Category Archives: Model Theory

Problems In Philosophy • 3

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: R.D. Mounce Making reality our friend is necessary to survival and finding good descriptions of reality is the better part of doing that, so I don’t imagine we have any less interest in truth than the Ancients.  From what … Continue reading →

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Problems In Philosophy • 2

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • You Think We Have Problems Classical tradition views logic as a normative science, one whose object is truth.  This puts logic on a par with ethics, whose object is justice or morality in … Continue reading →

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Animated Logical Graphs • 9

Posted on May 24, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ken Regan • The Shapes of Computations The insight it takes to find a succinct axiom set for a theoretical domain falls under the heading of abductive or retroductive reasoning, a knack as yet refractory to computational attack, but … Continue reading →

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Animated Logical Graphs • 8

Posted on May 23, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ken Regan • The Shapes of Computations The most striking example of a “Primitive Insight Proof” (PIP❢) known to me is the Dawes–Utting proof of the Double Negation Theorem from the CSP–GSB axioms for propositional logic.  There is a … Continue reading →

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Animated Logical Graphs • 7

Posted on May 22, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ken Regan • The Shapes of Computations There are several issues of computation shape and proof style that raise their heads already at the logical ground level of boolean functions and propositional calculus.  From what I’ve seen, there are … Continue reading →

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Animated Logical Graphs • 6

Posted on March 13, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • Jim Willgoose At root we are dealing with a genre of very abstract formal systems.  They have grammars that determine their well-formed expressions and rules that determine the permissible transformations among expressions, but they lack … Continue reading →

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Animated Logical Graphs • 5

Posted on January 28, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • HP A computational problem is defined as a set of problem instances with specified properties.  An algorithm solves a problem if it computes the correct answer to every problem instance in that set. The use … Continue reading →

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Animated Logical Graphs • 4

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Helmut Raulien It’s fair to say most of my university coursework leaned to the theoretical side but I did cobble together a respectable enough background in computing, statistics, and industrial-organizational styles of systems and simulation that … Continue reading →

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Animated Logical Graphs • 3

Posted on January 26, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Helmut Raulien I have a little more leisure now to start climbing back into the saddle, so let me see where we left off … Try looking into the article I linked before: Logical Graphs Or … Continue reading →

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Animated Logical Graphs • 2

Posted on January 14, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Jim Willgoose It’s almost 50 years now since I first encountered the volumes of Peirce’s Collected Papers in the math library at Michigan State, and shortly afterwards a friend called my attention to the entry for … Continue reading →

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