Category Archives: Abstraction

I’ve been too immersed in the Peirce List discussion of Robert Marty’s “Podium” paper to write much here — before I lose track of what I’ve been thinking the last several days I’ll need to ravel up my off-the-cuff remarks … Continue reading →

Re: Peirce List • Robert Marty RM: I submit for your review this preprint which is awaiting publication: The Podium of the Universal Categories of C.S. Peirce Abstract This article organizes Peirce’s universal categories and their degenerate forms from their presupposition … Continue reading →

Re: Peirce List • Robert Marty RM: What do you think of the presuppositions between the levels? Do they make sense to you? At this point I have mostly questions, which would take further research to answer, not to mention … Continue reading →

Re: Peirce List • Robert Marty With a few choice exceptions I have always found Peirce’s earlier writings on categories, relations, and semiotics to be more clear, exact, and fruitful in practice than his last attempts to explain himself without … Continue reading →

Re: Peirce List • JFS • JBD Different minds are drawn to Peirce for different reasons and they tend to discover different stores of value there.  I was attracted to his work largely for his insights into logic, math, and … Continue reading →

Re: Peirce List • Helmut Raulien There is a kind of “second cousin” kinship between category markers and grammatical aspects, moods, or tenses.  In several drafts of an earlier comment I experimented with grammatical terms like conjugation, declension, diacritic, inflection, … Continue reading →

Re: Cybernetics • Bernard Cohen I began that note on the Precursors of Category Theory as a purely exploratory sketch, plotting a few points on a single theme with no plans of making an exhaustive survey.  Even at that I … Continue reading →

Re: FB | Systems Sciences • Kenneth Lloyd Scanning the spectrum of sources I sampled in my Precursors of Category Theory, there are many differences in the categorical paradigms different observers developed over the centuries.  Just for starters, the numbers … Continue reading →

Re: Peirce Society Facebook Page • Ricardo Bibi Tamtam Durski The best way to get clear about Peirce’s categories is to look to their origin in Aristotle’s concept of a category, in effect nothing more mysterious than a grammatical device … Continue reading →