Gary R., thanks for the promotion!
My post "Deductive vs. ampliative; also, repletive vs. attenuative"
hasn't reached a final or at any rate stable form, and it's gotten
longer than I had expected. I've barely touched upon a related issue of
what one deduces _/about/_ inductive premisses _/from/_ the inductive
conclusion (this gets into things like confidence levels, so I'm going
very slowly and carefully; I'm hoping to boil it down to a general
remark about an advantage of clarity or non-ambiguity through framing an
induction as repletive, rather than as attenuative, in the first place).
Regarding Michael Shapiro's blog _Language Lore_, which I read
regularly, gmail seems to have broken one of the links and made both of
them hard to recognize as links. I've repaired them below and I'm
copying and pasting them right here along with a little more of the
text, and with the URLs disembedded and shown (the I.U. peirce-l archive
does not retain clickable links in messages):
Language Lore: About Language Lore
http://languagelore.net/about-language-lore-2/
This blog aims at the explanation of social variation in language,
otherwise the meaning and motivation of language change in its social
aspect. It is directly concerned with the rational explication of
linguistic variety as evidenced by spontaneous innovations in
present-day American English. For the most part, I examine the
ascription of social value to novel linguistic entities, as one of the
areas in which the effects of spontaneous innovations are most notable.
A special feature of the data is the plethora of examples drawn from
media and colloquial language. [....]
LANGUAGELORE.NET
http://languagelore.net/
Best, Ben
On 9/14/2015 3:41 PM, Gary Richmond wrote:
List,
To my knowledge, no one has contributed as much to the introduction
and development of Peircean ideas into linguistics than has Michael
Shapiro. I was reminded of this when Torklld Thellefsen recently
posted a link to the home page of Michael's Facebook blog to his own blog.
In Shapiro's blog, which I follow rather closely, Michael discusses
most 'all things linguistic' and, so, not only Peircean and semiotic
topics. Yet it is always interesting and informative to read his
comments, and I not infrequently find myself responding to them, or
asking a question of him. See:
Language Lore: About Language Lore
<http://languagelore.net/about-language-lore-2/>
This blog aims at the explanation of social variation in language,
otherwise the meaning and motivation of language change in its social
aspect. It is directly concerned with the rational explication of
linguistic variety as evidenced by spontaneous innovations in
present-day American English. For t…
LANGUAGELORE.NET <http://LANGUAGELORE.NET>
As many of you know, the co-manager of this list and Arisbe, and
webmaster /par excellence/ of Arisbe, Ben Udell, also maintains a
blog. Since, as co-managers, Ben and I stay in rather close contact,
not having heard from him for a week or so I recently asked him what
he'd been up to and he answered that he'd been working hard on
updating his most recent post to his blog, /The Tetrast/. Perhaps as
much as Peirce himself was, Ben is adverse to self-promotion, but as I
think this most recent blog entry might be of interest to several
forum members, here's a link to Ben's blog, at the top of which is a
very interesting discussion of deductive vs. ampliative inference,
frequently and even recently discussed here. Of course, since Ben is a
tetrast he also discusses what he terms repletive vs. attenuative
inference.;
http://tetrast.blogspot.com/
Best,
Gary
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