[Inquiry] Re: Examples Of Inquiry -- Discussion

[Jon Awbrey]

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EOI.  Discussion Note 8

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Tom,

Starting from where I left off ...

TG: But if we're going to talk about the sign process in general, rather
    than just this example, it does seem to me that the "sign", as Peirce
    construes it, occupies that transitive ground of a middle term in what
    can be broadly considered "deductions".  And if that's correct, then
    what Peirce has to say about diagrams and necessary or mathematical
    reasoning would give us an internal view of the actual mechanics
    within a sign by which it applies to objects on the one side and
    produces interpretants on the other.

TG: It's just an hypothesis though, so am I being "misled" by it?

In Peirce's early work, at least, the different kinds of signs were
associated with the different kinds of inferences, respectively.

Re: ICE 3ff.  http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2003-March/000198.html
In: ICE.  http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2003-March/thread.html#196

To what extent this survives in his later work would take some
additional study.  Also, I'm not sure that all deductions are
apodictic, as there may be types of probable reasoning that
follow the deductive pattern, only less certainly.

Jon Awbrey

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