Tag Archives: Inquiry Into Inquiry

Reflection On Recursion • Discussion 1

Posted on April 21, 2026 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Reflection On Recursion • 1 Re: Laws of Form • John Mingers JM: This is a very important and interesting topic.  I think you should consider the relationship to self‑reference, indeed are they really the same thing? Also the … Continue reading →

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Reflection On Recursion • 4

Posted on April 18, 2026 by Jon Awbrey

A feature of special note in the recursion diagram is the function traversing the square from one triadic node to the other.  It preserves an image of the object all the while its precedent is being retrieved and processed — … Continue reading →

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Reflection On Recursion • 3

Posted on April 13, 2026 by Jon Awbrey

One other feature of syntactic recursion deserves to be brought into higher relief.  Evidence of it can be found in the recursion diagram by examining the places where three paths meet.  On the descending side there is the point where … Continue reading →

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Reflection On Recursion • 2

Posted on April 9, 2026 by Jon Awbrey

Turning to the form of a simple recursive function the clause we used to define it earns the title of “syntactic recursion” due to the way the function name occurring in the defined phrase re‑occurs in the defining phrase It … Continue reading →

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Reflection On Recursion • 1

Posted on April 6, 2026 by Jon Awbrey

Ongoing conversations with Dan Everett on Facebook have me backtracking to recurring questions about the relationship between formal language theory (as I once learned it) and the properties of natural languages as they are found occurring in the field.  A … Continue reading →

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Reflective Interpretive Frameworks • Incident 1

Posted on March 26, 2026 by Jon Awbrey

Re: William Waites • The Agent That Doesn’t Know Itself WW:  ❝Why Has Nobody Done This?❞ People who study C.S. Peirce would say reflective reasoning requires triadic relations at core and there is work being done on that.  One of … Continue reading →

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Survey of Pragmatic Semiotic Information • 9

Posted on May 4, 2025 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of blog and wiki posts on a theory of information which grows out of pragmatic semiotic ideas.  All my projects are exploratory in character but this line of inquiry is more open‑ended than most.  The question … Continue reading →

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Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems • 7

Posted on May 4, 2025 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of work in progress on Inquiry Driven Systems, material I plan to refine toward a more compact and systematic treatment of the subject. An inquiry driven system is a system having among its state variables some … Continue reading →

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Survey of Cybernetics • 5

Posted on May 2, 2025 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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Higher Order Sign Relations • Discussion 1

Posted on March 27, 2025 by Jon Awbrey

Re: FB | Charles S. Peirce Society • John Corcoran Questions about the proper treatment of use and mention from the standpoint of Peirce’s theory of signs came up recently in discussions on Facebook.  In pragmatic semiotics the trade‑off between … Continue reading →

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