Tag Archives: Indication

Survey of Definition and Determination • 4

Posted on May 3, 2025 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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Constraints and Indications • 2

Posted on July 4, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Constraints and Indications • 1 Re: Ontolog Forum • Joseph Simpson Coping with collaboration, communication, context, integration, interoperability, perspective, purpose, and the reality of the information dimension demands a transition from conceptual environments bounded by dyadic relations to those … Continue reading →

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Constraints and Indications • 1

Posted on July 2, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Kaina Stoicheia and the Symbol Grounding Problem Re: Jerry Chandler • Christophe Menant • Jon Awbrey • Christophe Menant The system‑theoretic concept of constraint is one that unifies a manifold of other notions — definition, determination, … 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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Functional Logic • Inquiry and Analogy • 21

Posted on July 19, 2023 by Jon Awbrey

Inquiry and Analogy • Generalized Umpire Operators To get a better handle on the space of higher order propositions and continue developing our functional approach to quantification theory, we’ll need a number of specialized tools.  To begin, we define a … Continue reading →

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Functional Logic • Inquiry and Analogy • 20

Posted on July 18, 2023 by Jon Awbrey

Inquiry and Analogy • Application of Higher Order Propositions to Quantification Theory Table 21 provides a thumbnail sketch of the relationships discussed in this section. Resources Logic Syllabus Boolean Function Boolean-Valued Function Logical Conjunction Minimal Negation Operator Introduction to Inquiry … Continue reading →

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Functional Logic • Inquiry and Analogy • 19

Posted on July 17, 2023 by Jon Awbrey

Inquiry and Analogy • Application of Higher Order Propositions to Quantification Theory Reflection is turning a topic over in various aspects and in various lights so that nothing significant about it shall be overlooked — almost as one might turn … Continue reading →

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Functional Logic • Inquiry and Analogy • 18

Posted on July 16, 2023 by Jon Awbrey

Inquiry and Analogy • Application of Higher Order Propositions to Quantification Theory Last time we took up a fourfold scheme of quantified propositional forms traditionally known as a “Square of Opposition”, relating it to a quartet of higher order propositions … Continue reading →

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Functional Logic • Inquiry and Analogy • 17

Posted on July 15, 2023 by Jon Awbrey

Inquiry and Analogy • Application of Higher Order Propositions to Quantification Theory Our excursion into the expanding landscape of higher order propositions has come round to the point where we can begin to open up new perspectives on quantificational logic. … Continue reading →

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Functional Logic • Inquiry and Analogy • 16

Posted on July 13, 2023 by Jon Awbrey

Inquiry and Analogy • Extending the Existential Interpretation to Quantificational Logic One of the resources we have for our investigation is a formal calculus based on C.S. Peirce’s logical graphs.  For the present we’ll adopt the existential interpretation of that calculus, … Continue reading →

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