Category Archives: C.S. Peirce

All Process, No Paradox • 1

Posted on January 13, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down. Tolkien • The Hobbit Talking about time is a waste of time.  Time … Continue reading →

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Precursors Of Category Theory • 3

Posted on January 3, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. Immanuel Kant (1785) Precursors Of Category Theory Peirce Cued by Kant’s idea on the function of concepts in … Continue reading →

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Precursors Of Category Theory • 2

Posted on December 30, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists … ☙ Marcel Proust Precursors Of Category Theory When … Continue reading →

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Precursors Of Category Theory • 1

Posted on December 20, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

A few years back I began a sketch on the Precursors of Category Theory, aiming to trace the continuities of the category concept from Aristotle, thorough Kant and Peirce, Hilbert and Ackermann, to contemporary mathematical use.  Perhaps a few will … Continue reading →

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Alpha Now, Omega Later • 7

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • Theorems From Physics? In a way, the relation between “physics space” and “information space” is one of the topics I address in my work on inquiry driven systems.  Here is a pertinent place in … Continue reading →

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Icon, Likeness, Likely Story, Likelihood, Probability : 3

Posted on December 12, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • Phyllis Chiasson A more complete excerpt and the translator’s notes are very helpful here. A probability (εικος) is not the same as a sign (σηµειον).  The former is a generally accepted premiss ;  for that which … Continue reading →

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Icon, Likeness, Likely Story, Likelihood, Probability : 2

Posted on December 11, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • Phyllis Chiasson I’m still a bit fuzzy on how Aristotle’s account relates to Peirce’s usage, though I’m pretty sure Peirce must have taken Aristotle’s usage into account, but it does seem that Aristotle drew some … Continue reading →

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Icon, Likeness, Likely Story, Likelihood, Probability : 1

Posted on December 11, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • Benjamin Udell • Michael Shapiro Here’s a likely locus classicus for “icon” in its logical sense: A probability (εικος) is not the same as a sign (σηµειον).  The former is a generally accepted premiss;  for … Continue reading →

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Alpha Now, Omega Later • 6

Posted on December 6, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Alpha Now, Omega Later • Theorems From Physics? • Isomorphism Is Where It’s At In the late 1970s a number of problems in combinatorics and graph theory that I really wanted to know the answers to had driven me … Continue reading →

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Alpha Now, Omega Later • 5

Posted on December 4, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • Isomorphism Is Where It’s At “Are there more good cases of isomorphism to study?” Just off the top of my head, a couple of examples come to mind. Sign Relations.  In computational settings, … Continue reading →

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