Category Archives: Quantum Mechanics

Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Discussion 11

Posted on December 2, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Ferenc Kovacs Re: Anja-Karina Pahl • Contradiction and Analogy as the Basis for Inventive Thinking One of the insights coming out of Peirce’s logical work is the fact that negative operations are more powerful than positive … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Discussion 10

Posted on November 20, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum Artem Kaznatcheev posted an interesting discussion on his blog under the title “Models as Maps and Maps as Interfaces” that I saw as fitting under this head.  A reader of Peirce may recognize critical insights of pragmatic thought … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Discussion 9

Posted on October 4, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • JS I’ll be experiencing intermittent interruptions from now until the moving vans come and probably a while after but I’m hoping things will settle down by Thanksgiving. For the moment I’ll simply post a few links … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Discussion 8

Posted on September 17, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • JS The concept of a triadic sign relation, in typical form where is the object domain (think universe of discourse) and and are domains of signs (think channels or languages) being used to talk and think … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Discussion 7

Posted on September 14, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • JS JS: It appears to me that it is very difficult to fully grasp the fundamental issues associated with pragmatic semiotic information when the natural language of the individual conducting the inquiry is the main object … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Discussion 6

Posted on September 12, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • JS The subject of natural languages and their relation to formal languages, for example, logical calculi, logical graphs, mathematical formalisms, and programming languages, has come up periodically in our discussions and I’ve been struggling to arrive … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Discussion 5

Posted on September 10, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • AA Of course it’s not that simple.  I called it a cornerstone not a whole building but it gives us a starting point and a first approach to a pragmatic semiotic architecture still being built as we speak. … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Discussion 4

Posted on September 8, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Is Quantum Mechanics A Probabilistic Theory? • What Is Measurement? Measurement is an extension of perception.  Measurement gives us data about an object system the way perception gives us percepts, which we may consider just a species of data. … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 17

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • JA • GF • JFS • JLRC • JA • JFS • GF A rather amusing, if slightly ominous illustration of the point I am trying to make here has just popped up in the … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 16

Posted on June 25, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • JA • JFS JFS: For those of us who are trying to convince modern students to study Peirce, we need to become bilingual.  We need to show how his terminology and notations map to and … Continue reading →

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