Tag Archives: Inquiry

The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 20

Posted on September 17, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Cross-paradigm communication, like cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural communication, can be difficult.  Sometimes people do not even recognize the existence of other paradigms, disciplines, cultures, long before it comes to the question of their value.  Readers of Peirce know he often uses … Continue reading →

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 27

Posted on August 20, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Gil Kalai • Avi Wigderson : Integrating Computational Modeling, Algorithms, and Complexity into Theories of Nature Marks a New Scientific Revolution! I took a look at Avi’s paper “On the Nature of the Theory of Computation” (OtNotToC).  There is … Continue reading →

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 26

Posted on August 6, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Gil Kalai • Avi Wigderson : Integrating Computational Modeling, Algorithms, and Complexity into Theories of Nature Marks a New Scientific Revolution! Projects giving a central place to computation in scientific inquiry go back to Hobbes and Leibniz, at least, … Continue reading →

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Conceptual Barriers • 3

Posted on May 14, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Paola Di Maio Partly this discussion and partly just the mood I’m in brought to mind a motley assortment of old reminiscences.  My first years in college I oscillated (or vacillated) between math and physics, eventually … Continue reading →

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Conceptual Barriers • 2

Posted on May 13, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Paola Di Maio Synchronicity being what it is, here for your contemplation are two pictures from a current discussion on Facebook. See Tables 8 and 9 in the following article and section. Application of Higher Order … Continue reading →

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Conceptual Barriers • 1

Posted on May 8, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • John Sowa My first year at college the university held a cross-campus colloquium taking its theme from C.P. Snow’s Two Cultures about the need for and difficulties of cross-disciplinary communication and collaboration in our day.  The university … Continue reading →

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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Discussion 17

Posted on March 15, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Joseph Simpson We are in the middle of trying to work out what Peirce has in mind with his concept of information.  He appears to have developed it from purely logical considerations — if logic can … Continue reading →

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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Discussion 16

Posted on March 8, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Joseph Simpson To understand the purpose of Peirce’s lecture hall illustrations I think we need to consider how these sorts of expository examples come into being.  Having crafted a few myself the technique is much like … Continue reading →

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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Discussion 15

Posted on February 28, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

I am roughly at the halfway point of my comments on Peirce’s information formula, having just finished up the link between abductive inference and iconic reference.  The discussion of induction and indexicals will follow pretty much the same pattern, though … Continue reading →

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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Discussion 14

Posted on February 21, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Bruce Schuman Information and optimization go hand in hand — discovering the laws or constraints naturally governing the systems in which we live is a big part of moving toward our hearts’ desires within them.  I’m … Continue reading →

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