07/10/pragmatic-truth-2/

Truth as the Good of Logic —

Pragmatic theories of truth enter on a stage set by the philosophies of former ages, with special reference to the Ancient Greeks, the Scholastics, and Immanuel Kant. Recalling a few elements of that background can provide valuable insight into the play of ideas as they have developed up through our time. Because pragmatic ideas about truth are often confused with a number of quite distinct notions it is useful say a few words about those other theories and to highlight the points of significant contrast.

In one classical formulation, truth is defined as the good of logic, where logic is classed as a normative science, in other words, an inquiry into a good or value which seeks to arrive at knowledge of it and the means to achieve it. In that view, truth cannot be discussed to much effect outside the context of inquiry, knowledge, and logic, all very broadly conceived.

Resources —

Logic Syllabus
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/logic-syllabus/

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

Truth Theory
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Truth_theory

Pragmatic Theory Of Truth • Document History
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Pragmatic_Theory_Of_Truth
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Pragmatic_Theory_Of_Truth#Document_history

Correspondence Theory Of Truth
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Correspondence_Theory_Of_Truth

#Peirce #Logic #Inquiry #Truth #PragmaticTruth #TruthTheory #Semiotics #Meaning
#JohnDewey #WilliamJames #PragmaticMaxim #Pragmatism #InquiryDrivenSystems

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

Pragmatic Maxim • References, Readings, Resources
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/08/07/pragmatic-maxim-2/

References —

Peirce, C.S., Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, vols. 1–6, Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss (eds.), vols. 7–8, Arthur W. Burks (ed.), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1931–1935, 1958. Cited as CP n.m for volume n, paragraph m.

Readings —

Awbrey, Jon, and Awbrey, Susan (1995), “Interpretation as Action • The Risk of Inquiry”, Inquiry : Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 15(1), 40–52.

Archive
• https://web.archive.org/web/20001210162300/http://chss.montclair.edu/inquiry/fall95/awbrey.html
Journal
• https://www.pdcnet.org/inquiryct/content/inquiryct_1995_0015_0001_0040_0052
Online
• https://www.academia.edu/57812482/Interpretation_as_Action_The_Risk_of_Inquiry

Resources —

Bergman and Paavola (eds.) • Commens Dictionary of Peirce's Terms
• http://www.commens.org/dictionary

Pragmatic Maxim
• http://www.commens.org/dictionary/term/maxim-of-pragmatism
Pragmaticism
• http://www.commens.org/dictionary/term/pragmaticism
Pragmatism
• http://www.commens.org/dictionary/term/pragmatism

#Peirce #Logic #Inquiry #PragmaticMaxim #StandardOperatingProcedure #Semiotics
#Pragmatism #EffectiveDefinition #ExtensionalDefinition #OperationalDefinition
#Representation #RepresentationPrinciple #ClosurePrinciple #MethodOfReflection

Seven Ways of Looking at a Pragmatic Maxim • 6
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/08/07/pragmatic-maxim-2/

A sixth excerpt is useful in stating the bearing of the pragmatic maxim on the topic of reflection, namely, that it makes all of pragmatism boil down to nothing more or less than a method of reflection.

❝The study of philosophy consists, therefore, in reflexion, and pragmatism is that method of reflexion which is guided by constantly holding in view its purpose and the purpose of the ideas it analyzes, whether these ends be of the nature and uses of action or of thought. … It will be seen that pragmatism is not a Weltanschauung but is a method of reflexion having for its purpose to render ideas clear.❞

(Peirce, CP 5.13 note 1, 1902).

#Peirce #Logic #Inquiry #PragmaticMaxim #StandardOperatingProcedure #Semiotics
#Pragmatism #EffectiveDefinition #ExtensionalDefinition #OperationalDefinition
#Representation #RepresentationPrinciple #ClosurePrinciple #MethodOfReflection

Seven Ways of Looking at a Pragmatic Maxim • 5
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/08/07/pragmatic-maxim-2/

The fifth excerpt is useful by way of additional clarification, and was aimed to correct a variety of historical misunderstandings that arose over time with regard to the intended meaning of the pragmatic maxim.

❝The doctrine appears to assume that the end of man is action — a stoical axiom which, to the present writer at the age of sixty, does not recommend itself so forcibly as it did at thirty. If it be admitted, on the contrary, that action wants an end, and that that end must be something of a general description, then the spirit of the maxim itself, which is that we must look to the upshot of our concepts in order rightly to apprehend them, would direct us towards something different from practical facts, namely, to general ideas, as the true interpreters of our thought.❞

(Peirce, CP 5.3, 1902).

#Peirce #Logic #Inquiry #PragmaticMaxim #StandardOperatingProcedure #Semiotics
#Pragmatism #EffectiveDefinition #ExtensionalDefinition #OperationalDefinition
#Representation #RepresentationPrinciple #ClosurePrinciple #UpshotOfConcepts

Seven Ways of Looking at a Pragmatic Maxim • 4
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/08/07/pragmatic-maxim-2/

The fourth excerpt illustrates one of Peirce's many attempts to get the sense of the pragmatic philosophy across by rephrasing the pragmatic maxim in an alternative way. In introducing this version, he addresses an order of prospective critics who do not deem a simple heuristic maxim, much less one that concerns itself with a routine matter of logical procedure, as forming a sufficient basis for a full-grown philosophy.

❝On their side, one of the faults that I think they might find with me is that I make pragmatism to be a mere maxim of logic instead of a sublime principle of speculative philosophy. In order to be admitted to better philosophical standing I have endeavored to put pragmatism as I understand it into the same form of a philosophical theorem. I have not succeeded any better than this:

❝Pragmatism is the principle that every theoretical judgment expressible in a sentence in the indicative mood is a confused form of thought whose only meaning, if it has any, lies in its tendency to enforce a corresponding practical maxim expressible as a conditional sentence having its apodosis in the imperative mood.❞

(Peirce, CP 5.18, 1903).

#Peirce #Logic #Inquiry #PragmaticMaxim #StandardOperatingProcedure #Semiotics
#Pragmatism #EffectiveDefinition #ExtensionalDefinition #OperationalDefinition
#Representation #RepresentationPrinciple #ClosurePrinciple #PragmaticImperative

Seven Ways of Looking at a Pragmatic Maxim • 3
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/08/07/pragmatic-maxim-2/

The third excerpt puts a gloss on the meaning of a practical bearing and provides an alternative statement of the maxim.

❝Such reasonings and all reasonings turn upon the idea that if one exerts certain kinds of volition, one will undergo in return certain compulsory perceptions. Now this sort of consideration, namely, that certain lines of conduct will entail certain kinds of inevitable experiences is what is called a “practical consideration”. Hence is justified the maxim, belief in which constitutes pragmatism; namely:

❝In order to ascertain the meaning of an intellectual conception one should consider what practical consequences might conceivably result by necessity from the truth of that conception; and the sum of these consequences will constitute the entire meaning of the conception.❞

(Peirce, CP 5.9, 1905).

#Peirce #Logic #Inquiry #PragmaticMaxim #StandardOperatingProcedure #Semiotics
#Pragmatism #EffectiveDefinition #ExtensionalDefinition #OperationalDefinition
#Representation #RepresentationPrinciple #ClosurePrinciple #SumOfConsequences

Seven Ways of Looking at a Pragmatic Maxim • 2
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/08/07/pragmatic-maxim-2/

The second excerpt presents another version of the pragmatic maxim, a recommendation about a way of clarifying meaning that can be taken to stake out the general philosophy of pragmatism.

❝Pragmaticism was originally enounced in the form of a maxim, as follows:

❝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.

❝I will restate this in other words, since ofttimes one can thus eliminate some unsuspected source of perplexity to the reader. This time it shall be in the indicative mood, as follows:

❝The entire intellectual purport of any symbol consists in the total of all general modes of rational conduct which, conditionally upon all the possible different circumstances and desires, would ensue upon the acceptance of the symbol.❞

(Peirce, CP 5.438, 1878/1905).

#Peirce #Logic #Inquiry #PragmaticMaxim #StandardOperatingProcedure #Semiotics
#Pragmatism #EffectiveDefinition #ExtensionalDefinition #OperationalDefinition
#Representation #RepresentationPrinciple #ClosurePrinciple #ConceptionOfEffects

Seven Ways of Looking at a Pragmatic Maxim • 1
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/08/07/pragmatic-maxim-2/

Peirce stated the pragmatic maxim in many different ways over the years, each of which adds its own bit of clarity or correction to their collective corpus.

The first excerpt appears in the form of a dictionary entry, intended as a definition of pragmatism.

❝Pragmatism. The opinion that metaphysics is to be largely cleared up by the application of the following maxim for attaining clearness of apprehension:

❝Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then, our conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object.❞

(Peirce, CP 5.2, 1878/1902).

#Peirce #Logic #Inquiry #PragmaticMaxim #StandardOperatingProcedure #Semiotics
#Pragmatism #EffectiveDefinition #ExtensionalDefinition #OperationalDefinition
#Representation #RepresentationPrinciple #ClosurePrinciple #ConceptionOfEffects

(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