Category Archives: Venn Diagrams

Re: Logic Syllabus Re: Laws of Form • John Mingers JM: Is [the “just one true” operator] the same or different to xor?  I have read that xor is true when an odd number of variables are true which would … Continue reading →

Re: Logic Syllabus Re: Laws of Form • John Mingers JM: In a previous post you mentioned the minimal negation operator.  Is there also the converse of this, i.e. an operator which is true when exactly one of its arguments … Continue reading →

Re: Genus, Species, Pie Charts, Radio Buttons • 1 Re: Laws of Form • John Mingers Dear John, Once we grasp the utility of minimal negation operators for partitioning a universe of discourse into several regions and any region into … Continue reading →

Re: Genus, Species, Pie Charts, Radio Buttons • 1 Re: Laws of Form • John Mingers JM: I feel as though you have posted these same diagrams many times, and it is always portrayed as clearing the ground for something … Continue reading →

Re: Genus, Species, Pie Charts, Radio Buttons • 1 Re: Laws of Form • William Bricken Last time I alluded to the general problem of relating a variety of formal languages to a shared domain of formal objects, taking six … Continue reading →

Re: Genus, Species, Pie Charts, Radio Buttons • 1 Re: Laws of Form • William Bricken A problem we often encounter is the need to relate a variety of formal languages to the same domain of formal objects.  In our … Continue reading →

Re: Genus, Species, Pie Charts, Radio Buttons • 1 Re: Laws of Form • William Bricken WB: Here’s an analysis of “Boolean” structure.  It’s actually a classification of the structure of distinctions containing 2 and 3 variables.  The work was … Continue reading →

Re: Minimal Negation Operators • (1) • (2) • (3) • (4) Re: Laws of Form • Bruce Schuman BS: Leon Conrad’s presentation talks about “marked” and “unmarked” states. He uses checkboxes to illustrate this choice, which seem to be … Continue reading →

Re: Minimal Negation Operators • (1) • (2) • (3) • (4) Re: Peirce List (1) (2) (3) • Jerry Chandler JC: As a chemist, CSP often inscended hyle terminology into his logical corpse as he sought to extend the 15–17th … Continue reading →

Re: Minimal Negation Operators • (1) • (2) • (3) • (4) Re: Peirce List (1) (2) • Imran Makani IM: In his first post on this thread Jon clearly says that [minimal negation operators] were developed from Peirce’s alpha … Continue reading →