Category Archives: Abduction

Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Discussion 7

Re: Ontolog Forum • JS JS: It appears to me that it is very difficult to fully grasp the fundamental issues associated with pragmatic semiotic information when the natural language of the individual conducting the inquiry is the main object … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Discussion 6

Re: Ontolog Forum • JS The subject of natural languages and their relation to formal languages, for example, logical calculi, logical graphs, mathematical formalisms, and programming languages, has come up periodically in our discussions and I’ve been struggling to arrive … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Discussion 5

Re: Ontolog Forum • AA Of course it’s not that simple.  I called it a cornerstone not a whole building but it gives us a starting point and a first approach to a pragmatic semiotic architecture still being built as we speak. … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Discussion 4

Re: Is Quantum Mechanics A Probabilistic Theory? • What Is Measurement? Measurement is an extension of perception.  Measurement gives us data about an object system the way perception gives us percepts, which we may consider just a species of data. … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Discussion 3

Re: Ontolog Forum • JFS What I find lacking in these static ontological hierarchies is the dynamic, functional, transformational side of scientific inquiry, the process that produces the product known as knowledge.  If sciences are bodies of organized knowledge, what … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Discussion 2

I’ve been following the discussion on the Sys Sci list that asks the question, “What Is Systems Science?”.  I haven’t found the time to join in yet but it is very interesting to me on account of the fact my … Continue reading

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Survey of Semiotic Theory Of Information • 3

This is a Survey of previous blog and wiki posts on the Semiotic Theory Of Information.  All my projects are exploratory in essence but this line of inquiry is more open-ended than most.  The question is: What is information and how … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Discussion 1

Re: Systems Science • Kenneth Lloyd Ken’s comment made me realize that the notation is probably not the best.  It tends to mislead us into thinking we already have in hand, in other words, that we already have perfect information … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Ψ

I remember it was back in ’76 when I began to notice a subtle shift of focus in the computer science journals I was reading, from discussing X to discussing Information About X, a transformation I noted mentally as whenever … Continue reading

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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Discussion 7

Re: Joselle DiNunzio Kehoe • Information and Questions of Consciousness C.S. Peirce put forth the idea that what he called “the laws of information” were key to solving “the puzzle of the validity of scientific inference” and thus to understanding … Continue reading

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