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JAwbrey
What is truth? It's a property of a sign, or a representation,
that makes it a good sign, a representation that is so natured
or so designed as to further the achievement its proper object.
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In a recent discussion on spatio-temporal
representations of 'apparently' straightforward
realworld concepts such as the difference between a river and a lake in
GIS, the environmentalists, the geographers,
the
fishermen, the freshwater biologists used very different criteria
reflecting fact that the 'proper object' they sought to achieve were
not the same.
However…the
Ordnance Survey team will make a choice
We will then all adopt and use it as a given when the maps come out.
It will then become so embedded in a range of other processes that will
make it well nigh impossible to coordinate activities without
reinforcing it as
a benchmark.
Like the
aboriginal songlines we do appear to create and recreate many aspects
of the ‘real’
world by validating and enacting those we agree on.
Peirce
said that: The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by
all who investigate, is what we mean by the truth, and the object
represented
in this opinion is the real. Perhaps over-egging the
pudding a little but think there is something to
it!
Jon Awbrey wrote:
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LAFS. Note 3
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Peirce continues a classical line of calling logic a normative science,
a science of how we ought to do things of we want to achieve a certain
class of objectives. This makes logic, whose object is truth, akin to
aesthetics, whose object is beauty, pleasure, or experiential goodness,
and ethics, whose object is virtue, justice, or comportmental goodness.
What is the good of logic? The classical answer is "truth".
What is truth? It's a property of a sign, or a representation,
that makes it a good sign, a representation that is so natured
or so designed as to further the achievement its proper object.
Jon Awbrey
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