Category Archives: Semiotics

Survey of Relation Theory • 2

Posted on November 30, 2015 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 , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Peirce’s Categories • 3

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Recent travels and other travails (dental work) have scattered my thoughts to the four winds, so let me just document a few bits from my current state of mind in case I can get back to it … Continue reading →

Posted in Abstraction, Analogy, C.S. Peirce, Category Theory, Logic, Logic of Relatives, Mathematics, Peirce's Categories, Phenomenology, Philosophy, Pragmatism, Relation Theory, Semiotics, Triadic Relations, Triadicity, Type Theory | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 11 Comments

Peirce’s Categories • 2

Posted on October 31, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Jeffrey Brian Downard • Gary Richmond • John Collier According to Peirce, it is logic that draws on both mathematics and phenomenology. At any rate, Peirce takes the distinctive position that normative science, which includes logic, … Continue reading →

Posted in Abstraction, C.S. Peirce, Category Theory, Dimensionality, Logic, Logic of Relatives, Mathematics, Peirce, Peirce's Categories, Phenomenology, Pragmatism, Relation Theory, Semiotics, Triadic Relations, Type Theory | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 12 Comments

Peirce’s Categories • 1

Posted on October 30, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Jeffrey Brian Downard Just from my experience, the best first approach to questions of firstness, secondness, thirdness, and so on is to regard k-ness as the property that all k-adic relations possess in common.  There is … Continue reading →

Posted in Abstraction, C.S. Peirce, Category Theory, Dimensionality, Logic, Logic of Relatives, Mathematics, Peirce, Peirce's Categories, Phenomenology, Pragmatism, Relation Theory, Semiotics, Triadic Relations, Type Theory | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 10 Comments

What Makes An Object? • 2

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussison • (1) • (2) Visual metaphors and perceptual analogies can be instructive — they make for most of my personal favorites — but in logic, mathematics, and science our interest extends through the abductive spectrum, from … Continue reading →

Posted in C.S. Peirce, Interpretation, Interpretive Frameworks, Intuition, Logic, Logic of Relatives, Manifolds, Mathematics, Objective Frameworks, Peirce, Peirce List, Physics, Pragmata, Pragmatism, Process, Process Thinking, Relation Theory, Semiosis, Semiotics, Sign Relational Manifolds, Sign Relations, Triadic Relations | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

What Makes An Object? • 1

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Gary Fuhrman • Seeing Things What makes an object is a perennial question. I can remember my physics professors bringing it up in a really big way when I was still just a freshman in college.  They always cautioned … Continue reading →

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You Say “Réseau” • I Say “Rousseau” • 3

Posted on September 21, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Michael Harris • My Réseau • Networks in Action in French Economics Readers of Peirce know the concept of community is integral to his treatment of inquiry, interpretation, knowledge, reality, and truth.  The following statement is a nice résumé … Continue reading →

Posted in C.S. Peirce, Community, Community of Inquiry, Community of Interpretation, Inquiry, Manifolds, Mathematics, Michael Harris, Networks, Réseau, Reality, Rousseau, Semiotics, Social Compact, Social Networks, Sociology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

You Say “Réseau” • I Say “Rousseau” • 2

Posted on September 20, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Michael Harris • My Réseau • Networks in Action in French Economics No true Peircean could fail to be reminded of the following statement whenever the subjects of community or reality come up. The real, then, is that which, … Continue reading →

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You Say “Réseau” • I Say “Rousseau” • 1

Posted on September 18, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Michael Harris • My Réseau • Networks in Action in French Economics The above two posts by Michael Harris sparked a series of reflections that I have yet to reign in fully but I thought I might pause a … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, Community of Inquiry, Community of Interpretation, Inquiry, Manifolds, Mathematics, Michael Harris, Networks, Peirce, Reality, Rousseau, Semiotics, Social Compact, Social Networks, Society | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

In the Way of Inquiry • Objections to Reflexive Inquiry

Posted on September 17, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Inquiry begins when an automatic routine or normal course of activity is interrupted and agents are thrown into doubt concerning what is best to do next and what is really true of their situation.  If this interruptive aspect of inquiry … Continue reading →

Posted in Animata, C.S. Peirce, Inquiry, Inquiry Driven Systems, Inquiry Into Inquiry, Intelligent Systems, Semiotics | Tagged , , , , , , | 5 Comments