Category Archives: Logic of Relatives

Semiotic Theory Of Information • 5

2014 Oct 09 I will continue assembling an assortment of background materials and links to other resources that I think are useful in understanding Peirce’s notion of information and how it has the potential to extend and generalize both our … Continue reading

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Semiotic Theory Of Information • 4

2014 Oct 08 “Let us now return to the information.”  To coin a phrase.  This time around we come to Peirce’s notion of information in a critical and recurring passage that Frederik Stjernfelt takes as the next stepping stone from … Continue reading

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Semiotic Theory Of Information • 3

2014 Oct 08 Re: Resources On Peircean Information Theory • (1) • (2) In trying to remember why I started this thread, I traced it back to the point when various notions of information came up in Chapter 3.3 of … Continue reading

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Semiotic Theory Of Information • 2

2014 Oct 06 Some portions of a paper Susan Awbrey and I presented at a Society for Applied Learning Technology conference in 1990 may be relevant at this juncture. Exploring Research Data Interactively • Theme One • A Program of … Continue reading

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Semiotic Theory Of Information • 1

2014 Oct 06 On the subject of Peirce’s laws of information — or the semiotic theory of information — here are a few links that come to mind for possible future reference: Semiotic Information Information = Comprehension × Extension And … Continue reading

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Consequences of Triadic Relation Irreducibility • 2

From time to time I come to the realization that there are ways of reading Peirce that make no sense to me.  When I stop to think about the potential sources of that evident divergence from common sense, the first … Continue reading

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Consequences of Triadic Relation Irreducibility • 1

2014 Sep 10 I will have to be out of the loop for some days, but this post will give me a peg on which I can hang a few thoughts via mobile device that have been tugging at the … Continue reading

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Peirce’s 1870 “Logic of Relatives” • Intermezzo

Peirce’s 1870 “Logic of Relatives” Update • 10 April 2022 This brings me to the end of the notes on Peirce’s 1870 Logic of Relatives I began posting to the web in various discussion groups a dozen (now a score) … Continue reading

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Peirce’s 1870 “Logic of Relatives” • Comment 12.5

Peirce’s 1870 “Logic of Relatives” • Comment 12.5 The equation can be verified by establishing the corresponding equation in matrices. If and are two 1-dimensional matrices over the same index set then if and only if for every   Thus, a routine way … Continue reading

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Peirce’s 1870 “Logic of Relatives” • Comment 12.4

Peirce’s 1870 “Logic of Relatives” • Comment 12.4 Peirce next considers a pair of compound involutions, stating an equation between them analogous to a law of exponents from ordinary arithmetic, namely,  Then will denote whatever stands to every woman in … Continue reading

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