Category Archives: Algorithms

Problems In Philosophy • 8

Posted on November 4, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • David Whitten Dear David, I’ll extend this post tomorrow, apocalypse permitting, but while I wait for the election returns I’ll post just a pair of links to the Wikiversity articles on Descriptive Science and Normative Science, … Continue reading →

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Problems In Philosophy • 7

Posted on November 3, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: FB | Charles S. Peirce Society (a) John Corcoran • Cosmic Justice Hypotheses (b) John Corcoran • The Inseparability of Logic and Ethics Peirce emphasized the intricate relationships among the Big Three Normative Sciences — Aesthetics, Ethics, Logic — … Continue reading →

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Problems In Philosophy • 6

Posted on November 2, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Another one of those recurring questions I’m constantly forgetting what I wrote about or where before just came up again on the Gödel’s Lost Letter blog. Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • The Night Of The Ethical Algorithm Classical … Continue reading →

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Theme One • A Program Of Inquiry 20

Posted on October 24, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Richard J. Lipton • Vaccines Are Not Developing Back in the day when I was making The Big Bucks (inflation-adjusted dollars) consulting on research statistics in bioscience-medical-nursing-public-health settings, I noticed a certain analogy between propositional calculus research (PCR0) and … Continue reading →

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Theme One • A Program Of Inquiry 19

Posted on October 7, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Richard J. Lipton • Knowledge Is Good It’s the usual thing to say scientific inquiry involves a combination of deductive and inductive reasoning.  A slightly different, 3-phase model, going back to Aristotle and revived by Charles S. Peirce, analyzes … Continue reading →

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Theme One • A Program Of Inquiry 18

Posted on September 1, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Michael Harris • The Inevitable Questions About Automated Theorem Proving MH:  Even if computers understand, they don’t understand in a human way. I like the simple-mindedness of that. (A simple mind is one with no proper normal submind.) Fifty-plus … Continue reading →

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Survey of Theme One Program • 3

Posted on August 28, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of blog and wiki posts relating to the Theme One Program I worked on all through the 1980s.  The aim was to develop fundamental algorithms and data structures for integrating empirical learning with logical reasoning.  I … Continue reading →

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Differential Analytic Turing Automata • Discussion 2

Posted on July 31, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Scott Aaronson • The Busy Beaver Frontier Dear Scott, This discussion inspired me to go back and look at some of the work I did in the late 80s when I was trying to understand Cook’s Theorem.  One of … Continue reading →

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Theme One • A Program Of Inquiry 17

Posted on December 7, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

The move is all over but the unpacking, and the time looks ripe to pick up the following thread from last spring.  Here, by way of a quick refresher, are a few Tables from earlier discussions. Theme One • A … Continue reading →

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Theme One Program • Discussion 4

Posted on June 28, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Systems Science • Joseph Simpson Let me step back and talk about the research intention driving this work. In a very real sense everything I’ve been doing along this line of inquiry for the last fifty years falls within … Continue reading →

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