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Semiosis and pragmatism: toward a dynamic concept of meaning [PDF]

, 2006
Philosophers and social scientists of diverse orientations have suggested that the pragmatics of semiosis is germane to a dynamic account of meaning as process. Semiosis, the central focus of C. S.
Merrell, Floyd, Queiroz, João
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Questions Should Have Answers

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Making sense of the world often requires one to come up with new ideas, including ideas one had previously been unable to think of. How and when should this be done? I propose and defend a norm of rationality linking wondering, belief, and abilities to conceive: one must not both wonder a question and reject all answers to it that one can ...
Michael Deigan
wiley   +1 more source

Downward Determination in Semiotic Multi-level Systems [PDF]

, 2012
Peirce's pragmatic notion of semiosis can be described in terms of a multi-level system of constraints involving chance, efficient, formal and final causation. According to the model proposed here, law-like regularities, which work as boundary conditions
El-Hani, Charbel, Queiroz, Joao
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Las voces de Baha‐blantes: An analysis of the language learning investment of intermediate students of Spanish at the tertiary level

Foreign Language Annals, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the language learning investment of five intermediate learners of Spanish at a tertiary institution in The Bahamas. It draws on participants’ language learning journeys to consider how their previous experiences and access to language learning opportunities contributed to their investment.
Valentino Rahming
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The median is the message: Wilson and Hilferty's reanalysis of C.S. Peirce's experiments on the law of errors [PDF]

Data is reanalyzed from an important series of 19th century experiments conducted by C. S. Peirce and designed to study the plausibility of the Gaussian law of errors for astronomical observations.
Roger Koenker
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The Semiotics of Global Warming: Combating Semiotic Corrruption [PDF]

, 2007
The central focus of this paper is the disjunction between the findings of climate science in revealing the threat of global warming and the failure to act appropriately to these warnings. The development of climate science can be illuminated through the
Gare, Arran
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UNWARRANTED CONFIDENCE: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE POVERTY OF ANTI‐REALISM

History and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Poverty of Anti‐Realism: Critical Perspectives on Postmodernist Philosophy of History, edited by Tor Egil Førland and Branko Mitrović, celebrates the new dawn of historical realism, which it claims supersedes the erroneous and harmful anti‐realism.
Jouni‐Matti Kuukkanen
wiley   +1 more source

In the Face of Fake News: the Urgency of a Realist Semiotics

Informatio
This small paper argues that the notion of truth has been marginalized in much semiotics. As an alternative, Peirce's semiotic theory of propositions and its connection to his special brand of realism are briefly recapitulated.
Frederik Stjernfelt
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Prospects For Peircean Epistemic Infinitism [PDF]

, 2009
Epistemic infinitism is the view that infinite series of inferential relations are productive of epistemic justification. Peirce is explicitly infinitist in his early work, namely his 1868 series of articles.
Aikin, Scott F.
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V.M. Miklyukov: from dimension 8 to nonassociative algebras

, 2019
In this short survey we give a background and explain some recent developments in algebraic minimal cones and nonassociative algebras. A good deal of this paper is recollections of my collaboration with my teacher, PhD supervisor and a colleague ...
Tkachev, Vladimir G.
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