Category Archives: Semiotics

Survey of Relation Theory • 3

Posted on January 17, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

In this Survey of blog and wiki posts on Relation Theory, relations are viewed from the perspective of combinatorics, in other words, as a topic in discrete mathematics, with special attention to finite structures and concrete set-theoretic constructions, many of … Continue reading →

Posted in Algebra, Algebra of Logic, C.S. Peirce, Category Theory, Combinatorics, Discrete Mathematics, Duality, Dyadic Relations, Foundations of Mathematics, Graph Theory, Logic, Logic of Relatives, Mathematics, Peirce, Relation Theory, Semiotics, Set Theory, Sign Relational Manifolds, Sign Relations, Surveys, Triadic Relations, Triadicity, Type Theory | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Peirce and Democracy • 2

Posted on December 30, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Gary Richmond • Helmut Raulien • John Sowa • Jon Awbrey The essential reading for understanding the unbridled avarice of capitalism — how the Gospel Of Greed takes root in the hearts of those who set … Continue reading →

Posted in C.S. Peirce, Cybernetics, Democracy, Economics, Education, Expectation, Governance, Information, Inquiry, Intention, Max Weber, Observation, Peirce, Peirce List, Plato, Representation, Science, Semiotics, Society, Statistics | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Theory and Therapy of Representations • 2

Posted on December 19, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

December 19, 2011 In a complex society, people making decisions and taking actions at places remote from you have the power to affect your life in significant ways.  Those people govern your life, they are your government, no matter what … Continue reading →

Posted in Cybernetics, Democracy, Economics, Education, Expectation, Governance, Information, Inquiry, Intention, Justice, Law, Logic, Observation, Plato, Representation, Science, Semiosis, Semiotics, Society, Statistics, Virtue | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Time, Topology, Differential Logic • 6

Posted on November 30, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Edwina Taborsky • John Sowa • Jon Awbrey • Jeff Downard Let me see if I can get back in the saddle on this topic, the dormitive virtues of tryptophan and a few pounds added notwithstanding. … Continue reading →

Posted in C.S. Peirce, Change, Differential Logic, Dynamical Systems, Inquiry, Inquiry Driven Systems, Logic, Logical Graphs, Mathematics, Peirce, Propositional Calculus, Semiotics, Systems Theory, Time, Topology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Peirce and Democracy • 1

Posted on November 23, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Gary Richmond • Jon Awbrey In my mind the connection between Peirce and Democracy has long revolved around the concept of representation. Representation in its semiotic sense has to do with signs that represent pragmatic objects … Continue reading →

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Time, Topology, Differential Logic • 5

Posted on November 19, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

And the founder, having shod a plough with a brazen ploughshare, and having yoked to it a bull and a cow, himself drove a deep furrow round the boundary lines, while those who followed after him had to turn the … Continue reading →

Posted in C.S. Peirce, Change, Differential Logic, Dynamical Systems, Inquiry, Inquiry Driven Systems, Logic, Logical Graphs, Mathematics, Peirce, Propositional Calculus, Semiotics, Systems Theory, Time, Topology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 10 Comments

Time, Topology, Differential Logic • 4

Posted on November 15, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • JFS • JA JA: Trying to understand inquiry and semiosis in general as temporal processes is one of the things that forced me to develop differential logic as an extension of propositional logic, for which … Continue reading →

Posted in C.S. Peirce, Change, Differential Logic, Dynamical Systems, Inquiry, Inquiry Driven Systems, Logic, Logical Graphs, Mathematics, Peirce, Propositional Calculus, Semiotics, Systems Theory, Time, Topology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 9 Comments

Time, Topology, Differential Logic • 3

Posted on November 14, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • JA Worldly events are interfering with my concentration quite a bit this week, perhaps for days to come, but it does help to immerse myself in work.  I am starting a blog series to follow … Continue reading →

Posted in C.S. Peirce, Change, Differential Logic, Dynamical Systems, Inquiry, Inquiry Driven Systems, Logic, Logical Graphs, Mathematics, Peirce, Propositional Calculus, Semiotics, Systems Theory, Time, Topology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 9 Comments

Time, Topology, Differential Logic • 2

Posted on November 13, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • JBD • JA • JA Topology is the most general study of geometric space.  It is critical here to get beyond the “popular” accounts and learn the basics from a real math book.  A classic … Continue reading →

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Time, Topology, Differential Logic • 1

Posted on November 11, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

The clock indicates the moment . . . . but what does eternity indicate? Walt Whitman • Leaves of Grass Re: Peirce List • ET • JFS • JA Trying to understand inquiry in particular and semiosis in general as … Continue reading →

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