The duality between Entitative and Existential interpretations of logical graphs is a good example of a mathematical symmetry, in this case a symmetry of order two.  Symmetries of this and higher orders give us conceptual handles on excess complexity in the manifold of sensuous impressions, making it well worth the effort to seek them out and grasp them where we find them.

Both Peirce and Spencer Brown understood the significance of the mathematical unity underlying the dual interpretation of logical graphs.  Peirce began with the Entitative option and later switched to the Existential choice while Spencer Brown exercised the Entitative option in his Laws of Form.

In that vein, here’s a Rosetta Stone to give us a grounding in the relationship between boolean functions and our two readings of logical graphs.

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