Monthly Archives: February 2020

Special Classes of Propositions (cont.) Let’s pause at this point and get a better sense of how our special classes of propositions are structured and how they relate to propositions in general.  We can do this by recruiting our visual … Continue reading →

Special Classes of Propositions Before moving on, let’s unpack some of the assumptions, conventions, and implications involved in the array of concepts and notations introduced above. A universe of discourse qualified by the logical features is a set plus the set … Continue reading →

Formal Development The preceding discussion outlined the ideas leading to the differential extension of propositional logic.  The next task is to lay out the concepts and terminology needed to describe various orders of differential propositional calculi. Elementary Notions Logical description … Continue reading →

Cactus Calculus Table 6 outlines a syntax for propositional calculus based on two types of logical connectives, both of variable -ary scope. A bracketed sequence of propositional expressions is taken to mean exactly one of the propositions is false, in … Continue reading →

A differential propositional calculus is a propositional calculus extended by a set of terms for describing aspects of change and difference, for example, processes taking place in a universe of discourse or transformations mapping a source universe to a target … Continue reading →

The most fundamental concept in cybernetics is that of “difference”, either that two things are recognisably different or that one thing has changed with time. W. Ross Ashby • An Introduction to Cybernetics Here’s the outline of a sketch I … Continue reading →