Tag Archives: Laws of Form

All Process, No Paradox • 3

Consider what effects that might conceivably have practical bearings you conceive the objects of your conception to have.  Then, your conception of those effects is the whole of your conception of the object. Charles S. Peirce • “Issues of Pragmaticism” … Continue reading

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All Process, No Paradox • 2

These are the forms of time, which imitates eternity and revolves according to a law of number. Plato • Timaeus Re: Lou Kauffman • Iterants, Imaginaries, Matrices As serendipity would have it, Lou Kauffman, who knows a lot about the … Continue reading

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All Process, No Paradox • 1

This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down. Tolkien • The Hobbit Talking about time is a waste of time.  Time … Continue reading

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Alpha Now, Omega Later • 7

Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • Theorems From Physics? In a way, the relation between “physics space” and “information space” is one of the topics I address in my work on inquiry driven systems.  Here is a pertinent place in … Continue reading

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Alpha Now, Omega Later • 6

Re: Alpha Now, Omega Later • Theorems From Physics? • Isomorphism Is Where It’s At In the late 1970s a number of problems in combinatorics and graph theory that I really wanted to know the answers to had driven me … Continue reading

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Alpha Now, Omega Later • 5

Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • Isomorphism Is Where It’s At “Are there more good cases of isomorphism to study?” Just off the top of my head, a couple of examples come to mind. Sign Relations.  In computational settings, … Continue reading

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Alpha Now, Omega Later • 4

Re: Cristopher Moore on Theorems From Physics? It is critically important to distinguish between the objective landscape, the boolean functions as mathematical objects, and the syntactic landscape, the particular formal language we are using as a propositional calculus to denote … Continue reading

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Alpha Now, Omega Later • 3

Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • Theorems From Physics? Bits of Synchronicity … What kind of information process is scientific inquiry? What kinds of information process are involved in the various types of inference — abductive, deductive, inductive — … Continue reading

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Alpha Now, Omega Later • 2

It’s been a while since I threaded this thread — and then there were all the delightful distractions of the holiday convergence — so let me refresh my memory as to what drew me back to these environs. I’m still … Continue reading

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Alpha Now, Omega Later • 1

I am still in the middle of trying to catch up on some long put-off work but recent discussions of logical graphs and physics and the like on the Peirce List have bestirred me from my grindstone long enough to … Continue reading

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