Author Archives: Jon Awbrey

Semiotic Theory Of Information • 1

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

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?

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

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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Character, Action, Discretion

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

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

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

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

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

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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