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Peirce’s 1880 “Algebra Of Logic” Chapter 3 • Comment 7.1

I wanted to call attention to a very important statement from Selection 7 (CP 3.225–226).  Peirce enumerates the fundamental forms of individual dual relatives in the following terms: 225.   Individual relatives are of one or other of the two forms … Continue reading

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Relations & Their Relatives • Discussion 5

Re: Peirce List • Howard Pattee At this point we can distinguish two forms of decomposability or reducibility — along with their corresponding negations, indecomposability or irreducibility – that commonly arise. Reducibility under relational composition All triadic relations are irreducible … Continue reading

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Relations & Their Relatives • Discussion 3

Re: Peirce List • Edwina Taborsky • Howard Pattee In the best mathematical terms, a triadic relation is a cartesian product of three sets together with a specified subset of that cartesian product. Alternatively, one may think of a triadic … Continue reading

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Relations & Their Relatives • Discussion 2

Re: Peirce List • Helmut Raulien In systems theory and engineering there is a well-recognized duality or complementarity between the dimensions of Control and Information, frequently cast in terms of action and perception, actuators and detectors, effectors and sensors, and … Continue reading

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Peirce’s 1880 “Algebra Of Logic” Chapter 3 • Selection 7

Chapter 3. The Logic of Relatives (cont.) §4. Classification of Relatives 225.   Individual relatives are of one or other of the two forms and simple relatives are negatives of one or other of these two forms. 226.   The … Continue reading

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Relations & Their Relatives • Discussion 1

Re: Peirce List • Helmut Raulien The divisor of relation signified by is a dyadic relation on the set of positive integers and thus may be understood as a subset of the cartesian product   It is an example of … Continue reading

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Relations & Their Relatives • 3

Here are two ways of looking at the divisibility relation, a dyadic relation of fundamental importance in number theory. Table 1 shows the first few ordered pairs of the relation on positive integers corresponding to the relative term, “divisor of”.  … Continue reading

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Relations & Their Relatives • 2

What is the relationship between “logical relatives” and “mathematical relations”?  The word relative used as a noun in logic is short for relative term — as such it refers to an item of language used to denote a formal object. … Continue reading

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Relations & Their Relatives • 1

Sign relations are special cases of triadic relations in much the same way binary operations in mathematics are special cases of triadic relations.  It amounts to a minor complication that we participate in sign relations whenever we talk or think … Continue reading

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Peirce’s 1880 “Algebra Of Logic” Chapter 3 • Preliminaries

Recurring questions about relations, especially triadic relations and sign relations, prompt a return to Peirce’s core papers on the logic of relative terms and the mathematics of relations in general.  I began a study of his Peirce’s 1870 “Logic of … Continue reading

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