Category Archives: C.S. Peirce

Objects, Models, Theories • 3

Posted on November 21, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Objects, Models, Theories • (1) • (2) Re: Peirce List • Tom Gollier Here my task is to build bridges between several different classical and contemporary uses of the word model, so I don’t have the luxury of complete … Continue reading →

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Objects, Models, Theories • 2

Posted on November 20, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: K.W. Regan • The Graph Of Math Re: Artem Kaznatcheev • Three Types Of Mathematical Models What — if anything — is the common sense that connects the different senses of the word model, as it has been used … Continue reading →

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Alpha Now, Omega Later • 1

Posted on November 16, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

I am still in the middle of trying to catch up on some long put-off work but recent discussions of logical graphs and physics and the like on the Peirce List have bestirred me from my grindstone long enough to … Continue reading →

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“What we’ve got here is (a) failure to communicate” • 6

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Excerpt from Warren S. McCulloch, “What Is a Number, that a Man May Know It, and a Man, that He May Know a Number?” (1960) Please remember that we are not now concerned with the physics and chemistry, the anatomy … Continue reading →

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“What we’ve got here is (a) failure to communicate” • 5

Posted on November 12, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Excerpt from C.S. Peirce, “Minute Logic” (1902), CP 2.144–148 2.2. Why Study Logic? 2.2.5. Reasoning and Expectation 144.   But since you propose to study logic, you have more or less faith in reasoning, as affording knowledge of the truth. Now … Continue reading →

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Peircean Semiotics and Triadic Sign Relations • 3

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Having labored mightily to bring out a new edition of my article on sign relations, including material on the pivotal concept of semiotic equivalence relations which had fallen into obscurity elsewhere, I thought it worth the candle to post a … Continue reading →

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Architectonics of Inquiry • 1

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: R.J. Lipton • Teaching Helps Research Along these lines, if somewhat tangentially, are some questions that I’ve wondered about for many years. How do research and teaching interact, and how might they act to catalyze one another in the … Continue reading →

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Differential Analytic Turing Automata • Discussion 1

Posted on October 14, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • Proving Cook’s Theorem Synchronicity Rules❢ I just started reworking an old exposition of mine on Cook’s Theorem, where I borrowed the Parity Function example from Wilf (1986), Algorithms and Complexity, and translated it … Continue reading →

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Definition and Determination • 10

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

The moment, then, that we pass from nothing and the vacuity of being to any content or sphere, we come at once to a composite content and sphere.  In fact, extension and comprehension — like space and time — are … Continue reading →

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Posted on October 1, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

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