Monthly Archives: April 2026

Re: Reflection On Recursion • 1 Re: Laws of Form • John Mingers JM: This is a very important and interesting topic.  I think you should consider the relationship to self‑reference, indeed are they really the same thing? Also the … Continue reading →

A feature of special note in the recursion diagram is the function traversing the square from one triadic node to the other.  It preserves an image of the object all the while its precedent is being retrieved and processed — … Continue reading →

One other feature of syntactic recursion deserves to be brought into higher relief.  Evidence of it can be found in the recursion diagram by examining the places where three paths meet.  On the descending side there is the point where … Continue reading →

Turning to the form of a simple recursive function the clause we used to define it earns the title of “syntactic recursion” due to the way the function name occurring in the defined phrase re‑occurs in the defining phrase It … Continue reading →

Ongoing conversations with Dan Everett on Facebook have me backtracking to recurring questions about the relationship between formal language theory (as I once learned it) and the properties of natural languages as they are found occurring in the field.  A … Continue reading →