Category Archives: Logic

Survey of Relation Theory • 3

Posted on January 17, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

In this Survey of blog and wiki posts on Relation Theory, relations are viewed from the perspective of combinatorics, in other words, as a topic in discrete mathematics, with special attention to finite structures and concrete set-theoretic constructions, many of … Continue reading →

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Theory and Therapy of Representations • 2

Posted on December 19, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

December 19, 2011 In a complex society, people making decisions and taking actions at places remote from you have the power to affect your life in significant ways.  Those people govern your life, they are your government, no matter what … Continue reading →

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Time, Topology, Differential Logic • 6

Posted on November 30, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Edwina Taborsky • John Sowa • Jon Awbrey • Jeff Downard Let me see if I can get back in the saddle on this topic, the dormitive virtues of tryptophan and a few pounds added notwithstanding. … Continue reading →

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Time, Topology, Differential Logic • 5

Posted on November 19, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

And the founder, having shod a plough with a brazen ploughshare, and having yoked to it a bull and a cow, himself drove a deep furrow round the boundary lines, while those who followed after him had to turn the … Continue reading →

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Time, Topology, Differential Logic • 4

Posted on November 15, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • JFS • JA JA: Trying to understand inquiry and semiosis in general as temporal processes is one of the things that forced me to develop differential logic as an extension of propositional logic, for which … Continue reading →

Posted in C.S. Peirce, Change, Differential Logic, Dynamical Systems, Inquiry, Inquiry Driven Systems, Logic, Logical Graphs, Mathematics, Peirce, Propositional Calculus, Semiotics, Systems Theory, Time, Topology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 9 Comments

Time, Topology, Differential Logic • 3

Posted on November 14, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • JA Worldly events are interfering with my concentration quite a bit this week, perhaps for days to come, but it does help to immerse myself in work.  I am starting a blog series to follow … Continue reading →

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Time, Topology, Differential Logic • 2

Posted on November 13, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • JBD • JA • JA Topology is the most general study of geometric space.  It is critical here to get beyond the “popular” accounts and learn the basics from a real math book.  A classic … Continue reading →

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Time, Topology, Differential Logic • 1

Posted on November 11, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

The clock indicates the moment . . . . but what does eternity indicate? Walt Whitman • Leaves of Grass Re: Peirce List • ET • JFS • JA Trying to understand inquiry in particular and semiosis in general as … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Maxims • 4

Posted on November 8, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • (1) • (2) I haven’t been able to do more than randomly sample the doings on the Peirce List for the last half year, being deeply immersed in other Peirce work that I hope to report … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Maxims • 3

Posted on November 5, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Jerry Rhee Inquiry begins in doubt and aims for belief but the rush to get from doubt to belief and achieve mental peace can cause us to short the integrated circuits of inquiry that we need … Continue reading →

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