Author Archives: Jon Awbrey

Animated Logical Graphs • 4

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Helmut Raulien It’s fair to say most of my university coursework leaned to the theoretical side but I did cobble together a respectable enough background in computing, statistics, and industrial-organizational styles of systems and simulation that … Continue reading →

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Animated Logical Graphs • 3

Posted on January 26, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Helmut Raulien I have a little more leisure now to start climbing back into the saddle, so let me see where we left off … Try looking into the article I linked before: Logical Graphs Or … Continue reading →

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Pragmatism About Theoretical Entities • 1

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

By theoretical entities I mean things like classes, properties, qualities, sets, situations, or states of affairs, in general, the putative denotations of theoretical concepts, formulas, sentences, terms, or treatises, in brief, the ostensible objects of signs. A conventional statement of … Continue reading →

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Animated Logical Graphs • 2

Posted on January 14, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Jim Willgoose It’s almost 50 years now since I first encountered the volumes of Peirce’s Collected Papers in the math library at Michigan State, and shortly afterwards a friend called my attention to the entry for … Continue reading →

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Animated Logical Graphs • 1

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

For Your Musement … Here are some animations I made up to illustrate several different styles of proof in an extended topological variant of Peirce’s Alpha Graphs for propositional logic. Proof Animations Double Negation Peirce’s Law Praeclarum Theorema Two‑Thirds Majority … Continue reading →

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Looking Back On 2014

Posted on December 31, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 25,000 times in 2014. If it were a … Continue reading →

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☝ What Ariadne Said To Theseus ☟

Posted on December 9, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

☞ ❝You have to understand, the Minotaur is not clueless —        it just has a different goal than getting out of the maze.❞ ☜

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Frankl, My Dear • 12

Posted on November 24, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

It is one of the rules of my system of general harmony, that the present is big with the future, and that he who sees all sees in that which is that which shall be. Leibniz • Theodicy Re: Dick … Continue reading →

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❦ Pyramus & Thisbe ❦

Posted on November 12, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

It’s all about love And the knots thereof I have known beauty I’ll bring it to you Jon Awbrey • 12 Nov 2014

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Frankl, My Dear • 11

Posted on November 10, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Dick Lipton & Ken Regan • (1) • (2) Let’s take a moment from the differential analysis of the proposition in Example 1 to form a handy compendium of the results obtained so far. Example 1 (1) Enlargement Map of … Continue reading →

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