Monthly Archives: October 2022

Sign Relational Manifolds • 1

Riemann’s concept of a manifold, especially as later developed, bears a close relationship to Peirce’s concept of a sign relation. I will have to wait for my present train of thought to stop at a station before I can hop … Continue reading

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Zeroth Law Of Semiotics • Discussion 2

Re: All Liar, No Paradox • Zeroth Law Of Semiotics Re: FB | Charles S. Peirce Society • Joseph Harry Paradoxes star among my first loves in logic.  So enamored was I with tricks of the mind’s eye I remember … Continue reading

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 31

Re: Scott Aaronson • Explanation-Gödel and Plausibility-Gödel Scott Aaronson asks a question arising from Gödel’s First Incompleteness Theorem, namely, what are its consequences for the differential values of explanation, plausibility, and proof?  I add the following thoughts. A general heuristic … Continue reading

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Theme One Program • Exposition 8

Transformation Rules and Equivalence Classes The abstract character of the cactus language relative to its logical interpretations makes it possible to give abstract rules of equivalence for transforming cacti among themselves and partitioning the space of cacti into formal equivalence … Continue reading

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