Category Archives: Semiotics

C.S. Peirce and Category Theory • 4

Posted on June 28, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: C.S. Peirce and Category Theory • 3 Re: Category Theory • Kyle Rivelli Dear Kyle, My Inquiry Into Inquiry blog has a Survey page where I collect blog and wiki resources on all the longer-running topics I write and … Continue reading →

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C.S. Peirce and Category Theory • 3

Posted on June 27, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Category Theory • Kyle Rivelli KR: I really enjoyed the Diagrammatic Immanence book. Gangle has another book that goes into more depth with Peirce: Gianluca Caterina and Rocco Gangle (2016), Iconicity and Abduction. Thanks, Kyle, I’ve been looking at … Continue reading →

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C.S. Peirce and Category Theory • 2

Posted on June 24, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Category Theory • Henry Story HS: This book Diagrammatic Immanence [preview] has a whole chapter on Peirce and Category Theory. There’s a two‑culture tension in the reception of Peirce these days.  Maybe it’s always been that way but it … Continue reading →

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C.S. Peirce and Category Theory • 1

Posted on June 23, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Cf: Category Theory • Jon Awbrey I will use this space to post what comes to mind by way of Peirce and Category Theory. Just to get the ball rolling (in good Sisyphean style) here’s my blog of mostly Peirce-related … Continue reading →

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De In Esse Predication • Preliminaries

Posted on May 23, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Questions have arisen in several places about classical logic and its vicissitudes, what used to be called “deviant logics” in some circles, all of which I recall being hot topics and much-mooted questions when I was a young wffer-snapper and Novice … Continue reading →

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Definition and Determination • 22

Posted on May 8, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Definition and Determination • (18) • (19) • (20) • (21) Re: Laws of Form • Lyle Anderson Dear Lyle, The labyrinth of Socratic switchbacks and dialogical detours in Excerpt 21 gave several readers fits of befuddlement.  I think I … Continue reading →

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Definition and Determination • 21

Posted on May 6, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Definition and Determination • (18) • (19) • (20) Re: FB | The Ecology of Systems Thinking • Richard Saunders RS: Don’t you think some little bit of unconscious knowledge and logic comes preloaded, à priori, courtesy of our parents … Continue reading →

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Definition and Determination • 20

Posted on May 5, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Robert Marty RM: Thank you for this information.  I happen to have a work in progress (not yet written) on the question of determination.  I discovered that Peirce gave a quite remarkable definition in CP 8.361. “We … Continue reading →

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Definition and Determination • 19

Posted on May 3, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Edwina Taborsky JA: I needed to start thinking of semiotics and sign relations in the light of cybernetics and systems theory.  That required me to convert from understanding a sign relation as a relation among three … Continue reading →

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Definition and Determination • 18

Posted on May 2, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Various discussions in sundry places led me by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to the environs of old notes I gathered on the topics of Definition and Determination, that being on the occasion of a return to graduate school … Continue reading →

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