Category Archives: Semiotics

Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Discussion 6

Posted on April 12, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Jon Alan Schmidt Just a note to record this citation by Jon Alan Schmidt of an important theme in Peirce.  It touches on one of those recurring questions which has come up time and again on the … Continue reading →

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Survey of Cybernetics • 1

Posted on March 18, 2020 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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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 29

Posted on March 15, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Michael DeBellis Questions about Abduction in AI and Computer Science raised in the Ontolog Forum prompted me to look up previous discussions tracing the integral relationship among information, inquiry, and the three types of inference.  Here’s … Continue reading →

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 28

Posted on March 10, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Michael DeBellis • Adrian Walker MDB: I’m currently auditing a fascinating seminar at Berkeley on Semiotics and Information Theory.  Mostly we are focusing on C.S. Peirce although we’ve also explored other theories such as Shannon’s Information Theory.  … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 22

Posted on March 9, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Systems Science • Scott Jackson Discussions of “thinking and flawed decisions” arising in the Systems Science Working Group naturally brought the topic of Pragmatic Truth and all its bedeviled vicissitudes back to this Peircean’s mind. I have often observed … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Discussion 19

Posted on January 22, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Differential Logic and Dynamic Systems Re: FB | Systems Sciences • Kenneth Lloyd An exchange on Facebook took me back to recent discussions of pragmatic truth and long-running discussions of pragmatic semiotic information.  Just by way of a note … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 21

Posted on January 6, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Cybernetic Communications • Klaus Krippendorff I appreciate the way Klaus Krippendorff immediately extracted one of the overarching themes of Peirce’s whole paper, indeed of his whole work.  That allows us to tread lightly past a lot of verbal nit-picking … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 20

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Renaissance Mathematicus • Thony Christie Re: Cybernetic Communications • Louis Kauffman Re: FB | Charles S. Peirce Society • John Corcoran Various conceptions of belief in relation to pragmatic theories of inquiry, signs, and truth have come up recently … Continue reading →

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Higher Order Sign Relations • Discussion 2

Posted on December 23, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Joseph Simpson Re: Relations, Types, Functions JA: The subject matters of relations, types, and functions enjoy a form of recursive involvement with one another which makes it difficult to know where to get on and where to … Continue reading →

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Theory and Therapy of Representations • 4

Posted on December 20, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Theory and Therapy of Representations • 3 Re: Ontolog Forum • Paola Di Maio JA: What are the forces distorting our representations of what’s observed, what’s expected, and what’s intended? PDM: The short answer is …. the force behind all … Continue reading →

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