Monthly Archives: December 2020

Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory • Discussion 4

Re: Previous Post Re: Cybernetics • Cliff Joslyn Dear Cliff, Many thanks for your thoughtful reply.  I copied a transcript to my blog to take up first thing next year.  Here’s hoping we all have a better one! Regards, Jon CJ: … Continue reading

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Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory • Discussion 3

Re: Peirce List • Helmut Raulien HR: As Peircean semiotics is a three-valued logic, I think it bears relevance for the discussion about multiple-valued logic. Dear Helmut, The distinction between “k-adic” (involving a span of k dimensions) and “k-tomic” (involving … Continue reading

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Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems • 3

This is a Survey of blog and wiki posts on Inquiry Driven Systems, material I plan to refine toward a more compact and systematic treatment of the subject. An inquiry driven system is a system having among its state variables … Continue reading

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Inquiry Driven Systems • Comment 6

Re: Peter Cameron • Publication : An Author’s View Dear Peter, It’s funny you should mention Tennyson’s poem in the context of an author’s view of publication as I once laid out a detailed interpretation of the poem as a … Continue reading

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Animated Logical Graphs • 52

Re: Richard J. Lipton • The Future Of Mathematics? • Is The End Near? Re: Peirce List • Jon Alan Schmidt Peirce’s explorations in logic and the theory of signs opened several directions of generalization from logics of complete information … Continue reading

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Animated Logical Graphs • 51

Re: Richard J. Lipton • The Future Of Mathematics? • Is The End Near? Synchronicity being what it is, a long-running discussion on the Peirce List just gave me a handy bridge to a topic I’ve been meaning to take … Continue reading

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Survey of Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 2

This is a Survey of blog and wiki posts on three elementary forms of inference, as recognized by a logical tradition extending from Aristotle through Charles S. Peirce.  Particular attention is paid to the way these inferential rudiments combine to … Continue reading

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 30

Re: Richard J. Lipton • The Future Of Mathematics? • Is The End Near? Re: “Proofs Are Not As Important As Discoveries” (PANAIAD). Conjecture and Discovery fall under the heading of Abductive Inference (AI’s missing grape). About which more when I pull … Continue reading

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Animated Logical Graphs • 50

Re: Richard J. Lipton • The Art Of Math Re: Animated Logical Graphs • (30) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) In the last of our six ways of looking at the Peirce duality between entitative and existential interpretations, we consider … Continue reading

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Animated Logical Graphs • 49

Re: Richard J. Lipton • The Art Of Math Re: Animated Logical Graphs • (30) (45) (46) (47) (48) Dualities are symmetries of order two and symmetries bear on complexity by reducing its measure in proportion to their order.  The … Continue reading

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