Category Archives: Triadic Relations

Peirce’s 1880 “Algebra Of Logic” Chapter 3 • Comment 7.3

Dyadic relations have graph-theoretic representations as labeled directed graphs with loops, also known as labeled pseudo-digraphs in some schools of graph theory.  I’ll just call them digraphs here, letting the labels and loops be understood in this logical context. The … Continue reading

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Peirce’s 1880 “Algebra Of Logic” Chapter 3 • Comment 7.2

Because it can sometimes be difficult to reconnect abstractions with their concrete instances, especially after the abstract types have become autonomous and taken on a life of their own, let us resort to a simple concrete case and examine the … Continue reading

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Peirce’s 1880 “Algebra Of Logic” Chapter 3 • Comment 7.1

I wanted to call attention to a very important statement from Selection 7 (CP 3.225–226).  Peirce enumerates the fundamental forms of individual dual relatives in the following terms: 225.   Individual relatives are of one or other of the two forms … Continue reading

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Relations & Their Relatives • Discussion 5

Re: Peirce List • Howard Pattee At this point we can distinguish two forms of decomposability or reducibility — along with their corresponding negations, indecomposability or irreducibility – that commonly arise. Reducibility under relational composition All triadic relations are irreducible … Continue reading

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Relations & Their Relatives • Discussion 4

Re: Peirce List Discussion • Howard Pattee We use this or that species of diagrams to represent a fraction of the properties, hardly ever all the properties, of the objects in an object domain.  The diagrams that Peirce developed to … Continue reading

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Peirce’s 1880 “Algebra Of Logic” Chapter 3 • Selection 8

Chapter 3. The Logic of Relatives (cont.) §4. Classification of Relatives (cont.) 227.   These different classes have the following relations.  Every negative of a concurrent and every alio-relative is both an opponent and the negative of a self-relative.  Every … Continue reading

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Relations & Their Relatives • Discussion 3

Re: Peirce List • Edwina Taborsky • Howard Pattee In the best mathematical terms, a triadic relation is a cartesian product of three sets together with a specified subset of that cartesian product. Alternatively, one may think of a triadic … Continue reading

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Relations & Their Relatives • Discussion 2

Re: Peirce List • Helmut Raulien In systems theory and engineering there is a well-recognized duality or complementarity between the dimensions of Control and Information, frequently cast in terms of action and perception, actuators and detectors, effectors and sensors, and … Continue reading

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Peirce’s 1880 “Algebra Of Logic” Chapter 3 • Selection 7

Chapter 3. The Logic of Relatives (cont.) §4. Classification of Relatives 225.   Individual relatives are of one or other of the two forms and simple relatives are negatives of one or other of these two forms. 226.   The … Continue reading

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Relations & Their Relatives • Discussion 1

Re: Peirce List • Helmut Raulien The divisor of relation signified by is a dyadic relation on the set of positive integers and thus may be understood as a subset of the cartesian product   It is an example of … Continue reading

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