Category Archives: Icon Index Symbol

{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Comment 7

Posted on October 3, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

One of the most tantalizing puzzles in Peirce’s work is the relation between his theory of inquiry and his theory of signs.  From the outset I found it useful to return to his early ventures where the two theories work … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Discussion 3

Posted on September 4, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • JFS What I find lacking in these static ontological hierarchies is the dynamic, functional, transformational side of scientific inquiry, the process that produces the product known as knowledge.  If sciences are bodies of organized knowledge, what … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Discussion 2

Posted on September 2, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

I’ve been following the discussion on the Sys Sci list that asks the question, “What Is Systems Science?”.  I haven’t found the time to join in yet but it is very interesting to me on account of the fact my … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Discussion 1

Posted on August 22, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Systems Science • Kenneth Lloyd Ken’s comment made me realize that the notation is probably not the best.  It tends to mislead us into thinking we already have in hand, in other words, that we already have perfect information … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Ψ

Posted on August 21, 2018 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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Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relations • 10

Posted on August 15, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Ravi Sharma The words predicate, proposition, relation, and so on are affected by many variations in usage.  Some of their uses are associated with philosophical habits unlikely to change any time soon.  But there are a … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relations • 9

Posted on August 14, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Ronald Stamper Concrete examples are very instructive in this arena, and when it comes to refutations a single counter-example serves to puncture many a fallacious general proposition. Here’s a couple of articles, illustrated with concrete examples of … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relations • 8

Posted on July 6, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Ferenc Kovacs Our thoughts live in natural and artificial languages the way fish swim in natural and artificial bodies of water. One of the lessons most strikingly impressed on me by my first‑year physics course and … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relations • 7

Posted on June 29, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Joseph Simpson JS: A binary relation is a set of ordered pairs of the elements of some other set. That is the first definition I learned for binary relations. Slightly more generally, a binary relation is … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relations • 6

Posted on June 23, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Joseph Simpson Just by way of clarifying and emphasizing a few points — I use the word relation to mean a special type of mathematical object, namely, a designated subset included within a cartesian product of sets. … Continue reading →

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