Author Archives: Jon Awbrey

Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Discussion 1

Posted on August 22, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Systems Science • Kenneth Lloyd Ken’s comment made me realize that the notation is probably not the best.  It tends to mislead us into thinking we already have in hand, in other words, that we already have perfect information … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Ψ

Posted on August 21, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

I remember it was back in ’76 when I began to notice a subtle shift of focus in the computer science journals I was reading, from discussing X to discussing Information About X, a transformation I noted mentally as whenever … Continue reading →

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Inquiry Driven Systems • Comment 5

Posted on August 19, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Bruce Schuman I would call that the pragmatic semiotic point of view and not find anything shocking in it. One can find earlier foreshadowings — Plato’s Cratylus and the Stoic lekton are often mentioned in this … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relations • 10

Posted on August 15, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Ravi Sharma The words predicate, proposition, relation, and so on are affected by many variations in usage.  Some of their uses are associated with philosophical habits unlikely to change any time soon.  But there are a … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relations • 9

Posted on August 14, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Ronald Stamper Concrete examples are very instructive in this arena, and when it comes to refutations a single counter-example serves to puncture many a fallacious general proposition. Here’s a couple of articles, illustrated with concrete examples of … Continue reading →

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Inquiry Driven Systems • Comment 4

Posted on August 12, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Matthew West In the systems approach to inquiry I’ve been pursuing, all specifications, state descriptions, or values of variables come in three modalities:  expected, intended, and actually observed. A difference between expectation and observation is accounted … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relations • 8

Posted on July 6, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Ferenc Kovacs Our thoughts live in natural and artificial languages the way fish swim in natural and artificial bodies of water. One of the lessons most strikingly impressed on me by my first‑year physics course and … Continue reading →

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Constraints and Indications • 2

Posted on July 4, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Joseph Simpson Coping with collaboration, communication, context, integration, interoperability, perspective, purpose, and the reality of the information dimension demands a transition from conceptual environments bounded by dyadic relations to those informed by triadic relations, especially the … Continue reading →

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Inquiry Driven Systems • Comment 3

Posted on July 2, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Michael DeBellis I remember Doug Medin from the year I was at Illinois and I recall a colloquium talk Frank Keil gave at Michigan State which intrigued me because he echoed ideas from Kant about the … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relations • 7

Posted on June 29, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Joseph Simpson JS: A binary relation is a set of ordered pairs of the elements of some other set. That is the first definition I learned for binary relations. Slightly more generally, a binary relation is … Continue reading →

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