Charles Sanders Peirce (“purse”) was extremely fond of classifying things into groups of three. For 10 points each:
[10e] Peirce defined semiosis as a triadic relation involving one of these things plus its object and its interpretant. Semiotics is the study of these things.
ANSWER: signs
[10m] Two answers required. Peirce recognized three types of inference: deduction, and these two other similarly named types of inference.
ANSWER: induction AND abduction [accept answers in either order; accept inductive reasoning in place of “induction”; accept abductive reasoning in place of “abduction”]
[10h] In his metaphysics, Peirce theorized three forms of evolution: the love-based agapasm (“AG-uh-pasm”), the necessity-based anancasm (“ANN-in-kasm”), and this form, which he equated with Darwinian evolution.
ANSWER: tychasm [or tychastic evolution; accept tychism; accept tychasticism]
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