Author Archives: Jon Awbrey

Inquiry Into Inquiry • Discussion 1

Posted on September 9, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Inquiry Into Inquiry • On Balance Re: Laws of Form • Peter Jones PJ: I realise, in brief, the extent of your project — Inquiry Driven Systems • Problem but reading your post makes me wonder about the core … Continue reading →

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Inquiry Into Inquiry • On Balance

Posted on September 8, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Everyone knows what it means to have obstacles to overcome or events to understand and how we go hunting for whatever action, model, or theory will do the trick.  Other times we have a scheme or theory all ready in … Continue reading →

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Riffs and Rotes • 59281

Posted on September 5, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Persiflage • 59281 Numberfile • What’s Special About 59,281? If is prime then the decimal expansion of repeats, so it makes sense to talk about the “average” of the digits of   The average can be bigger than equal … Continue reading →

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On Reading Peirce • Discussion 2

Posted on September 5, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Jon Awbrey • Gary Richmond JA: Well, it’s true, all science is under construction. But not everything under construction is a science. GR: True.  But I’d suggest that there is no good reason to block the … Continue reading →

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On Reading Peirce • Discussion 1

Posted on September 4, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Jon Awbrey • John Sowa JFS: I detect a prebit of irony in your note. Although I respect Peirce’s ethics of terminology and observe his recommendations when they are appropriate and realistic, I also know that … Continue reading →

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Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Discussion 16

Posted on September 2, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: FB | Semeiotics • Marius V. Constantin MVC: Have you taken into consideration the difference between weak negation and strong negation? I always begin classically where logic is concerned — I guess that means “strong” negation — we make … Continue reading →

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Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Discussion 15

Posted on September 1, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Robert Marty (quoted) RM: I persist in the idea that in your six combinations [O, S, I] only one is relevant for semiotics, the others being out of the field […] On the projections, there is also … Continue reading →

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Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Discussion 14

Posted on August 31, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Animated Logical Graphs • 81 Re: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Discussion 13 Topics arising in various circles I traverse on the web are flashing me back to my earliest influences in the ways of inquiry driven systems.  Dick … Continue reading →

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Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Discussion 13

Posted on August 30, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Category Theory • Peiyuan Zhu • Henry Story Dear Peiyuan, Henry … Way back during my first foundations + identity crisis I explored every alternative, deviant, non-standard version of logic and set theory I could scrape up — I remember … Continue reading →

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Animated Logical Graphs • 81

Posted on August 26, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • A Negative Comment On Negations Minsky and Papert’s Perceptrons was the work that nudged me over the line from gestalt psychology, psychophysics, relational biology, etc. and made me believe AI could fly.  I later … Continue reading →

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