Category Archives: Pragmatism

Relations & Their Relatives • 3

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Here are two ways of looking at the divisibility relation, a dyadic relation of fundamental importance in number theory. Table 1 shows the first few ordered pairs of the relation on positive integers corresponding to the relative term, “divisor of”.  … Continue reading →

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Relations & Their Relatives • 2

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

What is the relationship between “logical relatives” and “mathematical relations”?  The word relative used as a noun in logic is short for relative term — as such it refers to an item of language used to denote a formal object. … Continue reading →

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Relations & Their Relatives • 1

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Sign relations are special cases of triadic relations in much the same way binary operations in mathematics are special cases of triadic relations.  It amounts to a minor complication that we participate in sign relations whenever we talk or think … Continue reading →

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Six Ways of Looking at a Triadic Relation ⌬ 1

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

A triadic relation and its converses form a set of triadic relations all together, six grammatically and rhetorically distinct ways of representing what is logically the same information.  Peirce illustrates the situation as follows, with six variations on the theme … 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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Pragmatism About Theoretical Entities • 1

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

By theoretical entities I mean things like classes, properties, qualities, sets, situations, or states of affairs, in general, the putative denotations of theoretical concepts, formulas, sentences, terms, or treatises, in brief, the ostensible objects of signs. A conventional statement of … 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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