Re: Definition and Determination • (18) • (19) • (20) • (21)
Re: Laws of Form • Lyle Anderson

Dear Lyle,

The labyrinth of Socratic switchbacks and dialogical detours in Excerpt 21 gave several readers fits of befuddlement.  I think I threaded the maze well enough in what I wrote last time to resolve the more difficult issues, but I guess time will tell.

The remainder of your reply invites us to consider a number of substantive topics, all of which arise quite naturally in this context and all of which will occupy us in the sequel, but for now I have only enough time to record the following outline of topics to take up.

• Boundary, Content, Cybernetics, Difference, Differential Logic, Distinction, Essential Variable, Gradient, Interior, Motive, Tropism, Topology, Value.
• Automata, Chomsky–Schützenberger Hierarchy, Computational Complexity,
  Formal Languages, Finite-State Machines, …, Turing Machines.
• Perfect Information Observer, God’s Eye View, Hologrammautomaton.
• Finite Information Observer, Human Eye View, Homunculomorphisms (1) (2).

Resources

• Collection Of Source Materials
• Excerpts on Definition
• Excerpts on Determination
• Survey of Definition and Determination
• Inquiry Driven Systems • The Formative Tension

cc: Inquiry List • Peirce List (1) (2) (3) (4)
cc: Cybernetics (1) (2) • Ontolog Forum • Structural Modeling (1) (2) • Systems Science
cc: FB | Inquiry Driven Systems • Laws of Form