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• Logic of relatives
  ...s affords a distinctive perspective on the subject, even though all angles of approach must ultimately converge on the same formal subject matter. ...es, Resulting from an Amplification of the Conceptions of Boole's Calculus of Logic]]”.
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• Hypostatic abstraction
  ...cation'', ''reification'', and ''subjectal abstraction''.  The object of discussion or thought thus introduced is termed a ''[[hypostatic object]]'' ...into an extra subject, upping the ''arity'', also called the ''adicity'', of the main predicate in the process.
  7 KB (915 words) - 18:58, 10 November 2015
• Pragmatic maxim
  ...se, advising the addressee on an optimal way of “attaining clearness of apprehension”. ==Seven ways of looking at a pragmatic maxim==
  12 KB (1,764 words) - 04:32, 17 November 2015
• Continuous predicate
  ...cs)|relational predicate]] that arises as the limit of an iterated process of [[hypostatic abstraction]]. Here is one of Peirce's definitive discussions of the concept:
  8 KB (1,058 words) - 04:08, 10 November 2015
• Peirce's law
  ==History== Here is Peirce's own statement and proof of the law:
  11 KB (1,526 words) - 04:14, 18 November 2015
• Semeiotic
  ...adic]] [[sign relations]], along with ''semiotic'' and the plural variants of both terms. The form ''semeiotic'' is often used to distinguish Peirce's t ==Types of signs==
  9 KB (1,162 words) - 20:54, 3 November 2015
• William of Sherwood
  '''William of Sherwood''' (or Shyreswood, Shireswood) (c1190 – c. 1266), was a [[me ...of [[Lincoln, Lincolnshire|Lincoln]] from 1254/8 onwards, and a [[rector]] of [[Aylesbury]].
  8 KB (1,125 words) - 12:26, 15 May 2010
• Truth table
  ...s <math>\{ \operatorname{false}, \operatorname{true} \}.</math> The names of the logical values, or ''truth values'', are commonly abbreviated in accord ...all representation of truth functions as boolean functions. The remainder of this article assumes the usual representation, taking the equations <math>\
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• Charles Sanders Peirce (Bibliography)
  ...g letters, manuscripts, publications, and Nachlass, along with a selection of secondary literature. * CE n, m = ''Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition'', vol. n, page m.
  18 KB (2,307 words) - 21:04, 27 May 2015
• Logical implication
  The concept of '''logical implication''' encompasses a specific logical [[function (mathem ...concept of logical implication are expressed in ordinary language by means of linguistic forms like the following:
  16 KB (2,147 words) - 20:18, 4 November 2015
• Directory:Jon Awbrey/Papers/Inquiry Driven Systems
  &bull; [[Inquiry Driven Systems : Document History|Document History]] | align="right" | &mdash; Marcel Proust, ''In Search of Lost Time'', [Pro, 1.48]
  15 KB (1,597 words) - 12:00, 15 April 2017
• Richard the Sophister
  ...'s identity is uncertain, but he is known to be the author of a collection of logically puzzling sentences, sometimes called “sophisms” or [[sophisma ...of this collection. The colophon appended to the two complete manuscripts of the ''Abstractiones'', suggests that his name was “Richard”.
  10 KB (1,518 words) - 15:25, 13 May 2010
• Propositional calculus
  ...ter that is, up to somorphism, constituted by the structural relationships of mathematical objects called ''propositions''. ...s a set of transformation rules that define a binary relation on the space of expressions.
  17 KB (2,301 words) - 15:56, 7 November 2015
• Cybernetics
  ..., in a ship, if a man were at liberty to do what he chose, but were devoid of mind and excellence in navigation (&#945;&#961;&#949;&#964;&#951;&#962; &#9 ...tics, characterizes cybernetics as &ldquo;the art of ensuring the efficacy of action&rdquo;.
  14 KB (1,827 words) - 18:48, 27 July 2016
• Dynamics of inquiry
  ...f logical criticism of its inferences, must be aware of this determination of its ideas by previous ideas. (Peirce, "On Time and Thought", CE&nbsp;3, 68 ...approach, it is possible to see a question of articulation and a question of explanation:
  24 KB (3,783 words) - 00:25, 16 November 2015
• Directory:Goodbye to a River Plot Summary and More
  ...terial] for all incoming freshman at Texas State University this fall. And of course the administration picked an obscure book to make sure students woul ...es]] canoes down 150-200 miles of the upper-middle Brazos River where most of his childhood memories took place before 5 new dams where scheduled to go i
  14 KB (2,416 words) - 10:12, 2 July 2014
• Minimal negation operator
  ...)~\!</math> is a logical connective that says &ldquo;just one false&rdquo; of its logical arguments.&nbsp; The first four cases are described below. ...in the form <math>\nu(),~\!</math> then it cannot be true that exactly one of the arguments is false, so <math>\nu() = \mathrm{false}.~\!</math>
  23 KB (3,337 words) - 13:54, 3 September 2017
• Pragmatic theory of truth
  ...ed as ''belief'', ''certainty'', ''knowledge'', or ''truth'' is the result of a ''process'', namely, ''[[inquiry]]''. ...ul say a few words about these other theories, and to highlight the points of significant contrast.
  33 KB (4,907 words) - 04:32, 22 September 2014
• Truth theory
  ...ell-bounded universes of discourse or its horizon may extend to the limits of the human imagination. Notions of truth are notoriously difficult to disentangle from many of our most basic concepts &mdash; meaning, reality, and values in general, to
  37 KB (5,460 words) - 14:45, 17 November 2015
• Relation theory
  ...inguished from, though closely related to, its study from the perspectives of abstract algebra on the one hand and formal logic on the other. Two definitions of the relation concept are common in the literature. Although it is usually
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