Category Archives: Semiosis

Survey of Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • 6

Posted on May 6, 2025 by Jon Awbrey

C.S. Peirce defines logic as “formal semiotic”, using formal to highlight the place of logic as a normative science, over and above the descriptive study of signs and their role in wider fields of play.  Understanding logic as Peirce understands … Continue reading →

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Survey of Pragmatic Semiotic Information • 9

Posted on May 4, 2025 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of blog and wiki posts on a theory of information which grows out of pragmatic semiotic ideas.  All my projects are exploratory in character but this line of inquiry is more open‑ended than most.  The question … Continue reading →

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Survey of Cybernetics • 5

Posted on May 2, 2025 by Jon Awbrey

Again, in a ship, if a man were at liberty to do what he chose, but were devoid of mind and excellence in navigation (αρετης κυβερνητικης), do you perceive what must happen to him and his fellow sailors? — Plato … Continue reading →

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Relations & Their Relatives • Discussion 25

Posted on July 30, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Daniel Everett • Polyunsaturated Predicates Re: Relations & Their Relatives • Discussion 24 Dear Daniel, I’ve been meaning to get back to this as it keeps coming up and it’s kind of important but it took me a while … Continue reading →

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Relations & Their Relatives • Discussion 24

Posted on July 28, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Daniel Everett • Polyunsaturated Predicates DE: Among the several ideas Peirce and Frege came up with was the idea of a predicate before and after it is linked to its arguments.  Frege called the unlinked predicate unsaturated.  But Peirce … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Comment 3

Posted on March 22, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Memories are coming back to me more through the association of ideas than ordered by time or place.  I can sense, almost touch a tangle of thoughts interlaced with each other — the “information first” approach to ontology, the “arrows … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Comment 2

Posted on March 20, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

I was at the time working as a “scanner” in the High Energy Physics Lab at Michigan State, sitting in a darkened room measuring tracks of particle interactions projected on a lighted scanning table from reels and reels of bubble … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Comment 1

Posted on March 18, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

I remember it was back in ’76 when I began to notice a subtle shift of focus in the computer science journals I was reading, from discussing X to discussing Information About X, a transformation I noted mentally as whenever … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • 9

Posted on March 16, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Information Recapped Reflection on the inverse relation between uncertainty and information led us to define the information capacity of a communication channel as the average uncertainty reduction on receiving a sign, taking the acronym auroras as a reminder of the … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • 8

Posted on March 12, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Information Channeled Suppose we find ourselves in the classification‑augmented or sign‑enhanced situation of uncertainty shown in Figure 5.  What difference does it make to our state of information regarding the objective outcome if we heed one or the other of the … Continue reading →

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