Category Archives: Realism

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 Table 1 shows the first few ordered pairs of the relation on positive … Continue reading →

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”.  Thus, … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

Re: Triadic Relations • (1) • (2) • (3) Re: Conceptual Graphs • Edwina Taborsky ET: A few comments on your outline of the Sign.  I think one has to be careful not to set up a Saussurian linguistic dyad.  … Continue reading →

Triadic Relations • Examples from Semiotics The study of signs — the full variety of significant forms of expression — in relation to all the affairs signs are significant of, and in relation to all the beings signs are significant … Continue reading →

Triadic Relations • Examples from Mathematics For the sake of topics to be taken up later, it is useful to examine a pair of triadic relations in tandem.  We will construct two triadic relations, and each of which is a … Continue reading →

Of triadic Being the multitude of forms is so terrific that I have usually shrunk from the task of enumerating them;  and for the present purpose such an enumeration would be worse than superfluous:  it would be a great inconvenience. … Continue reading →

Relation Theory • Species of Dyadic Relations Returning to 2‑adic relations, it is useful to describe several familiar classes of objects in terms of their local and numerical incidence properties.  Let be an arbitrary 2‑adic relation.  The following properties of … Continue reading →

Relation Theory Two further classes of incidence properties will prove to be of great utility. Regional Incidence Properties The definition of a local flag can be broadened from a point to a subset of a relational domain, arriving at the … Continue reading →