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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.helsinki.fi/science/commens/dictionary.html

Pragmatic Maxim
• http://www.helsinki.fi/science/commens/terms/pragmatismmaxim.html
Pragmaticism
• http://www.helsinki.fi/science/commens/terms/pragmaticism.html
Pragmatism
• http://www.helsinki.fi/science/commens/terms/pragmatism.html

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

Inquiry Into Inquiry • Discussion 9
• http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/08/19/inquiry-into-inquiry-discussion-9/

Re: Milo Gardner
• https://www.academia.edu/community/VBqzR5?c=Q4jJVy

MG: ❝Do you agree that Peirce was limited to bivalent logic?❞

Taking classical logic as a basis for reasoning is no more limiting than taking Dedekind cuts as a basis for constructing the real number line. For Peirce's relational approach to logic as semiotics the number of dimensions in a relation is more important than the number of values in each dimension. That is where 3 makes a difference over 2.

#Peirce #Logic #Inquiry #Inference #Information #InformationFusion #Semiotics
#CategoryTheory #Compositionality #RelationTheory #TriadicRelationIrreducibility

Inquiry Into Inquiry • Discussion 8
• http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/08/18/inquiry-into-inquiry-discussion-8/

Re: Milo Gardner
• https://www.academia.edu/community/Lbxjg5?c=yqXVog

MG: ❝Peirce sensed that bivalent syntax was superceded by trivalent syntax,
but never resolved that nagging question.❞

My Comment —

The main thing is not a question of syntax but a question of the mathematical models we use to cope with object realities and real objectives (pragmata). Signs, syntax, and systems of representation can make a big difference in how well they represent the object domain and how well they serve the purpose at hand but they remain accessory to those objects and purposes.

#Peirce #Logic #Inquiry #Inference #Information #InformationFusion #Semiotics
#CategoryTheory #Compositionality #RelationTheory #TriadicRelationIrreducibility

Inquiry Into Inquiry • Discussion 7
• http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/08/17/inquiry-into-inquiry-discussion-7/

Dan Everett has prompted a number of discussions on Facebook recently which touch on core issues in Peirce's thought — but threads ravel on and fray so quickly in that medium one rarely get a chance to fill out the warp. Not exactly at random, here's a loose thread I think may be worth the candle.

Re: Facebook • Daniel Everett
• https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0be89MXhhCm8rxahRn4PXif6HHSCmkdiUFfMZ3qS1mNqSzRzUWfqej5a8cyz8TcyJl&id=100093271525294

My Comment —

Compositionality started out as a well-defined concept, arising from the composition of mathematical functions, abstracted to the composition of arrows and functors in category theory, and generalized to the composition of binary, two-place, or dyadic relations. In terms of linguistic complexity it's associated with properly context-free languages. That all keeps compositionality on the dyadic side of the border in Peirce's universe. More lately the term has been volatilized to encompass almost any sort of information fusion, which is all well and good so long as folks make it clear what they are talking about, for which use the term “information fusion” would probably be sufficiently vague.

#Peirce #Logic #Inquiry #Inference #Information #InformationFusion #Semiotics
#CategoryTheory #Compositionality #RelationTheory #TriadicRelationIrreducibility

Inquiry Into Inquiry • Discussion 7
• http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/08/17/inquiry-into-inquiry-discussion-7/

Dan Everett has prompted a number of discussions on Facebook recently which touch on core issues in Peirce's thought — but threads ravel on and fray so quickly in that medium one rarely get a chance to fill out the warp. Not exactly at random, here's a loose thread I think may be worth the candle.

Re: Facebook • Daniel Everett
• https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0be89MXhhCm8rxahRn4PXif6HHSCmkdiUFfMZ3qS1mNqSzRzUWfqej5a8cyz8TcyJl&id=100093271525294

My Comment —

Compositionality started out as a well-defined concept, arising from the composition of mathematical functions, abstracted to the composition of arrows and functors in category theory, and generalized to the composition of binary, two-place, or dyadic relations. In terms of linguistic complexity it's associated with properly context-free languages. That all keeps compositionality on the dyadic side of the border in Peirce's universe. More lately the term has been volatilized to encompass almost any sort of information fusion, which is all well and good so long as folks make it clear what they are talking about, for which use the term “information fusion” would probably be sufficiently vague.

#Peirce #Logic #Inquiry #Inference #Information #InformationFusion #Semiotics
#CategoryTheory #Compositionality #RelationTheory #TriadicRelationIrreducibility

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

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Pragmatic Maxim • Introduction
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/08/07/pragmatic-maxim-2/

The “pragmatic maxim”, also known as the “maxim of pragmatism” or the “maxim of pragmaticism”, is a maxim of logic formulated by Charles Sanders Peirce. Serving as a practical recommendation or regulative principle in the normative science of logic, its function is to guide the conduct of thought toward the achievement of its purpose, advising the addressee on an optimal way of “attaining clearness of apprehension”.

Charles Sanders Peirce
• https://mywikibiz.com/Charles_Sanders_Peirce

Normative Science
• https://mywikibiz.com/Normative_science

#Peirce #Logic #Inquiry #PragmaticMaxim #RequlativePrinciple
#CSPeirce #CharlesSandersPeirce #NormativeScience #Semiotics

Pragmatic Maxim • Et Sic Deinceps
• http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/08/07/pragmatic-maxim-2/

The pragmatic maxim is a guideline for the practice of inquiry formulated by Charles Sanders Peirce. Serving as a practical recommendation or regulative principle in the normative science of logic, its function is to guide the conduct of thought toward the achievement of its purpose, advising the addressee on an optimal way of “attaining clearness of apprehension”.

#Peirce #Logic #Inquiry #PragmaticMaxim #RequlativePrinciple
#CSPeirce #CharlesSandersPeirce #NormativeScience #Semiotics

Survey of Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 3
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/04/02/survey-of-abduction-deduction-induction-analogy-inquiry-3/

This is a Survey of blog and wiki posts on three elementary forms of inference, as recognized by a logical tradition extending from Aristotle through Charles S. Peirce. Particular attention is paid to the way these inferential rudiments combine to form the more complex patterns of analogy and inquiry.

Blog Dialogs —

• Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry
1. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/08/16/abduction-deduction-induction-analogy-inquiry-1/
2. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/11/21/abduction-deduction-induction-analogy-inquiry-2/
3. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2016/02/17/abduction-deduction-induction-analogy-inquiry-3/
•••
29. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/03/15/abduction-deduction-induction-analogy-inquiry-29/
30. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/12/15/abduction-deduction-induction-analogy-inquiry-30/
31. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2022/10/14/abduction-deduction-induction-analogy-inquiry-31/

Blog Series —

Functional Logic • Inquiry and Analogy
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/06/20/functional-logic-inquiry-and-analogy-preliminaries-2/
1. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/06/21/functional-logic-inquiry-and-analogy-1-2/
2. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/06/22/functional-logic-inquiry-and-analogy-2-2/
3. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/06/23/functional-logic-inquiry-and-analogy-3-2/
•••
19. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/07/17/functional-logic-inquiry-and-analogy-19-2/
20. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/07/18/functional-logic-inquiry-and-analogy-20-2/
21. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/07/19/functional-logic-inquiry-and-analogy-21-2/
Discussion
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/07/06/functional-logic-inquiry-and-analogy-discussion-1/

OEIS Wiki —

Functional Logic • Inquiry and Analogy
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Functional_Logic_%E2%80%A2_Inquiry_and_Analogy

Prospects for Inquiry Driven Systems
• https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey/Prospects_for_Inquiry_Driven_Systems

Introduction to Inquiry Driven Systems
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Inquiry_Driven_Systems

Information = Comprehension × Extension
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Information_%3D_Comprehension_%C3%97_Extension

Inquiry Driven Systems • Inquiry Into Inquiry
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Inquiry_Driven_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Overview

#Peirce #Logic #Abduction #Deduction #Induction #Analogy #Inquiry
#FunctionalLogic #DifferentialLogic #DynamicsOfInquiry #Semiotics
#InquiryDrivenSystem #InformationEqualsComprehensionTimesExtension

Survey of Definition and Determination • 2
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/04/06/survey-of-definition-and-determination-2/

In the early 1990s, “in the middle of life's journey” as the saying goes, I returned to grad school in a systems engineering program with the idea of taking a more systems-theoretic approach to my development of Peircean themes, from signs and scientific inquiry to logic and information theory.

Two of the first questions calling for fresh examination were the closely related concepts of definition and determination, not only as Peirce used them in his logic and semiotics but as researchers in areas as diverse as computer science, cybernetics, physics, and systems sciences were finding themselves forced to reconsider the concepts in later years. That led me to collect a sample of texts where Peirce and a few other writers discuss the issues of definition and determination. There are copies of those selections at the following sites.

Collection Of Source Materials
• https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey/EXCERPTS

Excerpts on Definition
• https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey/EXCERPTS#Definition

Excerpts on Determination
• https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey/EXCERPTS#Determination

What follows is a Survey of blog and wiki posts on Definition and Determination, with a focus on the part they play in Peirce's interlinked theories of signs, information, and inquiry. In classical logical traditions the concepts of definition and determination are closely related and their bond acquires all the more force when we view the overarching concept of constraint from an information-theoretic point of view, as Peirce did beginning in the 1860s.

#Peirce #Logic #Definition #Determination #DifferentialLogic
#Inference #Information #Inquiry #Semiotics #SignRelations
#AI #Cybernetics #IntelligentSystems #InquiryDrivenSystems

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