Category Archives: Animata

Charles Sanders Peirce, George Spencer Brown, and Me • 20

Posted on September 16, 2025 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Laws of Form • James Bowery JB: I’m interested in those who have approached the notion of self‑duality from the meta‑perspective of switching perspectives between Directed Cyclic Graphs of NiNAND and NiNOR gates (Ni for N‑Inputs à la boolean … Continue reading →

Posted in Abstraction, Amphecks, Analogy, Animata, Boolean Algebra, Boolean Functions, C.S. Peirce, Cactus Graphs, Cybernetics, Deduction, Differential Analytic Turing Automata, Differential Logic, Duality, Form, Graph Theory, Inquiry, Inquiry Driven Systems, Laws of Form, Logic, Logical Graphs, Mathematics, Minimal Negation Operators, Model Theory, Proof Theory, Propositional Calculus, Semiotics, Sign Relational Manifolds, Sign Relations, Spencer Brown, Theorem Proving, Time, Topology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Charles Sanders Peirce, George Spencer Brown, and Me • 19

Posted on September 10, 2025 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Laws of Form • James Bowery JB: I’m interested in those who have approached the notion of self‑duality from the meta‑perspective of switching perspectives between Directed Cyclic Graphs of NiNAND and NiNOR gates (Ni for N‑Inputs à la boolean … Continue reading →

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Charles Sanders Peirce, George Spencer Brown, and Me • 18

Posted on September 7, 2025 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Laws of Form • James Bowery JB: I’m interested in those who have approached the notion of self‑duality from the meta‑perspective of switching perspectives between Directed Cyclic Graphs of NiNAND and NiNOR gates (Ni for N‑Inputs à la boolean … Continue reading →

Posted in Abstraction, Amphecks, Analogy, Animata, Boolean Algebra, Boolean Functions, C.S. Peirce, Cactus Graphs, Cybernetics, Deduction, Differential Analytic Turing Automata, Differential Logic, Duality, Form, Graph Theory, Inquiry, Inquiry Driven Systems, Laws of Form, Logic, Logical Graphs, Mathematics, Minimal Negation Operators, Model Theory, Proof Theory, Propositional Calculus, Semiotics, Sign Relational Manifolds, Sign Relations, Spencer Brown, Theorem Proving, Time, Topology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Charles Sanders Peirce, George Spencer Brown, and Me • 17

Posted on August 22, 2025 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Laws of Form • James Bowery JB: I’m interested in those who have approached the notion of self‑duality from the meta‑perspective of switching perspectives between Directed Cyclic Graphs of NiNAND and NiNOR gates (Ni for N‑Inputs à la boolean … Continue reading →

Posted in Abstraction, Amphecks, Analogy, Animata, Boolean Algebra, Boolean Functions, C.S. Peirce, Cactus Graphs, Cybernetics, Deduction, Differential Analytic Turing Automata, Differential Logic, Duality, Form, Graph Theory, Inquiry, Inquiry Driven Systems, Laws of Form, Logic, Logical Graphs, Mathematics, Minimal Negation Operators, Model Theory, Proof Theory, Propositional Calculus, Semiotics, Sign Relational Manifolds, Sign Relations, Spencer Brown, Theorem Proving, Time, Topology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Survey of Theme One Program • 7

Posted on May 6, 2025 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of resources 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 had earlier developed … Continue reading →

Posted in Algorithms, Animata, Artificial Intelligence, Automated Research Tools, Boolean Functions, C.S. Peirce, Cactus Graphs, Constraint Satisfaction Problems, Data Structures, Differential Logic, Equational Inference, Formal Languages, Graph Theory, Inquiry Driven Systems, Laws of Form, Learning Theory, Logic, Logical Graphs, Mathematics, Minimal Negation Operators, Painted Cacti, Propositional Calculus, Propositional Equation Reasoning Systems, Spencer Brown, Visualization | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 80 Comments

Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems • 7

Posted on May 4, 2025 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of work in progress on Inquiry Driven Systems, material I plan to refine toward a more compact and systematic treatment of the subject. An inquiry driven system is a system having among its state variables some … Continue reading →

Posted in Abduction, Adaptive Systems, Analogy, Animata, Artificial Intelligence, Automated Research Tools, C.S. Peirce, Cognitive Science, Cybernetics, Deduction, Educational Systems Design, Educational Technology, Fixation of Belief, Induction, Information Theory, Inquiry, Inquiry Driven Systems, Inquiry Into Inquiry, Intelligent Systems, Interpretation, Logic, Logic of Science, Mathematics, Mental Models, Pragmatic Maxim, Semiotics, Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Visualization | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

Survey of Differential Logic • 8

Posted on May 3, 2025 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of work in progress on Differential Logic, resources under development toward a more systematic treatment. Differential logic is the component of logic whose object is the description of variation — the aspects of change, difference, distribution, … Continue reading →

Posted in Amphecks, Animata, Boolean Algebra, Boolean Functions, C.S. Peirce, Cactus Graphs, Category Theory, Change, Cybernetics, Differential Analytic Turing Automata, Differential Calculus, Differential Logic, Discrete Dynamics, Equational Inference, Frankl Conjecture, Functional Logic, Gradient Descent, Graph Theory, Hologrammautomaton, Inquiry Driven Systems, Leibniz, Logic, Logical Graphs, Mathematics, Minimal Negation Operators, Propositional Calculus, Visualization | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Survey of Animated Logical Graphs • 8

Posted on May 2, 2025 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of blog and wiki posts on Logical Graphs, encompassing several families of graph‑theoretic structures originally developed by Charles S. Peirce as graphical formal languages or visual styles of syntax amenable to interpretation for logical applications. Beginnings Logical Graphs … Continue reading →

Posted in Amphecks, Animata, Boolean Algebra, Boolean Functions, C.S. Peirce, Cactus Graphs, Computational Complexity, Constraint Satisfaction Problems, Differential Logic, Equational Inference, Graph Theory, Group Theory, Laws of Form, Logic, Logical Graphs, Mathematics, Minimal Negation Operators, Model Theory, Painted Cacti, Peirce, Proof Theory, Propositional Calculus, Propositional Equation Reasoning Systems, Spencer Brown, Theorem Proving, Visualization | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 77 Comments

Differential Propositional Calculus • 37

Posted on December 31, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Foreshadowing Transformations • Extensions and Projections of Discourse And, despite the care which she took to look behind her at every moment, she failed to see a shadow which followed her like her own shadow, which stopped when she stopped, … Continue reading →

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Differential Propositional Calculus • 36

Posted on December 30, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Transformations of Discourse It is understandable that an engineer should be completely absorbed in his speciality, instead of pouring himself out into the freedom and vastness of the world of thought, even though his machines are being sent off to … Continue reading →

Posted in Amphecks, Animata, Boolean Algebra, Boolean Functions, C.S. Peirce, Cactus Graphs, Category Theory, Change, Cybernetics, Differential Analytic Turing Automata, Differential Calculus, Differential Logic, Discrete Dynamics, Equational Inference, Functional Logic, Graph Theory, Hologrammautomaton, Indicator Functions, Inquiry Driven Systems, Leibniz, Logic, Logical Graphs, Mathematics, Minimal Negation Operators, Propositional Calculus, Time, Topology, Visualization | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments