Category Archives: Use and Mention

Reflection On Recursion • 3

Posted on April 13, 2026 by Jon Awbrey

One other feature of syntactic recursion deserves to be brought into higher relief.  Evidence of it can be found in the recursion diagram by examining the places where three paths meet.  On the descending side there is the point where … Continue reading →

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Reflection On Recursion • 2

Posted on April 9, 2026 by Jon Awbrey

Turning to the form of a simple recursive function the clause we used to define it earns the title of “syntactic recursion” due to the way the function name occurring in the defined phrase re‑occurs in the defining phrase It … Continue reading →

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Reflection On Recursion • 1

Posted on April 6, 2026 by Jon Awbrey

Ongoing conversations with Dan Everett on Facebook have me backtracking to recurring questions about the relationship between formal language theory (as I once learned it) and the properties of natural languages as they are found occurring in the field.  A … Continue reading →

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Reflective Interpretive Frameworks • Incident 1

Posted on March 26, 2026 by Jon Awbrey

Re: William Waites • The Agent That Doesn’t Know Itself WW:  ❝Why Has Nobody Done This?❞ People who study C.S. Peirce would say reflective reasoning requires triadic relations at core and there is work being done on that.  One of … Continue reading →

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Higher Order Sign Relations • Discussion 1

Posted on March 27, 2025 by Jon Awbrey

Re: FB | Charles S. Peirce Society • John Corcoran Questions about the proper treatment of use and mention from the standpoint of Peirce’s theory of signs came up recently in discussions on Facebook.  In pragmatic semiotics the trade‑off between … Continue reading →

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Higher Order Sign Relations • Discussion 1

Posted on December 4, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: FB | Charles S. Peirce Society • John Corcoran Questions about the proper treatment of use and mention from the standpoint of Peirce’s theory of signs came up recently in discussions on Facebook.  In pragmatic semiotics the trade‑off between … Continue reading →

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