Category Archives: Sign Relations

The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 29

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • JA • JFS cc: Systems Science • Structural Modeling • Ontolog Forum • Laws of Form • Cybernetics

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 28

Posted on October 15, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 20 I had to go back and remind myself why I took up this thread again, but at least it supplies a lot of material for future study on … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 27

Posted on October 14, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • John Sowa It’s been my observation over many decades that people invoke the “ethics of terminology” mainly to inveigh against everyone’s innovations but their own, so these days I’ve shifted my attention to the “pragmatics of … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 26

Posted on October 14, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • John Sowa Questions about Peirce’s use of “formal” and “normative” in relation to logic and semiotic have arisen on the Peirce List once again, but I have to run off to another appointment, so for now I’ll … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 25

Posted on October 13, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

I’ve been detecting something approaching a mini-zeitgeist lately.  Ideas and issues popping up in recent discussions and readings keep reminding me of themes I first encountered in Peirce’s early work, especially the Lectures on the Logic of Science (1865–1866) and … Continue reading →

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Ontologies As Systems • Comment 1

Posted on October 5, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Joseph Simpson The reason I’ve been maintaining an interdisciplinary perspective in my postings to the Ontolog Forum, Structural Modeling, and Systems Science groups is because each one stresses a distinct but necessary aspect of a systems … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Discussion 18

Posted on October 3, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: FB | Peirce Society • John Corcoran To address Was ist und was soll Information sein? in a Peircean context we need to grasp or at least try to grapple with Peirce’s inklings about information.  As it happens, I’ve … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s 1870 “Logic Of Relatives” • Discussion 1

Posted on September 30, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • John Bottoms Re: History View Blog • A Yukaghir Girl Writes A Love Letter Re: Peirce’s 1870 “Logic Of Relatives” • Proto-Graphical Syntax John Bottoms, writing in the Ontolog Forum, compared the graphic I drew for … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s 1870 “Logic of Relatives” • Overview

Posted on September 24, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

My long ago encounter with Peirce’s 1870 paper, “Description of a Notation for the Logic of Relatives, Resulting from an Amplification of the Conceptions of Boole’s Calculus of Logic”, was one of the events precipitating my return from the hazier … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 24

Posted on September 22, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Laws of Form • James Bowery The concepts of closure and idempotence are closely related. We usually speak of a closure operator in contexts where the objects acted on are the primary interest, as in topology, where the objects … Continue reading →

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