Submissions are still coming in through our Call for Contributions, and we’re already getting a sense of what September will look like. Confirmed speakers (at this early stage) include: Janne Korhonen Jan de Visch Denis Fisbacher Smith Kim Warren Roelien Goede Patrick Hoverstadt Simon MacCormac John Rogers Gavin Roberts What’s clear so far is that SysPrac26 stays true to its founding idea: […]
Selection 1 ends with Peirce drawing the following conclusion about the links between information, comprehension, inference, and symbolization. Thus information measures the superfluous comprehension. And, hence, whenever we make a symbol to express any thing or any attribute we cannot make it so empty that it shall have no superfluous comprehension. I am going, next, […]
Jesuit Cybernetics Culture Research Unit (JCCRU) CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Patristics, Medieval, and Renaissance ConferenceVillanova University (Online & In-Person) October 9–11, 2026 (panel schedule, date, and time TBA) This panel of the 2026 Patristics, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference seeks to explore and develop a new Jesuit Cybernetic critique of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU) (c. 1995–2000) […]
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 […]
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