Category Archives: Sign Relations

Semiotic Theory Of Information • 2

Posted on October 11, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

2014 Oct 06 Some portions of a paper Susan Awbrey and I presented at a Society for Applied Learning Technology conference in 1990 may be relevant at this juncture. Exploring Research Data Interactively • Theme One • A Program of … Continue reading →

Posted in C.S. Peirce, Information, Information Theory, Inquiry, Inquiry Driven Systems, Logic, Logic of Relatives, Mathematics, Peirce, Peirce List, Pragmatic Information, Pragmatism, Relation Theory, Semiotic Information, Semiotics, Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Triadicity | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 12 Comments

Semiotic Theory Of Information • 1

Posted on October 10, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

2014 Oct 06 On the subject of Peirce’s laws of information — or the semiotic theory of information — here are a few links that come to mind for possible future reference: Semiotic Information Information = Comprehension × Extension And … Continue reading →

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C.S. Peirce • Syllabus • Selection 2

Posted on October 4, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

But round about the castle there began to grow a hedge of thorns, which every year became higher, and at last grew close up round the castle and all over it, so that there was nothing of it to be … Continue reading →

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Consequences of Triadic Relation Irreducibility • 2

Posted on September 14, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

From time to time I come to the realization that there are ways of reading Peirce that make no sense to me.  When I stop to think about the potential sources of that evident divergence from common sense, the first … Continue reading →

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Consequences of Triadic Relation Irreducibility • 1

Posted on September 13, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

2014 Sep 10 I will have to be out of the loop for some days, but this post will give me a peg on which I can hang a few thoughts via mobile device that have been tugging at the … Continue reading →

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Doubt, Uncertainty, Dispersion, Entropy • 1

Posted on July 1, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Stephen Rose Just a note to anchor a series of recurring thoughts that come to mind in relation to a Peirce List discussion of entropy etc., but I won’t have much to say on the bio-chemico-physico-thermo-dynamic … Continue reading →

Posted in Animata, Aristotle, C.S. Peirce, Cybernetics, Differential Logic, Dispersion, Doubt, Entropy, Information, Inquiry, Inquiry Driven Systems, Inquiry Into Inquiry, Peirce, Semiotic Information, Semiotics, Sign Relations, Uncertainty | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Precursors Of Category Theory • 3

Posted on January 3, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. Immanuel Kant (1785) Precursors Of Category Theory Peirce Cued by Kant’s idea on the function of concepts in … Continue reading →

Posted in Abstraction, Ackermann, Aristotle, C.S. Peirce, Carnap, Category Theory, Hilbert, Kant, Logic, Logic of Relatives, Mathematics, Peirce, Peirce's Categories, Relation Theory, Saunders Mac Lane, Sign Relations, Type Theory | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

Precursors Of Category Theory • 2

Posted on December 30, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists … ☙ Marcel Proust Precursors Of Category Theory When … Continue reading →

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Precursors Of Category Theory • 1

Posted on December 20, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

A few years back I began a sketch on the Precursors of Category Theory, aiming to trace the continuities of the category concept from Aristotle, thorough Kant and Peirce, Hilbert and Ackermann, to contemporary mathematical use.  Perhaps a few will … Continue reading →

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Alpha Now, Omega Later • 7

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • Theorems From Physics? In a way, the relation between “physics space” and “information space” is one of the topics I address in my work on inquiry driven systems.  Here is a pertinent place in … Continue reading →

Posted in C.S. Peirce, Differential Logic, Dynamical Systems, Equational Inference, Laws of Form, Logic, Logical Graphs, Mathematics, Propositional Calculus, Semiotics, Sign Relations, Spencer Brown | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments