Tag Archives: Definition

Pragmatic Semiotic Information • 3

Posted on March 5, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Where is information bred?  In reality or in its stead? The way signs enter the scene is shown in Figure 2. The Figure illustrates a scene of uncertainty which has been augmented by a classification. In the pattern of classification shown … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • 2

Posted on March 4, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

What is information that a sign may bear it? Three more questions arise at this juncture. How is a sign empowered to contain information? What is the practical context of communication? Why do we care about these bits of information? … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • 1

Posted on March 3, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Information • What’s it good for? The good of information is its use in reducing our uncertainty about an issue which comes before us.  But uncertainty comes in many flavors and so the information which serves to reduce uncertainty can … Continue reading →

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Survey of Definition and Determination • 3

Posted on January 24, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

In the early 1990s, “in the middle of life’s journey” as the saying goes, I returned to grad school in a systems engineering program with the idea of taking a more systems-theoretic approach to my development of Peircean themes, from … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Ψ

Posted on July 22, 2023 by Jon Awbrey

I remember it was back in ’76 when I began to notice a subtle shift of focus in the computer science journals I was reading, from discussing X to discussing Information About X, a transformation I noted mentally as whenever … Continue reading →

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Survey of Definition and Determination • 2

Posted on April 6, 2023 by Jon Awbrey

In the early 1990s, “in the middle of life’s journey” as the saying goes, I returned to grad school in a systems engineering program with the idea of taking a more systems-theoretic approach to my development of Peircean themes, from … Continue reading →

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Definition and Determination • 22

Posted on May 8, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Definition and Determination • (18) • (19) • (20) • (21) Re: Laws of Form • Lyle Anderson Dear Lyle, The labyrinth of Socratic switchbacks and dialogical detours in Excerpt 21 gave several readers fits of befuddlement.  I think I … Continue reading →

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Definition and Determination • 21

Posted on May 6, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Definition and Determination • (18) • (19) • (20) Re: FB | The Ecology of Systems Thinking • Richard Saunders RS: Don’t you think some little bit of unconscious knowledge and logic comes preloaded, à priori, courtesy of our parents … Continue reading →

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Definition and Determination • 20

Posted on May 5, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Robert Marty RM: Thank you for this information.  I happen to have a work in progress (not yet written) on the question of determination.  I discovered that Peirce gave a quite remarkable definition in CP 8.361. “We … Continue reading →

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Definition and Determination • 19

Posted on May 3, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Edwina Taborsky JA: I needed to start thinking of semiotics and sign relations in the light of cybernetics and systems theory.  That required me to convert from understanding a sign relation as a relation among three … Continue reading →

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