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Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, Volume 3: 1872–1878
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Sidney Hook's Pragmatic Anti-Communism: Commitment to Democracy as Method
TL;DR: This paper argued that the long-standing fight against Communism should be understood as an unwavering application of the democratic method in line with his mentor John Dewey's understanding of pragmatism as well as the commitment to scientific empiricism espoused by earlier pragmatists C. S. Peirce and William James.
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Conceptual change and development on multiple time scales: From incremental evolution to origins
TL;DR: In the context of the relationship between signs and concepts, the authors tackles head on some of the ongoing controversies over conceptual development and change, taking the position that concepts pull apart from language and that concepts can be discussed on at least four levels: individual agent, community, society, and language.
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The Fallacy of the Cognitive Free Fall in Communication Metaphor: A Semiotic Analysis
TL;DR: A semiotically inspired model of communication is promoted that demonstrates that what takes place in communication is not a cognitive free fall, but rather a fall from a pragmatic level of knowing or knowledge to a level of representation or information.
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Evaluations as value-measurement links: Exploring metrics and meanings in science
TL;DR: This article provided a more detailed insight into the entanglement of value and measurement, drawing on insights from semiotics and a Bourdieusian perspective on language as an economizer.