Category Archives: Pragmatism

Zeroth Law Of Semiotics • Comment 5

Posted on August 7, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List It may be a day or two before I can get back to the zeroth law of semiotics and how grasping it cures a strain of ills that language and some fashions of logic are heir to, … Continue reading →

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Zeroth Law Of Semiotics • Comment 4

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Sungchul Ji General terms are terms like man, woman, child, etc., each of which applies to many individuals, in other words, has a general denotation or a plural extension.  Generally speaking, a general term is treated … Continue reading →

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Inquiry, Signs, Relations • 1

Posted on July 5, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Michael Harris • A Non-Logical Cognitive Phenomenon Human spontaneous non-demonstrative inference is not, overall, a logical process.  Hypothesis formation involves the use of deductive rules, but is not totally governed by them;  hypothesis confirmation is a non-logical cognitive phenomenon:  … Continue reading →

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Signs Of Signs • 4

Posted on May 31, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Michael Harris • Language About Language But then inevitably I find myself wondering whether a proof assistant, or even a formal system, can make the distinction between “technical” and “fundamental” questions.  There seems to be no logical distinction.  The … Continue reading →

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Signs Of Signs • 3

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Michael Harris • Language About Language And if we don’t [keep our stories straight], who puts us away? One’s answer, or at least one’s initial response to that question will turn on how one feels about formal realities.  As … Continue reading →

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Signs Of Signs • 2

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Michael Harris • Language About Language I compared mathematics to a “consensual hallucination,” like virtual reality, and I continue to believe that the aim is to get (consensually) to the point where that hallucination is a second nature. I … Continue reading →

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Signs Of Signs • 1

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Michael Harris • Language About Language There is a language and a corresponding literature treating logic and mathematics as related species of communication and information gathering, namely, the pragmatic‑semiotic tradition transmitted through the lifelong efforts of C.S. Peirce.  It is … Continue reading →

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Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems • 1

Posted on May 14, 2015 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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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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Relations & Their Relatives • Discussion 1

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Helmut Raulien The divisor of relation signified by is a dyadic relation on the set of positive integers and thus may be understood as a subset of the cartesian product   It is an example of … Continue reading →

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