Category Archives: Triadic Relations

Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory • Discussion 4

Posted on December 31, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Previous Post Re: Cybernetics • Cliff Joslyn Dear Cliff, Many thanks for your thoughtful reply.  I copied a transcript to my blog to take up first thing next year.  Here’s hoping we all have a better one! Regards, Jon CJ: … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory • Discussion 3

Posted on December 29, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Helmut Raulien HR: As Peircean semiotics is a three-valued logic, I think it bears relevance for the discussion about multiple-valued logic. Dear Helmut, The distinction between “k-adic” (involving a span of k dimensions) and “k-tomic” (involving … Continue reading →

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Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems • 3

Posted on December 27, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of blog and wiki posts on Inquiry Driven Systems, material I plan to refine toward a more compact and systematic treatment of the subject. An inquiry driven system is a system having among its state variables … Continue reading →

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Survey of Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 2

Posted on December 16, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of blog and wiki posts on three elementary forms of inference, as recognized by a logical tradition extending from Aristotle through Charles S. Peirce.  Particular attention is paid to the way these inferential rudiments combine to … Continue reading →

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Survey of Pragmatic Semiotic Information • 5

Posted on November 1, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of previous blog and wiki posts on the Semiotic Theory Of Information.  All my projects are exploratory in essence but this line of inquiry is more open-ended than most.  The question is: What is information and how … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory • Discussion 2

Posted on October 12, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Edwina Taborsky Dear Edwina, Analytic frameworks, our various theories of categories, sets, sorts, and types, have their uses but they tend to become à priori, autonomous, top-down, and top-heavy unless they are supported by a robust population … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory • Discussion 1

Posted on October 11, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Edwina Taborsky ET: I particularly like your comment that “signhood is a role in a triadic relation, a role that a thing bears or plays in a given context of relationships — it is not an … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory • 1

Posted on October 10, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

To understand how signs work in Peirce’s theory of triadic sign relations, or “semiotics”, we have to understand, in order of increasing generality, sign relations, triadic relations, and relations in general, each as conceived in Peirce’s logic of relative terms … Continue reading →

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Category Theory • Comment 1

Posted on July 14, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

I’m deep in the middle of upgrading my intro to sign relations and I am determined to stick to it this time but there will be a phase when it’s critical to bring category theory to bear on the development.  … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations • Discussion 10

Posted on July 9, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Anthesis • Definition • Signs and Inquiry • Examples Dyadic Aspects • Denotation • Connotation • Ennotation Semiotic Equivalence Relations • (1) • (2) Re: Cybernetics • Klaus Krippendorff • Bernard Scott Re: Ontolog • Mihai Nadin • John Sowa … Continue reading →

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