Peircers, I was trying to spare a few gray cells by looking up the discussions we had on this subject the last time it came up but it looks like that occurred during the last half of 2012 when the List was migrating between different servers and a lot of the Gmane archives from that time are missing.
It was my custom until recently (when the Arisbe Dev and Inquiry List servers went down for maintenance or forever, not sure which) to cross-post my Peirce List messages there, so a lot of older material survives in the WayBak archives of those two lists. I subbed the archive links in the post below. At any rate, it appears I first posted that collection of excerpts to the Peirce List back in May and August of 2001. Internal evidence, like the quote from Prigogine, tells me that the assemblage goes back to 1997 or so, in the period when I had gone back to grad school in systems engineering and was cudgeling my brains to think about Peirce's theories of signs, information, and inquiry in systems-theoretic terms. Good times ... Jon On 5/28/2012 10:46 AM, Jon Awbrey wrote:
Note 1 Peircers, It looks like we might be due for one of our recurring reviews on the closely related subjects of definition and determination, with especial reference to what Peirce himself recurrently wrote about them. Here is a set of excerpts that I collected in regard to determination, mostly from Peirce, but with a few thoughts from other thinkers, both before and after him, due to the larger questions of determinacy that I was pursuing at the time. Arisbe List Archive (serial thread) http://web.archive.org/web/20030619214031/http://stderr.org/pipermail/arisbe/2001-May/thread.html#489 http://web.archive.org/web/20030619212516/http://stderr.org/pipermail/arisbe/2001-August/thread.html#942 MyWikiBiz Page (all in one section) • http://www.mywikibiz.com/Directory:Jon_Awbrey/EXCERPTS#Determination One naturally looks to the Baldwin and Century dictionaries for Peirce-connected definitions of definition, but I would like to start with a series of texts that I think are closer to Peirce's own thoughts on definition, where he is not so duty-bound to give a compendious account of every significant thinker's point of view. It may be a while before I get these all copied out: • http://www.mywikibiz.com/Directory:Jon_Awbrey/EXCERPTS#Definition Regards, Jon
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