ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors acknowledge Soren Brier's mighty contribution to 4th wave Grounded Theory. Brier's theory of 'cybersemiotics' integrates Charles S. Peirce's semiotics with the autopoiesis of Niklas Luhmann's cybernetic 'closed' systems theory of three autopoieses. Brier was educated as a biologist, but made a Ph.D. in information philosophy of science and a habilitation in transdisciplinary philosophy of cognition and communication sciences with a special focus on transdisciplinary approaches like information cybernetics, systems, information, and semiotical sciences. Peirce's doctrine of realism is grounded in socio-biological and evolution forms of science as a way of critical common sensism problem-solving. Peirce divides probable reasoning into deductive and amplicative reasoning. Peirce's Laws of Nature un lucks Hegel, and "the arcana of philosophy" of both physics and mathematics. In 1866 Peirce contended that natural classes have three characteristics: an initial, defining character of the class; characters must be logically implied by its definition; and the class must include one or more empirical characters.
