Category Archives: Analogy

The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 29

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • JA • JFS cc: Systems Science • Structural Modeling • Ontolog Forum • Laws of Form • Cybernetics

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 28

Posted on October 15, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 20 I had to go back and remind myself why I took up this thread again, but at least it supplies a lot of material for future study on … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 24

Posted on September 22, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Laws of Form • James Bowery The concepts of closure and idempotence are closely related. We usually speak of a closure operator in contexts where the objects acted on are the primary interest, as in topology, where the objects … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 23

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Structural Modeling • Joseph Simpson Re: Peirce’s 1870 Logic Of Relatives • Selection 1 A critical question in mathematical logic and its applications concerns the threshold of complexity between dyadic (binary) and triadic (ternary) relations, in essence, whether 2-place … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 22

Posted on September 19, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Peirce Society Facebook Page • JC • JA • JA • JA • JC A discussion — well, more like a series of posts and counterposts — arose last week on the Facebook Page of the Charles S. Peirce Society, … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 21

Posted on September 18, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • John Bottoms Re: The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 20 The reflections in my previous blog post developed over several weeks observing various discussions around the web where people seemed to be … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 20

Posted on September 17, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Cross-paradigm communication, like cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural communication, can be difficult.  Sometimes people do not even recognize the existence of other paradigms, disciplines, cultures, long before it comes to the question of their value.  Readers of Peirce know he often uses … Continue reading →

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 27

Posted on August 20, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Gil Kalai • Avi Wigderson : Integrating Computational Modeling, Algorithms, and Complexity into Theories of Nature Marks a New Scientific Revolution! I took a look at Avi’s paper “On the Nature of the Theory of Computation” (OtNotToC).  There is … Continue reading →

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 26

Posted on August 6, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Gil Kalai • Avi Wigderson : Integrating Computational Modeling, Algorithms, and Complexity into Theories of Nature Marks a New Scientific Revolution! Projects giving a central place to computation in scientific inquiry go back to Hobbes and Leibniz, at least, … Continue reading →

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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Discussion 14

Posted on February 21, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Bruce Schuman Information and optimization go hand in hand — discovering the laws or constraints naturally governing the systems in which we live is a big part of moving toward our hearts’ desires within them.  I’m … Continue reading →

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