Category Archives: Information

Pragmatic Semiotic Information • 5

Uncertainty Measured As a matter of fact, at least in the discrete types of cases we are currently considering, it would be possible to use the degree of a node, the number of paths fanning out from it, as a measure … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • 4

Sense and Obliviscence In taking up a study of signs from a pragmatic point of view we naturally follow the advice of the pragmatic maxim on a way to make the relationship between our concepts and their objects as clear … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • 3

Where is information bred?  In reality or in its stead? The way signs enter the scene is shown in Figure 2. The Figure illustrates a scene of uncertainty which has been augmented by a classification. In the pattern of classification shown … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • 2

What is information that a sign may bear it? Three more questions arise at this juncture. How is a sign empowered to contain information? What is the practical context of communication? Why do we care about these bits of information? … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • 1

Information • What’s it good for? The good of information is its use in reducing our uncertainty about an issue which comes before us.  But uncertainty comes in many flavors and so the information which serves to reduce uncertainty can … Continue reading

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Survey of Pragmatic Semiotic Information • 8

This is a Survey of blog and wiki posts on a theory of information which grows out of pragmatic semiotic ideas.  All my projects are exploratory in character but this line of inquiry is more open‑ended than most.  The question … Continue reading

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Survey of Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 4

This is a Survey of blog and wiki posts on three elementary forms of inference, as recognized by a logical tradition extending from Aristotle through Charles S. Peirce.  Particular attention is paid to the way the inferential rudiments combine to … Continue reading

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Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory • Discussion 12

Re: Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory • 1 A note from a longtime correspondent points out a search of the available texts turns up no use of the plural form “semiotics” by Peirce and just one place where he … Continue reading

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Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory • 4

For ease of reference, here are two variants of Peirce’s 1902 definition of a sign, which he gives in the process of defining logic. Selections from C.S. Peirce, “Carnegie Application” (1902) No. 12.  On the Definition of Logic Logic will … Continue reading

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Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory • 3

The middle ground between relations in general and the sign relations informing logic, inquiry, and communication is occupied by triadic relations, also called ternary or 3‑place relations. Triadic relations are some of the most pervasive in mathematics, over and above … Continue reading

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