Selection 1 opens with Peirce proposing, “The information of a term is the measure of its superfluous comprehension”, and it closes with his offering the following promise. I am going, next, to show that inference is symbolization and that the puzzle of the validity of scientific inference lies merely in this superfluous comprehension and is […]
Peirce now turns to his example of a conjunctive term, which he uses to show the connection between iconic reference and abductive inference. 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 […]
Selection 3 showed how it was possible to combine symbols in such a way as to end up with species of representation outside the class of genuine symbols and introduced the concepts of conjunctive terms and disjunctive terms to describe two ways of doing that. The essence of wit being quickly grasping the middle term, […]
So much to unpack from the Re-braiding Sympoisum#1:”The Split”, held on 25 March 2026, but I’ll jump-in with some explorations on Artorga as a good place to build on? From Symposium #1 – Thank you to fellow attendee Anthony Weiss for making the connection to ARTORGA as being relevant to Re-braiding, and to Bernard Scott’s direct insights on […]
Selection 3 opens with Peirce remarking a critical property of genuine symbols — the class of symbols is not closed under combinations. In particular, there are logical conjunctions of symbols and logical disjunctions of symbols which are not themselves genuine symbols. Applying this paradigm to terms, Peirce introduces two sets of examples under the headings […]
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