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Differential Propositional Calculus • 25

Posted on December 22, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Example 1. A Square Rigging (cont.)

Because the initial space $X = \langle A \rangle$ is one‑dimensional we can easily fit the second order extension $\mathrm{E}^2 X = \langle A, \mathrm{d}A, \mathrm{d}^2 A \rangle$ within the compass of a single venn diagram, charting the pair of converging trajectories as shown in the following Figure.

$\text{Example 1. The Anchor}$

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Differential Propositional Calculus • 24

Posted on December 21, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Urge and urge and urge,
Always the procreant urge of the world.

— Walt Whitman • Leaves of Grass

Example 1. A Square Rigging

Returning to the universe of discourse based on a single feature $A,$ suppose we are given the initial condition $A = \mathrm{d}A$ and the second order differential law $\mathrm{d}^2 A = \texttt{(} A \texttt{)}.$ Since the equation $A = \mathrm{d}A$ is logically equivalent to the disjunction $A ~ \mathrm{d}A \lor \texttt{(} A \texttt{)(} \mathrm{d}A \texttt{)}$ we may infer two possible trajectories, as shown in the following Table.

$\text{A Pair of Commodious Trajectories}$

In either case the state $A ~ \texttt{(} \mathrm{d}A \texttt{)(} \mathrm{d}^2 A \texttt{)}$ is a stable attractor or terminal condition for both starting points.

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Differential Propositional Calculus • 23

Posted on December 20, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

The clock indicates the moment . . . . but what does
eternity indicate?

— Walt Whitman • Leaves of Grass

A One‑Dimensional Universe (concl.)

It might be thought an independent time variable needs to be brought in at this point but it is an insight of fundamental importance to realize the idea of process is logically prior to the notion of time. A time variable is a reference to a clock — a canonical, conventional process accepted or established as a standard of measurement but in essence no different than any other process. That raises questions of how different subsystems in a more global process can be brought into comparison and what it means for one process to serve the function of a local standard for others. Inquiries of that order serve but to wrap up our present puzzles in further riddles and are far too involved to be handled at our current level of approximation. We’ll return to them another time.

Observe how the secular inference rules, used by themselves, involve a loss of information, since nothing in them tells whether the momenta $\{ \texttt{(} \mathrm{d}A \texttt{)}, \mathrm{d}A \}$ are changed or unchanged in the next moment. To know that one would have to determine $\mathrm{d}^2 A,$ and so on, pursuing an infinite regress. In order to rest with a finitely determinate system it is necessary to make an infinite assumption, for example, that $\mathrm{d}^k A = 0$ for all $k$ greater than some fixed value $M.$ Another way to escape the regress is through the provision of a dynamic law, in typical form making higher order differentials dependent on lower degrees and estates.

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Differential Propositional Calculus • 22

Posted on December 19, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

A One‑Dimensional Universe (cont.)

The first order differential extension of $\mathcal{X}$ is $\mathrm{E}\mathcal{X} = \{ x_1, \mathrm{d}x_1 \} = \{ A, \mathrm{d}A \}.$ If the feature $A$ is interpreted as applying to some object or state then the feature $\mathrm{d}A$ may be taken as an attribute of the same object or state which tells it is changing significantly with respect to the property $A,$ as if it bore an “escape velocity” with respect to the state $A.$ In practice, differential features acquire their meaning through a class of differential inference rules.

For example, relative to a frame of observation to be elaborated more fully in time, if $A$ and $\mathrm{d}A$ are true at a given moment, it would be reasonable to assume $\texttt{(} A \texttt{)}$ will be true in the next moment of observation. Taken all together we have the fourfold scheme of inference shown below.

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Differential Propositional Calculus • 21

Posted on December 18, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

There was never any more inception than there is now,
Nor any more youth or age than there is now;
And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.

— Walt Whitman • Leaves of Grass

A One‑Dimensional Universe

Let $\mathcal{X} = \{ A \}$ be a logical basis containing one boolean variable or logical feature $A.$ The basis element $A$ may be regarded as a simple proposition or coordinate projection $A : \mathbb{B} \to \mathbb{B}.$ Corresponding to the basis $\mathcal{X} = \{ A \}$ is the alphabet $\mathfrak{X} = \{ ``A" \}$ which serves whenever we need to make explicit mention of the symbols used in our formulas and representations.

The space $X = \langle A \rangle = \{ \texttt{(} A \texttt{)}, A \}$ of points (cells, vectors, interpretations) has cardinality $2^n = 2^1 = 2$ and is isomorphic to $\mathbb{B} = \{ 0, 1 \}.$ Moreover, $X$ may be identified with the set of singular propositions $\{ x : \mathbb{B} \xrightarrow{s} \mathbb{B} \}.$

The space of linear propositions $X^* = \{ \mathrm{hom} : \mathbb{B} \xrightarrow{\ell} \mathbb{B} \} = \{ 0, A \}$ is algebraically dual to $X$ and also has cardinality $2.$ Here, $``0"$ is interpreted as denoting the constant function $0 : \mathbb{B} \to \mathbb{B},$ amounting to the linear proposition of rank $0,$ while $A$ is the linear proposition of rank $1.$

Last but not least we have the positive propositions $\{ \mathrm{pos} : \mathbb{B} \xrightarrow{p} \mathbb{B} \} = \{ A, 1 \}$ of rank $1$ and $0,$ respectively, where $``1"$ is understood as denoting the constant function $1 : \mathbb{B} \to \mathbb{B}.$

All told there are $2^{2^n} = 2^{2^1} = 4$ propositions in the universe of discourse $\mathcal{X}^\bullet = [\mathcal{X}],$ collectively forming the set $X^\uparrow = \{ f : X \to \mathbb{B} \} = \{ 0, \texttt{(} A \texttt{)}, A, 1 \} \cong (\mathbb{B} \to \mathbb{B}).$

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Differential Propositional Calculus • 20

Posted on December 18, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

I would have preferred to be enveloped in words, borne way beyond all possible beginnings.

— Michel Foucault • The Discourse on Language

Back to the Beginning • Exemplary Universes

To anchor our understanding of differential logic let’s examine how the various concepts apply in the simplest possible concrete cases, where the initial dimension is only 1 or 2. In spite of the simplicity of those cases it is possible to observe how central difficulties of the subject begin to arise already at that stage.

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Differential Propositional Calculus • 19

Posted on December 17, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,
Missing me one place search another,
I stop some where waiting for you

— Walt Whitman • Leaves of Grass

Life on Easy Street

The finite character of the extended universe $[\mathrm{E}\mathcal{A}]$ makes the task of solving differential propositions relatively straightforward. The solution set of the differential proposition $q : \mathrm{E}A \to \mathbb{B}$ is the set of models $q^{-1}(1)$ in $\mathrm{E}A.$ Finding all models of $q,$ the extended interpretations in $\mathrm{E}A$ which satisfy $q,$ can be carried out by a finite search.

Being in possession of complete algorithms for propositional calculus modeling, theorem checking, and theorem proving makes the analytic task fairly simple in principle, even if the question of efficiency in the face of arbitrary complexity remains another matter entirely.

The NP‑completeness of propositional satisfiability may weigh against the prospects of a single efficient algorithm capable of covering the whole space $[\mathrm{E}\mathcal{A}]$ with equal facility but there appears to be much room for improvement in classifying special forms and developing algorithms tailored to their practical processing.

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Differential Propositional Calculus • 18

Posted on December 16, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

The Extended Universe of Discourse

The extended basis $\mathrm{E}\mathcal{A}$ of a universe of discourse $[\mathcal{A}]$ is formed by taking the initial basis $\mathcal{A}$ together with the differential basis $\mathrm{d}\mathcal{A}.$ Thus we have the following formula.

$\mathrm{E}\mathcal{A} ~=~ \mathcal{A} \cup \mathrm{d}\mathcal{A} ~=~ \{ a_1, \ldots, a_n, \mathrm{d}a_1, \ldots, \mathrm{d}a_n \}$

This supplies enough material to construct the differential extension $\mathrm{E}A$ of the space $A,$ also called the tangent bundle of $A,$ in the following fashion.

$\mathrm{E}A ~=~ \langle \mathrm{E}\mathcal{A} \rangle ~=~ \langle \mathcal{A} \cup \mathrm{d}\mathcal{A} \rangle ~=~ \langle a_1, \ldots, a_n, \mathrm{d}a_1, \ldots, \mathrm{d}a_n \rangle$

and also

$\mathrm{E}A ~=~ A \times \mathrm{d}A ~=~ A_1 \times \ldots \times A_n \times \mathrm{d}A_1 \times \ldots \times \mathrm{d}A_n$

That gives $\mathrm{E}A$ the type $\mathbb{B}^n \times \mathbb{D}^n.$

Finally, the extended universe $\mathrm{E}A^\bullet = [\mathrm{E}\mathcal{A}]$ is the full collection of points and functions, or interpretations and propositions, based on the extended set of features $\mathrm{E}\mathcal{A},$ a fact summed up in the following notation.

$\mathrm{E}A^\bullet ~=~ [\mathrm{E}\mathcal{A}] ~=~ [a_1, \ldots, a_n, \mathrm{d}a_1, \ldots, \mathrm{d}a_n]$

That gives the extended universe $\mathrm{E}A^\bullet$ the following type.

$(\mathbb{B}^n \times \mathbb{D}^n\ +\!\to \mathbb{B}) ~=~ (\mathbb{B}^n \times \mathbb{D}^n, (\mathbb{B}^n \times \mathbb{D}^n \to \mathbb{B}))$

A proposition in the extended universe $[\mathrm{E}\mathcal{A}]$ is called a differential proposition and forms the logical analogue of a system of differential equations, constraints, or relations in ordinary calculus.

With these constructions, the differential extension $\mathrm{E}A$ and the space of differential propositions $(\mathrm{E}A \to \mathbb{B}),$ we arrive at the launchpad of our space explorations.

Table 11 summarizes the notations needed to describe the first order differential extensions of propositional calculi in a systematic manner.

$\text{Table 11. Differential Extension} \stackrel{_\bullet}{} \text{Basic Notation}$

The adjective differential or tangent is systematically attached to every construct based on the differential alphabet $\mathrm{d}\mathfrak{A},$ taken by itself. In like fashion, the adjective extended or the substantive bundle is systematically attached to any construct associated with the full complement of ${2n}$ features.

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Differential Propositional Calculus • 17

Posted on December 15, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Differential Propositions • Tangent Spaces

The tangent space to $A$ at one of its points $x,$ sometimes written $\mathrm{T}_x(A),$ takes the form $\mathrm{d}A$ $=$ $\langle \mathrm{d}\mathcal{A} \rangle$ $=$ $\langle \mathrm{d}a_1, \ldots, \mathrm{d}a_n \rangle.$ Strictly speaking, the name cotangent space is probably more correct for this construction but since we take up spaces and their duals in pairs to form our universes of discourse it allows our language to be pliable here.

Proceeding as we did with the base space $A,$ the tangent space $\mathrm{d}A$ at a point of $A$ may be analyzed as the following product of distinct and independent factors.

$\mathrm{d}A ~=~ \displaystyle \prod_{i=1}^n \mathrm{d}A_i ~=~ \mathrm{d}A_1 \times \ldots \times \mathrm{d}A_n$

Each factor $\mathrm{d}A_i$ is a set consisting of two differential propositions, $\mathrm{d}A_i = \{ (\mathrm{d}a_i), \mathrm{d}a_i \},$ where $\texttt{(} \mathrm{d}a_i \texttt{)}$ is a proposition with the logical value of $\lnot\mathrm{d}a_i.$ Each component $\mathrm{d}A_i$ has the type $\mathbb{B},$ operating under the ordered correspondence $\{ \texttt{(} \mathrm{d}a_i \texttt{)}, \mathrm{d}a_i \} \cong \{ 0, 1 \}.$ A measure of clarity is achieved, however, by acknowledging the differential usage with a superficially distinct type $\mathbb{D},$ whose sense may be indicated as follows.

$\mathbb{D} = \{ \texttt{(} \mathrm{d}a_i \texttt{)}, \mathrm{d}a_i \} = \{ \text{same}, \text{different} \} = \{ \text{stay}, \text{change} \} = \{ \text{stop}, \text{step} \}.$

Viewed within a coordinate representation, spaces of type $\mathbb{B}^n$ and $\mathbb{D}^n$ may appear to be identical sets of binary vectors, but taking a view at that level of abstraction would be like ignoring the qualitative units and the diverse dimensions that distinguish position and momentum, or the different roles of quantity and impulse.

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Differential Propositional Calculus • 16

Posted on December 14, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Differential Propositions • Qualitative Analogues of Differential Equations

A differential extension of a universe of discourse $[\mathcal{A}]$ is constructed by augmenting its alphabet $\mathfrak{A}$ with a set of symbols for differential features, in effect basic changes capable of occurring in $[\mathcal{A}].$ The additional symbols are taken to denote primitive features of change, qualitative attributes of motion, or proposals about the ways items in the universe of discourse may change or move in relation to features noted in the original alphabet.

To give the new symbols a name, we define the differential alphabet or tangent alphabet $\mathrm{d}\mathfrak{A}$ $=$ $\{``\mathrm{d}a_1", \ldots, ``\mathrm{d}a_n"\},$ in principle just an arbitrary set of symbols, disjoint from the initial alphabet $\mathfrak{A}$ $=$ $\{``a_1", \ldots, ``a_n"\}$ and given the meanings just indicated.

In practice the precise interpretation of the symbols in $\mathrm{d}\mathfrak{A}$ is conceived to be changeable from point to point of the underlying space $A.$ Indeed, for all we know, the state space $A$ might well be the state space of a language interpreter, one concerned with the idiomatic meanings of the dialect generated by $\mathfrak{A}$ and $\mathrm{d}\mathfrak{A}.$

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Example 1. A Square Rigging (cont.)

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