Justus Buchler (1914 – 1991) is a contemporary American philosopher, creator of a general theory of human reasoning, which has a direct as well as broad general significance for the study of signs.
The difference it makes in the three modes of inference: affirmative, active, and indicative, as well as his works on art and in particular poetry as a form of demonstrative inference, deserves serious attention.
His rigorous and nuanced reflections on topics such as meaning, communication, and challenges are also significant.
Some of his more significant books are:
- Charles Pierce’s Empiricism (1939);
- Nature and Judgment (1955);
- Toward a General Theory of Human Judgment (1951 and 1979);
- The Concept of Method (1961);
- The Main of Light: On the Concept of Poetry (1974);
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