Author Archives: Jon Awbrey

Relations & Their Relatives • Discussion 22

Posted on September 16, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Roberto Rovetto (1) (2) RR: What’s your view on: When to create a greater-than-binary relation rather than a binary relation? Consider:  You want to represent some information, statement, or knowledge, without necessarily being forced to limit … Continue reading →

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Inquiry Into Inquiry • Discussion 3

Posted on September 15, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • (1) (2) Re: Inquiry Into Inquiry • Discussion 2 The fact most neglected about the Neglected Argument is its character as an abductive argument, a “Holy Guess” if you will to believe, and as such the … Continue reading →

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Relations & Their Relatives • Discussion 21

Posted on September 13, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Alex Shkotin AS: Let me underline an important point:  first of all, we have found in nature and society one or another relation and ask how many members each example of this relation can have?  i.e. … Continue reading →

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Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Discussion 17

Posted on September 12, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Robert Marty (1) (2) (3) Dear Robert, I’ve been reviewing the discussions of August on this topic and I think it might be possible to advance our inquiry and even establish new levels of competence in … Continue reading →

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Inquiry Into Inquiry • Discussion 2

Posted on September 11, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Phyllis Chiasson Re: Peirce List • Edwina Taborsky PC: Phenomenology is (with math) the underpinning of both scientific inquiry and everyday reasoning.  Improve one’s capability for observation and classification and you improve his/her ability to think … Continue reading →

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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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