Tag Archives: Dynamical Systems

Time, Topology, Differential Logic • 4

Re: Peirce List Discussion • JFS • JA JA: Trying to understand inquiry and semiosis in general as temporal processes is one of the things that forced me to develop differential logic as an extension of propositional logic, for which … Continue reading

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Time, Topology, Differential Logic • 3

Re: Peirce List Discussion • JA Worldly events are interfering with my concentration quite a bit this week, perhaps for days to come, but it does help to immerse myself in work.  I am starting a blog series to follow … Continue reading

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Time, Topology, Differential Logic • 2

Re: Peirce List Discussion • JBD • JA • JA Topology is the most general study of geometric space.  It is critical here to get beyond the “popular” accounts and learn the basics from a real math book.  A classic … Continue reading

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Time, Topology, Differential Logic • 1

The clock indicates the moment . . . . but what does eternity indicate? Walt Whitman • Leaves of Grass Re: Peirce List • ET • JFS • JA Trying to understand inquiry in particular and semiosis in general as … Continue reading

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Alpha Now, Omega Later • 7

Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • Theorems From Physics? In a way, the relation between “physics space” and “information space” is one of the topics I address in my work on inquiry driven systems.  Here is a pertinent place in … Continue reading

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Alpha Now, Omega Later • 6

Re: Alpha Now, Omega Later • Theorems From Physics? • Isomorphism Is Where It’s At In the late 1970s a number of problems in combinatorics and graph theory that I really wanted to know the answers to had driven me … Continue reading

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Alpha Now, Omega Later • 5

Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • Isomorphism Is Where It’s At “Are there more good cases of isomorphism to study?” Just off the top of my head, a couple of examples come to mind. Sign Relations.  In computational settings, … Continue reading

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Alpha Now, Omega Later • 4

Re: Cristopher Moore on Theorems From Physics? It is critically important to distinguish between the objective landscape, the boolean functions as mathematical objects, and the syntactic landscape, the particular formal language we are using as a propositional calculus to denote … Continue reading

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Alpha Now, Omega Later • 3

Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • Theorems From Physics? Bits of Synchronicity … What kind of information process is scientific inquiry? What kinds of information process are involved in the various types of inference — abductive, deductive, inductive — … Continue reading

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Alpha Now, Omega Later • 2

It’s been a while since I threaded this thread — and then there were all the delightful distractions of the holiday convergence — so let me refresh my memory as to what drew me back to these environs. I’m still … Continue reading

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