The object of reasoning is to find out …

[Jon Awbrey]

The object of reasoning is to find out …
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/23/the-object-of-reasoning-is-to-find-out-a/

❝No longer wondered what I would do in life but defined my object.❞
— C.S. Peirce • “My Life, written for the Class-Book” (1861)

❝The object of reasoning is to find out, from the consideration of
what we already know, something else which we do not know.❞
— C.S. Peirce • “The Fixation of Belief” (1877)

If the object of an investigation is to find out something
we do not know then the clues we discover along the way
are the signs which determine that object.

People will continue to be confused about determination so long as they
can think of no other forms but analytic-behaviorist-causal-dyadic-temporal,
object-as-stimulus, sign-as-response varieties. It's true ordinary language
biases us toward billiard‑ball styles of dyadic determination but there are
triadic forms of constraint, determination, and interaction not captured by
S‑R chains of that order.

A pragmatic‑semiotic object is anything we talk or think about
and semiosis does not conduct its transactions within the bounds
of object-as-cue, sign-as-cue-ball, and interpretants as solids,
stripes, or pockets.

References —

Peirce, C.S. (1859–1861), “My Life, written for the Class-Book”,
pp. 1–3 in Writings of Charles S. Peirce : A Chronological Edition,
Volume 1, 1857–1866, Peirce Edition Project, Indiana University Press,
Bloomington, IN, 1982.
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2016/03/16/abduction-deduction-induction-analogy-inquiry-17/

Peirce, C.S. (1877), “The Fixation Of Belief”, Popular Science Monthly 12
(Nov 1877), pp. 1–15. Reprinted in Collected Papers, CP 5.358–387.
• https://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/fixation/fx-main.htm#CP5.365
• https://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/fixation/fx-frame.htm

Regards,

Jon

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