Category Archives: Systems Theory

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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Conceptual Barriers • 3

Posted on May 14, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Paola Di Maio Partly this discussion and partly just the mood I’m in brought to mind a motley assortment of old reminiscences.  My first years in college I oscillated (or vacillated) between math and physics, eventually … Continue reading →

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Conceptual Barriers • 2

Posted on May 13, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Paola Di Maio Synchronicity being what it is, here for your contemplation are two pictures from a current discussion on Facebook. See Tables 8 and 9 in the following article and section. Application of Higher Order … Continue reading →

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Conceptual Barriers • 1

Posted on May 8, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • John Sowa My first year at college the university held a cross-campus colloquium taking its theme from C.P. Snow’s Two Cultures about the need for and difficulties of cross-disciplinary communication and collaboration in our day.  The university … Continue reading →

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Constraints and Indications • 2

Posted on July 4, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Joseph Simpson Coping with collaboration, communication, context, integration, interoperability, perspective, purpose, and the reality of the information dimension demands a transition from conceptual environments bounded by dyadic relations to those informed by triadic relations, especially the … Continue reading →

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Inquiry Driven Systems • Comment 1

Posted on February 18, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Daniel Everett • Edwina Taborsky The role of acquired knowledge bases in inquiry, learning, and reasoning is discussed in the following article and sections. Introduction to Inquiry Driven Systems Inquiry Learning Transfer Testing cc: Peirce List … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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