Category Archives: Inquiry

Inquiry Driven Systems • Discussion 4

Posted on July 20, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Category Theory • Eduardo Ochs EO: Do you have links on how to teach Logical Graphs to children (and to people like me!) and how to use them as a basis for learning Propositional Calculus and quantifiers? Dear Eduardo, … Continue reading →

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Inquiry Driven Systems • Discussion 3

Posted on July 19, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Category Theory • Henry Story HS: Could one re-invent the whole curriculum from age 5 onwards built on new [category theoretic] concepts? If I were starting from scratch, and I’m always starting from scratch, I would ease my way … Continue reading →

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Inquiry Driven Systems • Discussion 2

Posted on July 18, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Category Theory • Henry Story Way back in the Summer of Love I met a girl who had just graduated in Chemistry and was thinking about grad school in Education, the hot new field of Instructional Media, we got … Continue reading →

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Inquiry Driven Systems • Discussion 1

Posted on July 15, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Topos Lab • MathFoldr Project Re: Category Theory • Valeria de Paiva Dear Brendan and Valeria, I’ve been a participant∫observer in web-ontology knowledge projects for a couple of decades and they always give far more attention to knowledge as … Continue reading →

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Differential Logic • Comment 6

Posted on July 7, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Category Theory • Jon Awbrey I opened a topic in the “logic” stream of “category theory zulipchat” to discuss differential logic in a category theoretic environment and began by linking to a few basic resources. The topic on logical … Continue reading →

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Differential Logic • Comment 5

Posted on May 14, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • John Sowa : “Modal Logic Is An Immense Swamp” Dear John, Best title I’ve read in a long time!  But the really immense swamp critter here is the Naturally Evolved Organon known as ornery natural language which … Continue reading →

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Definition and Determination • 22

Posted on May 8, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Definition and Determination • (18) • (19) • (20) • (21) Re: Laws of Form • Lyle Anderson Dear Lyle, The labyrinth of Socratic switchbacks and dialogical detours in Excerpt 21 gave several readers fits of befuddlement.  I think I … Continue reading →

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Definition and Determination • 21

Posted on May 6, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Definition and Determination • (18) • (19) • (20) Re: FB | The Ecology of Systems Thinking • Richard Saunders RS: Don’t you think some little bit of unconscious knowledge and logic comes preloaded, à priori, courtesy of our parents … Continue reading →

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Definition and Determination • 20

Posted on May 5, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Robert Marty RM: Thank you for this information.  I happen to have a work in progress (not yet written) on the question of determination.  I discovered that Peirce gave a quite remarkable definition in CP 8.361. “We … Continue reading →

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Definition and Determination • 19

Posted on May 3, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Edwina Taborsky JA: I needed to start thinking of semiotics and sign relations in the light of cybernetics and systems theory.  That required me to convert from understanding a sign relation as a relation among three … Continue reading →

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