Tag Archives: Aristotle

Precursors Of Category Theory • Discussion 1

Posted on September 13, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: FB | Medieval Logic • EB • JA • JA • EB • JA • EB • JA • JA • EB JA:  In the logic of Aristotle categories are adjuncts to reasoning designed to resolve ambiguities and thus … Continue reading →

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Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems • 2

Posted on June 26, 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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Peirce’s Categories • 21

Posted on June 25, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Robert Marty Re: Peirce List • Robert Marty Dear Robert, Let’s go back to a point where paths diverged in the yarrow wood and a lot of synchronicity was lost … Variant understandings of words like … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 24

Posted on June 9, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Edwina Taborsky Dear Edwina, I think I can get the drift of what you are saying.  At least, I can see there is something monadic about the Tenacity method of fixing belief or settling on what … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 23

Posted on June 8, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Richard J. Lipton • The Truth Just a random forkful of thoughts from a pragmatic peircepective … Pragmatic Theory Of Truth Re: Cristopher Moore • Platonism and Pluralism The “irritation of doubt”, a state of uncertainty or surprise, marks … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s Categories • 20

Posted on May 14, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce’s Categories • 15 Understanding another person’s thought can be difficult.  Understanding the way another understands a third person’s thought, all the more so, even if that third person is not so formidable a thinker as Charles Sanders Peirce.  Measures of … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s Categories • 19

Posted on May 13, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce’s Categories • 15 Another point where the onrush of discussion and the impact of worldly distractions caused my train of thought to jump the track occurred about here — Peirce List (1) (2) • Robert Marty • Jon … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s Categories • 18

Posted on May 12, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce’s Categories • 15 In These Uncertain Times, as people keep saying, it’s become even harder to concentrate than usual and I keep losing track of tricky points coming up in discussion which cry out for further discussion but … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s Categories • 17

Posted on May 7, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

I’ve been too immersed in the Peirce List discussion of Robert Marty’s “Podium” paper to write much here — before I lose track of what I’ve been thinking the last several days I’ll need to ravel up my off-the-cuff remarks … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s Categories • 16

Posted on May 4, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce’s Categories • 15 Re: Robert Marty • The Podium of the Universal Categories of C.S. Peirce A feature of particular interest to me in Robert Marty’s paper is the resonance he finds between category theory, as it’s known in … Continue reading →

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