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Ask Meno Questions
Re: Richard Hake I would not have imagined it possible to read Plato’s Meno quite so literally as those inquirers did — but now I do not have to imagine it, and so, in a way, I have learned something....
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Ask Meno Questions • Chrysalis
Chrysalis Memories of being held In closely knit spheres And guided beyond the orbits Of childhood fears Entrusted with a word That rustles in a breath And warrants respect for...
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Ask Meno Questions • Discussion 3
Re: Stephen Rose In Aristotle’s De Anima or “On the Soul” there is a fine articulation of the universal join between the body and the soul, one so embedded in the marrow of our culture that it moves...
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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry : 2
Re: Kirsti Määttänen Inference from particulars to particulars is also called analogy. Peirce gave a pretty fair account of the logic behind statistical inference, as actually used in the research...
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Demonstrative And Otherwise
Peircers, I am constantly encountering what I perceive as echoes of Peircean themes in places where acquaintance with or interest in Peirce’s work is slight at best, and that leaves me with a lot of...
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Theme One • A Program Of Inquiry : 1
Re: Jerry Chandler et al. Peircers, I view psychology, throughout its many branches, as a fascinating and compelling collection of subjects, so much so that I spent one of my parallel lives in the...
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Theme One • A Program Of Inquiry : 2
Re: Jerry Chandler Peircers, I’ve been assembling and continuing to develop what documentation I have on the following page: Theme One Program I think I was probably the first person in that particular...
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Constraints and Indications : 1
Re: Christophe Menant • (1) • (2) The system-theoretic concept of “constraint” is one that unifies a manifold of other notions — definition, determination, habit, information, law, predicate,...
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Theme One • A Program Of Inquiry : 3
Re: Gary Richmond Peircers, The program I wrote for my M.A. in Psych was barely a prototype, a “test of concept”, as they say, but I continued to develop and apply the underlying collection of ideas to...
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Plato’s Puppet Returns
Re: Peter Cameron Between the discovery and the invention, Falls the Shadow, who knows, you know, By tracking backward, retracing the steps Of the tourist, who comes not to conquer, But to enjoy the...
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Code Meno Code : 1
Adapted from Prospects for Inquiry Driven Systems 1.1.2.3. The Trees, The Forest A sticking point of the whole discussion has just been reached. In the idyllic setting of a knowledge field the question...
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Theme One • A Program Of Inquiry : 4
Re: Next Polymath Project • What, When, Where? Here is a bit of data on the Theme One Program that I worked on all through the 1980s. The aim was to develop fundamental algorithms and data structures...
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A Meno Acid
What answers to the Meno Paradox Comes in the moment of realizing — Gathering together the building blocks Is just the beginning of the building.
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What part do arguments from authority play in mathematical reasoning?
In forming your answer you may choose to address any or all of the following aspects of the question: Descriptive What part do arguments from authority actually play in mathematical reasoning?...
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How To Succeed In Proof Business Without Really Trying
Re: Surely You Are Joking? Comment 1 Even at the mailroom entry point of propositional calculus, there is a qualitative difference between insight proofs and routine proofs. Human beings can do either...
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Where Is Fancy Bred?
Re: Fitness Landscapes as Mental and Mathematical Models of Evolution The question of “mental models” has occupied my thoughts for quite a while. As intelligent agents with a capacity for inquiry, we...
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Objects, Models, Theories : 1
Happy Birthday, Charles Sanders Peirce❢ — September 10, 1839 Re: Three Types of Mathematical Models Comment 1 In talking of models we often find denizens of different disciplines talking at cross...
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Architectonics of Inquiry : 1
Re: Teaching Helps Research Along these lines, if somewhat tangentially, are some questions that I’ve wondered about for many years. How do research and teaching interact, and how might they act to...
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Objects, Models, Theories : 2
Re: The Graph Of Math Re: Three Types Of Mathematical Models What — if anything — is the common sense that connects the different senses of the word model, as it has been used over the years in logic,...
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Objects, Models, Theories : 3
Re: Tom Gollier Tom, Here my task is to build bridges between several different classical and contemporary uses of the word “model”, so I don’t have the luxury of complete control over the words in...
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