Author Archives: Jon Awbrey

Frankl, My Dear • 5

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Dick Lipton & Ken Regan • (1) • (2) Putting all thought of the Frankl Conjecture out of our minds for the moment, let’s return to the proposition in Example 1 and work through its differential analysis from scratch. Example … Continue reading →

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Semiotic Theory Of Information • 6

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

2014 Oct 14 Through the 1970s I gradually recovered from my early traumas with Fortran, and with the aid of more symbol-friendly programming languages like Lisp and Pascal began to play around again with implementing simple forms of graphical calculi … Continue reading →

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Semiotic Theory Of Information • 5

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

2014 Oct 09 I will continue assembling an assortment of background materials and links to other resources that I think are useful in understanding Peirce’s notion of information and how it has the potential to extend and generalize both our … Continue reading →

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Semiotic Theory Of Information • 4

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

2014 Oct 08 “Let us now return to the information.”  To coin a phrase.  This time around we come to Peirce’s notion of information in a critical and recurring passage that Frederik Stjernfelt takes as the next stepping stone from … Continue reading →

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Semiotic Theory Of Information • 3

Posted on October 12, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

2014 Oct 08 Re: Resources On Peircean Information Theory • (1) • (2) In trying to remember why I started this thread, I traced it back to the point when various notions of information came up in Chapter 3.3 of … Continue reading →

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Semiotic Theory Of Information • 2

Posted on October 11, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

2014 Oct 06 Some portions of a paper Susan Awbrey and I presented at a Society for Applied Learning Technology conference in 1990 may be relevant at this juncture. Exploring Research Data Interactively • Theme One • A Program of … Continue reading →

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Semiotic Theory Of Information • 1

Posted on October 10, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

2014 Oct 06 On the subject of Peirce’s laws of information — or the semiotic theory of information — here are a few links that come to mind for possible future reference: Semiotic Information Information = Comprehension × Extension And … Continue reading →

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C.S. Peirce • Syllabus • Selection 2

Posted on October 4, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

But round about the castle there began to grow a hedge of thorns, which every year became higher, and at last grew close up round the castle and all over it, so that there was nothing of it to be … Continue reading →

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What’s The Use?

Posted on October 1, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

What’s the use of getting up in the morning? Never mind that now, I’m already up. Be constructive.  Try to focus on something positive. Okay, then, what’s the use of logic? You call that focused?  Be more specific! So what’s … Continue reading →

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Frankl, My Dear • 4

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Dick Lipton & Ken Regan • (1) • (2) Let’s go back to the “key lemma” from (2) and try it out on a simple example, just to get a sense of what the terms mean. Lemma.  Let be … Continue reading →

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