Author Archives: Jon Awbrey

The Big Picture

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Scientific knowledge will not save the world if it remains in the brains and blogs and journals of scientists and makes no impression on people in general, policymakers, and the powers that be. Reflections on recent discussions too numerous to … Continue reading →

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Knowledge Workers of the World, Unite❢

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Comments on Gowers’s Weblog Post 1. What’s wrong with electronic journals? Comment 1.1 Having spent a good part of the 1990s writing about what the New Millennium would bring to our intellectual endeavours, it is only fair that I should … Continue reading →

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Sinecure

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Forgive me, Author, for I have signed A sign that forges your original sign — How I miss the indelible mark of thine!

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Forwarding Address for Knol Articles

Posted on December 25, 2011 by Jon Awbrey

It looks like the Annotum developers are following the fashion of the day in rolling out their platform first and testing it later. There doesn’t appear to be any way to edit the articles ported over from Knol to Annotum … Continue reading →

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I Am A Rock

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Jon Awbrey

I Am A Rock

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Peirce’s Law

Posted on October 6, 2008 by Jon Awbrey

Peirce’s law is a logical proposition that states a non-obvious truth of classical logic and affords a novel way of defining classical propositional calculus. Continue reading →

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Praeclarum Theorema

Posted on October 5, 2008 by Jon Awbrey

The praeclarum theorema, or splendid theorem, is a theorem of propositional calculus that was noted and named by G.W. Leibniz. Continue reading →

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Logical Graphs • Formal Development

Posted on September 19, 2008 by Jon Awbrey

Logical graphs are next presented as a formal system by going back to the initial elements and developing their consequences in a systematic manner. Continue reading →

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Hypostatic Abstraction

Posted on August 8, 2008 by Jon Awbrey

Hypostatic Abstraction (HA) is a formal operation on a subject–predicate form that preserves its information while introducing a new subject and upping the “arity” of its predicate. To cite a notorious example, HA turns “Opium is drowsifying” into “Opium has dormitive virtue”. Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Maxim

Posted on August 7, 2008 by Jon Awbrey

The pragmatic maxim is a guideline for the practice of inquiry formulated by Charles Sanders Peirce. Serving as a normative recommendation or a regulative principle in the normative science of logic, its function is to guide the conduct of thought toward the achievement of its aims, advising the addressee on an optimal way of “attaining clearness of apprehension”. Continue reading →

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