Tag Archives: Information = Comprehension × Extension

The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 33

Posted on October 20, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • William Frank William Frank asked a question about propositional attitudes and presuppositions. WF: Are there any formal languages, such as Common Logic, that adequately represent statements about propositions — statements from which, in natural reasoning, one can … Continue reading →

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De In Esse Predication • Preliminaries

Posted on May 23, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Questions have arisen in several places about classical logic and its vicissitudes, what used to be called “deviant logics” in some circles, all of which I recall being hot topics and much-mooted questions when I was a young wffer-snapper and Novice … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Discussion 21

Posted on February 8, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: FB | Medieval Logic • Kollbjorn Oldtheyn • Edward Buckner On the question of which later developments in logic Peirce anticipated, I’ve been more focused on the points where he saw through to features we would not see again … Continue reading →

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Survey of Pragmatic Semiotic Information • 5

Posted on November 1, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of previous blog and wiki posts on the Semiotic Theory Of Information.  All my projects are exploratory in essence but this line of inquiry is more open-ended than most.  The question is: What is information and how … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Discussion 20

Posted on September 30, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • IBM Conference on the Informational Lens A little bit of history recoded … It may be worth noting the Information Revolution in our understanding of science began in the mid 1860s when C.S. Peirce … Continue reading →

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Survey of Definition and Determination • 1

Posted on September 6, 2020 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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Readings On Determination • Discussion 4

Posted on April 29, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Gary Fuhrman Determination, along with the related concepts of constraint, definition, form, structure, etc., are subjects of recurring discussion.  Here are links to readings I collected back when I began approaching inference, information, inquiry, logic, sign processes, … Continue reading →

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Survey of Cybernetics • 1

Posted on March 18, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Again, in a ship, if a man were at liberty to do what he chose, but were devoid of mind and excellence in navigation (αρετης κυβερνητικης), do you perceive what must happen to him and his fellow sailors? Plato • … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Discussion 19

Posted on January 22, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Differential Logic and Dynamic Systems Re: FB | Systems Sciences • Kenneth Lloyd An exchange on Facebook took me back to recent discussions of pragmatic truth and long-running discussions of pragmatic semiotic information.  Just by way of a note … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Discussion 18

Posted on October 3, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce Society Facebook Page • John Corcoran To address Was ist und was soll Information sein? in a Peircean context we need to grasp or at least try to grapple with Peirce’s inklings about information.  As it happens, I’ve … Continue reading →

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