Stefan B, Stephen CR, Bev, and Kirsti, I drew a new diagram based on Peirce's classification of the sciences. I'll send it to the list in a separate thread.
Stephan
I believe you are seeing this from a very different viewpoint. I am interested in the sociology and history of knowledge.
So am I. And so was Peirce. I believe that the new diagram will show how all these issues are related.
[The cycle] isn't useful if i want to point out that there are possible differences in the kind of abduction and the kind of induction used and if i want to point out that there is difference between guessing a word one hasn't clearly understood from context and guessing whether saturn has "ears", moons or rings.
I'm not claiming that all possible relationships can be explained with a single diagram. When Peirce was talking about diagrammatical reasoning, he had intended different diagrams to highlight different relations for different purposes. Stephen
Do W's atomic facts fit in?
Yes. When Peirce talked about induction, abduction, and deduction, he didn't place any restriction on the subject matter or how it happened to be represented. Bev
What about bad habits?
A bad habit is learned in the same way as a good habit. The only difference is that the goal of the bad habit is some short-term gratification, which happens to conflict with a more important long-term good. An example would be procrastination. The short-term goal of avoiding some onerous task can cause the long-term loss of something more important. Kirsti,
But Peirce did write on cyclical arithmetics. With detailed instructions on how demonstrate the rules by experimenting with a pack of cards.
Yes. But he used that cycle for a different purpose. That cycle represents patterns in a particular mathematical subject. The cycle in the logic of pragmatism is a cycle among the steps of reasoning. It's not a cycle in the subject matter. John
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