Category Archives: Semiotics

Mathematical Method • Discussion 4

Posted on August 8, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Helmut Raulien Dear Helmut, It’s one of the occupational hazards of the classifying mind that one can start out consciously characterizing aspects of real situations and end up unwittingly thinking one’s gotten everything under the sun sorted … Continue reading →

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Mathematical Method • Discussion 3

Posted on August 7, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • John Sowa • Auke van Breemen • Jon Awbrey • Gary Fuhrman Dear Gary, Auke van Breemen wrote: AvB: It seems to come down to:  never consider the textual production of a scientist only in itself, … Continue reading →

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Mathematical Method • Discussion 2

Posted on August 5, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Auke van Breemen AvB: It seems to come down to:  never consider the textual production of a scientist only in itself, but also look at the reality the text tries to explain. Dear Auke, Exactly! We … Continue reading →

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Mathematical Method • Discussion 1

Posted on August 4, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • John Sowa Dear John, Thanks for the notice of Carolyn Eisele’s article — it’s always worth reading what she has to say.  We’ve had discussions of Peirce’s distinction between theorematic and corollarial reasoning before and I … Continue reading →

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Category Theory • Comment 1

Posted on July 14, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

I’m deep in the middle of upgrading my intro to sign relations and I am determined to stick to it this time but there will be a phase when it’s critical to bring category theory to bear on the development.  … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations • Discussion 10

Posted on July 9, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Anthesis • Definition • Signs and Inquiry • Examples Dyadic Aspects • Denotation • Connotation • Ennotation Semiotic Equivalence Relations • (1) • (2) Re: Cybernetics • Klaus Krippendorff • Bernard Scott Re: Ontolog • Mihai Nadin • John Sowa … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations • Discussion 9

Posted on July 5, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Sign Relations • Ennotation Re: Peirce List • Helmut Raulien Dear Helmut, Thanks for your comments.  They prompt me to say a little more about the mathematical character of the sign relational models I’m using. Peirce without mathematics is … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations • Semiotic Equivalence Relations 2

Posted on July 3, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

A few items of notation are useful in discussing equivalence relations in general and semiotic equivalence relations in particular. In general, if is an equivalence relation on a set then every element of belongs to a unique equivalence class under … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations • Discussion 8

Posted on July 2, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Sign Relations • Ennotation Re: Peirce List • Helmut Raulien Dear Helmut, The important thing now is to extend our perspective beyond one sign at a time and one object, sign, interpretant at a time to comprehending a sign … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations • Semiotic Equivalence Relations 1

Posted on July 1, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

A semiotic equivalence relation (SER) is a special type of equivalence relation arising in the analysis of sign relations.  Generally speaking, any equivalence relation induces a partition of the underlying set of elements, known as the domain or space of the … Continue reading →

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