Author Archives: Jon Awbrey

Forest Primeval → Riffs & Rotes

Posted on August 17, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Shifting Paradigms? • (1) • (2) • (3) • (4) • (5) • (6) Prompted by the discussion of Catalan numbers on the Foundations Of Math List, I dug up a few pieces of early correspondence and later discussions … Continue reading →

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¿Shifting Paradigms? • 2

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Timothy Chow • Shifting Paradigms? 2014 Jul 31 I can’t remember when I first started playing with Gödel codings of graph-theoretic structures, which arose in logical and computational settings, but I remember being egged on in that direction by … Continue reading →

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¿Shifting Paradigms? • 1

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Dana Scott • Shifting Paradigms? 2014 Jul 28 This is very interesting to me, but not all my posts make it to the list, so I will spend a few days reflecting on it and post a comment on … Continue reading →

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☯ Quantum Mechanics ☯

Posted on August 2, 2014 by Jon Awbrey
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Why is there so much falsity in the world?

Posted on July 30, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Because people prefer falsity to truth, illusion to reality. ⁂ Being the drift of my reflections on the plays I saw at Stratford this summer — King Lear, King John, Man of La Mancha, Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Crazy for You, Hay Fever. ⁂ The Beaux’ Stratagem • Masks, Madness, & … Continue reading →

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Doubt, Uncertainty, Dispersion, Entropy • 2

Posted on July 5, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Re: John Baez • Entropy and Information in Biological Systems To develop the concept of evolutionary games as “learning” processes in which information is gained over time. A fund of ideas toward that end can be found in the work … Continue reading →

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Doubt, Uncertainty, Dispersion, Entropy • 1

Posted on July 1, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Stephen Rose Just a note to anchor a series of recurring thoughts that come to mind in relation to a Peirce List discussion of entropy etc., but I won’t have much to say on the bio-chemico-physico-thermo-dynamic … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s 1870 “Logic of Relatives” • Intermezzo

Posted on June 18, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Peirce’s 1870 “Logic of Relatives” Update • 10 April 2022 This brings me to the end of the notes on Peirce’s 1870 Logic of Relatives I began posting to the web in various discussion groups a dozen (now a score) … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s 1870 “Logic of Relatives” • Comment 12.5

Posted on June 15, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Peirce’s 1870 “Logic of Relatives” • Comment 12.5 The equation can be verified by establishing the corresponding equation in matrices. If and are two 1-dimensional matrices over the same index set then if and only if for every   Thus, a routine way … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s 1870 “Logic of Relatives” • Comment 12.4

Posted on June 14, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Peirce’s 1870 “Logic of Relatives” • Comment 12.4 Peirce next considers a pair of compound involutions, stating an equation between them analogous to a law of exponents from ordinary arithmetic, namely,  Then will denote whatever stands to every woman in … Continue reading →

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