Category Archives: Peirce List

Relations & Their Relatives • Discussion 4

Posted on March 19, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • Howard Pattee We use this or that species of diagrams to represent a fraction of the properties, hardly ever all the properties, of the objects in an object domain.  The diagrams that Peirce developed to … Continue reading →

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Semiotic Theory Of Information • 6

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

2014 Oct 14 Through the 1970s I gradually recovered from my early traumas with Fortran, and with the aid of more symbol-friendly programming languages like Lisp and Pascal began to play around again with implementing simple forms of graphical calculi … Continue reading →

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Semiotic Theory Of Information • 5

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

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

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

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

Posted on October 12, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

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

Posted on October 11, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

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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Consequences of Triadic Relation Irreducibility • 2

Posted on September 14, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

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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Icon, Likeness, Likely Story, Likelihood, Probability : 3

Posted on December 12, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • Phyllis Chiasson A more complete excerpt and the translator’s notes are very helpful here. A probability (εικος) is not the same as a sign (σηµειον).  The former is a generally accepted premiss ;  for that which … Continue reading →

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Icon, Likeness, Likely Story, Likelihood, Probability : 2

Posted on December 11, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • Phyllis Chiasson I’m still a bit fuzzy on how Aristotle’s account relates to Peirce’s usage, though I’m pretty sure Peirce must have taken Aristotle’s usage into account, but it does seem that Aristotle drew some … Continue reading →

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Icon, Likeness, Likely Story, Likelihood, Probability : 1

Posted on December 11, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • Benjamin Udell • Michael Shapiro Here’s a likely locus classicus for “icon” in its logical sense: A probability (εικος) is not the same as a sign (σηµειον).  The former is a generally accepted premiss;  for … Continue reading →

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