Category Archives: Inquiry Driven Systems

Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory • Discussion 8

Posted on April 8, 2022 by Jon Awbrey

Re: FB | Dan Everett • On the Origin of Symbols and the Descent of Signs Continuing a discussion on the primal character of symbols. There are a few passages from Peirce going most quickly to the root of the … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory • Discussion 7

Posted on April 5, 2022 by Jon Awbrey

Re: FB | Dan Everett • On the Origin of Symbols and the Descent of Signs A conversation with Dan Everett on Facebook led me to explain the following point about symbols a little better, or at least in fewer … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory • Discussion 6

Posted on March 1, 2022 by Jon Awbrey

Re: FB | Charles S. Peirce Society • Alain Létourneau Alain Létourneau asks if I have any thoughts on Peirce’s Rhetoric.  I venture the following. Classically speaking, rhetoric (as distinguished from dialectic) treats forms of argument which “consider the audience” … Continue reading →

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Charles Sanders Peirce, George Spencer Brown, and Me • 16

Posted on January 15, 2022 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Conceptual Graphs • Gary Zhu GZ: I’m quite confused on why people are interested in Laws of Form. What is LOF trying to do? Is it just rewriting logic or is there something more fundamental. e.g. a universal algebraic … Continue reading →

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Differential Logic, Dynamic Systems, Tangent Functors • Comment 2

Posted on November 6, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Differential Logic, Dynamic Systems, Tangent Functors • 1 Seeing as how quasi-neural models and the recurring issues of symbolic vs. connectionist paradigms have come round again, I thought I might revisit work I began initially in that context, investigating … Continue reading →

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Theme One Program • Discussion 6

Posted on October 19, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Jerry Chandler JC: This post [Theme One Program • Motivation 1] is so muddled that I gave up on a meaningful scientific interpretation of it. Dear Jerry, Thanks for the response. I heartily agree with the … Continue reading →

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Theme One Program • Discussion 5

Posted on October 15, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

I’ve been going back and looking again at the problems and questions which nudged me into the computational sphere as a way of building our human capacities for inquiry, learning, and reasoning. One critical issue, you might even say bifurcation … Continue reading →

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Conceptual Barriers • 4

Posted on October 12, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Conceptual Barriers • (1) • (2) • (3) Re: Peirce List • John Sowa • Gary Richmond • Robert Marty Dear Robert, I believe you have pointed to the crux of the matter. When I arrived on the campus … Continue reading →

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Differential Logic • Discussion 15

Posted on September 18, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Differential Logic • Comment 7 Re: Laws of Form • Lyle Anderson LA: Differentials and partial differentials over the real numbers work because one can pick two real numbers that are arbitrarily close to one another.  The difference between … Continue reading →

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Differential Logic • Comment 7

Posted on September 17, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: John Baez • Cyclic Identity for Partial Derivatives • Maxwell’s Relations (1) (2) (3) Much fun can be had by trying to do differentials and partial differentials over the boolean domain instead of the reals I took a first whack … Continue reading →

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