Tag Archives: Inquiry

Ontologies As Systems • Comment 1

Posted on October 5, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Joseph Simpson The reason I’ve been maintaining an interdisciplinary perspective in my postings to the Ontolog Forum, Structural Modeling, and Systems Science groups is because each one stresses a distinct but necessary aspect of a systems … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Discussion 18

Posted on October 3, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: FB | Peirce Society • 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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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 24

Posted on September 22, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Laws of Form • James Bowery The concepts of closure and idempotence are closely related. We usually speak of a closure operator in contexts where the objects acted on are the primary interest, as in topology, where the objects … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 23

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Structural Modeling • Joseph Simpson Re: Peirce’s 1870 Logic Of Relatives • Selection 1 A critical question in mathematical logic and its applications concerns the threshold of complexity between dyadic (binary) and triadic (ternary) relations, in essence, whether 2-place … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 22

Posted on September 19, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Peirce Society Facebook Page • JC • JA • JA • JA • JC A discussion — well, more like a series of posts and counterposts — arose last week on the Facebook Page of the Charles S. Peirce Society, … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 21

Posted on September 18, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • John Bottoms Re: The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 20 The reflections in my previous blog post developed over several weeks observing various discussions around the web where people seemed to be … Continue reading →

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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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