Category Archives: Philosophy

Relations & Their Relatives • 4

Posted on August 15, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

From Dyadic to Triadic to Sign Relations Peirce’s notation for elementary relatives was illustrated earlier by a dyadic relation from number theory, namely, the relation written for Cf: Relations & Their Relatives • 3 Table 1 shows the first few … Continue reading →

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Relations & Their Relatives • Comment 3

Posted on August 6, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Here’s a couple of selections from Peirce’s 1870 Logic of Relatives bearing on the proper use of individuals in mathematics, and thus on the choice between nominal thinking and real thinking. 😸 Mathematical Demonstration & the Doctrine of Individuals • … Continue reading →

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Relations & Their Relatives • Comment 2

Posted on August 5, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Before I forget how I got myself into this particular briar patch — I mean the immediate occasion, not the long ago straying from the beaten path — it was largely in discussions with Henry Story where he speaks of … Continue reading →

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Relations & Their Relatives • Comment 1

Posted on August 2, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

I opened a topic on Relation Theory in the Logic stream of Category Theory Zulipchat to discuss the logic of relative terms and the mathematics of relations as they develop from Peirce’s first breakthroughs (1865–1870). As I have mentioned on … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Discussion 21

Posted on February 8, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: FB | Medieval Logic • Kollbjorn Oldtheyn • Edward Buckner On the question of which later developments in logic Peirce anticipated, I’ve been more focused on the points where he saw through to features we would not see again … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory • Discussion 5

Posted on January 16, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Cybernetics • Cliff Joslyn Re: Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory • Discussion (3) (4) Dear Cliff, I’m still collecting my wits from the mind-numbing events of the past two weeks so I’ll copy your last remarks here and … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory • Discussion 4

Posted on December 31, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Previous Post Re: Cybernetics • Cliff Joslyn Dear Cliff, Many thanks for your thoughtful reply.  I copied a transcript to my blog to take up first thing next year.  Here’s hoping we all have a better one! Regards, Jon CJ: … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory • Discussion 3

Posted on December 29, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Helmut Raulien HR: As Peircean semiotics is a three-valued logic, I think it bears relevance for the discussion about multiple-valued logic. Dear Helmut, The distinction between “k-adic” (involving a span of k dimensions) and “k-tomic” (involving … Continue reading →

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Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems • 3

Posted on December 27, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of blog and wiki posts on Inquiry Driven Systems, material I plan to refine toward a more compact and systematic treatment of the subject. An inquiry driven system is a system having among its state variables … Continue reading →

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Survey of Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 2

Posted on December 16, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of blog and wiki posts on three elementary forms of inference, as recognized by a logical tradition extending from Aristotle through Charles S. Peirce.  Particular attention is paid to the way these inferential rudiments combine to … Continue reading →

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