Author Archives: Jon Awbrey

“What we’ve got here is (a) failure to communicate” • 5

Posted on November 12, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Excerpt from C.S. Peirce, “Minute Logic” (1902), CP 2.144–148 2.2. Why Study Logic? 2.2.5. Reasoning and Expectation 144.   But since you propose to study logic, you have more or less faith in reasoning, as affording knowledge of the truth. Now … Continue reading →

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“What we’ve got here is (a) failure to communicate” • 4

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Excerpt from Sigmund Freud, “Project for a Scientific Psychology” (1895) The Experience of Satisfaction The filling of the nuclear neurones in Ψ has as its consequence an effort to discharge, an impetus which is released along motor pathways. Experience shows … Continue reading →

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“What we’ve got here is (a) failure to communicate” • 3

Posted on November 8, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Communication, as you may have guessed, is one of those areas where I more often mis- than hit, so I always have lots of chances to reflect on the trials of communication, its ways and waylays. Communication works if the … Continue reading →

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“What we’ve got here is (a) failure to communicate” • 2

Posted on November 7, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

There are areas of human concern and conduct where I have a lot of personal experience but very little positive knowledge — my experiences are rich in disappointment, failure, frustration, very spare in success.  What knowledge I gain is the … Continue reading →

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“What we’ve got here is (a) failure to communicate” • 1

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

A figure rises, in bas relief, as the ground slips away …

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Peircean Semiotics and Triadic Sign Relations • 3

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Having labored mightily to bring out a new edition of my article on sign relations, including material on the pivotal concept of semiotic equivalence relations which had fallen into obscurity elsewhere, I thought it worth the candle to post a … Continue reading →

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Every Day Is All Hallows Night

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

The film of nightmare that covers the world. The work it takes to make it mean something.

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Architectonics of Inquiry • 1

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: R.J. Lipton • Teaching Helps Research Along these lines, if somewhat tangentially, are some questions that I’ve wondered about for many years. How do research and teaching interact, and how might they act to catalyze one another in the … Continue reading →

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Differential Analytic Turing Automata • Discussion 1

Posted on October 14, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • Proving Cook’s Theorem Synchronicity Rules❢ I just started reworking an old exposition of mine on Cook’s Theorem, where I borrowed the Parity Function example from Wilf (1986), Algorithms and Complexity, and translated it … Continue reading →

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Definition and Determination • 10

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

The moment, then, that we pass from nothing and the vacuity of being to any content or sphere, we come at once to a composite content and sphere.  In fact, extension and comprehension — like space and time — are … Continue reading →

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