Category Archives: Logic of Relatives

“What we’ve got here is (a) failure to communicate” • 6

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Excerpt from Warren S. McCulloch, “What Is a Number, that a Man May Know It, and a Man, that He May Know a Number?” (1960) Please remember that we are not now concerned with the physics and chemistry, the anatomy … Continue reading →

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Peircean Semiotics and Triadic Sign Relations • 3

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Having labored mightily to bring out a new edition of my article on sign relations, including material on the pivotal concept of semiotic equivalence relations which had fallen into obscurity elsewhere, I thought it worth the candle to post a … Continue reading →

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⚠ It’s A Trap ⚠

Posted on May 18, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Kenneth W. Regan • Graduate Student Traps The most common mathematical trap I run across has to do with Triadic Relation Irreducibility, as noted and treated by the polymath C.S. Peirce. This trap lies in the mistaken belief that every … Continue reading →

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Triadic Relation Irreducibility • 3

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

References Relation Theory OEIS Wiki • PlanetMath Triadic Relations OEIS Wiki • PlanetMath Sign Relations OEIS Wiki • PlanetMath Relation Composition OEIS Wiki • PlanetMath Relation Construction OEIS Wiki • PlanetMath Relation Reduction OEIS Wiki • PlanetMath Related Readings Notes … Continue reading →

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Triadic Relation Irreducibility • 2

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Matt Faunce • Jon Awbrey • Jon Awbrey Though my present object has more to do with the logical and mathematical aspects of triadic relations than it does with their psychological embodiments, the following exchange on … Continue reading →

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Triadic Relation Irreducibility • 1

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

The core insight of Peirce’s conceptual system is the recognition that triadic relations are sui generis, constituting a class by themselves.  Understanding the properties of triadic relations and the consequences of their irreducibility is critical to understanding Peirce’s thought and work.  … Continue reading →

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Triadic Relations, Intentions, Fuzzy Subsets • Discussion 3

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • Gary Moore • Stefan Berwing I intend to get back to this subject as soon as possible but the dire political situation in my home state is once again eating up a lot of my … Continue reading →

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Triadic Relations, Intentions, Fuzzy Subsets • Discussion 2

Posted on December 8, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • Stefan Berwing Let us put fuzzy sets to one side for the moment and take up the matter of belief you raised, as I believe that connection is very apt. As it happens, there was … Continue reading →

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Triadic Relations, Intentions, Fuzzy Subsets : 3

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

There is at present an extensive literature on fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic.  I got another brush with the world of fuzzy in the 1990s when I returned to grad school in a systems engineering program, partly because my adviser … Continue reading →

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Triadic Relations, Intentions, Fuzzy Subsets : 2

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

We imagine all the things we might want to talk about in a given discussion as collected together in a set X called a universe of discourse.  (In probabilistic or statistical work it might be called a sample space.) By … Continue reading →

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