Author Archives: Jon Awbrey

Character, Action, Discretion

Posted on September 28, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Character is revealed by action. ~~ Aristotle Action is discrete. ~~ Planck ———————————————————- The better part of valour is discretion. ~~ Shakespeare

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Frankl, My Dear • 3

Posted on September 17, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Dick Lipton & Ken Regan • (1) • (2) Here’s a few pages on differential logic, whose ideas I’ll be trying out in the present setting: Differential Logic : Introduction Differential Propositional Calculus Differential Logic and Dynamic Systems I … Continue reading →

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Consequences of Triadic Relation Irreducibility • 2

Posted on September 14, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

From time to time I come to the realization that there are ways of reading Peirce that make no sense to me.  When I stop to think about the potential sources of that evident divergence from common sense, the first … Continue reading →

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Consequences of Triadic Relation Irreducibility • 1

Posted on September 13, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

2014 Sep 10 I will have to be out of the loop for some days, but this post will give me a peg on which I can hang a few thoughts via mobile device that have been tugging at the … Continue reading →

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Frankl, My Dear • 2

Posted on September 11, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Dick Lipton & Ken Regan • (1) • (2) Supplied by the cache of definitions from Post 1, I can return to the passage from (2) that seemed to jog a bit of memory and see if what I imagined … Continue reading →

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Frankl, My Dear • 1

Posted on September 7, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Dick Lipton and Ken Regan • (1) • (2) I need to think a little about the context Lipton and Regan have wrapped around the Frankl Conjecture, if not exactly about the problem itself.  This will be a scratch-worky … Continue reading →

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Skiourosemiosis • 1

Posted on September 5, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

The resultant metaphysical problem now is this:Does the man go round the squirrel or not? — William James • Pragmatism ☞ Differential Analysis of Propositions and Transformations

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C.S. Peirce • Syllabus • Selection 1

Posted on August 24, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Selection from C.S. Peirce, “A Syllabus of Certain Topics of Logic” (1903) An Outline Classification of the Sciences 180.   This classification, which aims to base itself on the principal affinities of the objects classified, is concerned not with all … Continue reading →

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¿Shifting Paradigms? • 4

Posted on August 23, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Foundational Crisis? • Harvey Friedman 2014 Aug 22 Shock and surprise are relative to a prior state of belief.  The belief that mathematics reduces to logic, and that of a purely deductive sort from given axioms, seems to be … Continue reading →

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¿Shifting Paradigms? • 3

Posted on August 22, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Re: What Is Good Mathematics? • Harvey Friedman 2014 Aug 17 Speaking of mathematics in the context of “general intellectual activity” brings to mind Raymond Wilder’s take on “mathematics as a cultural system”. I would like to keep that in … Continue reading →

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