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Peirce’s Categories • 10

Re: Cybernetics • Bernard Cohen I began that note on the Precursors of Category Theory as a purely exploratory sketch, plotting a few points on a single theme with no plans of making an exhaustive survey.  Even at that I … Continue reading

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Peirce’s Categories • 9

Re: FB | Systems Sciences • Kenneth Lloyd Scanning the spectrum of sources I sampled in my Precursors of Category Theory, there are many differences in the categorical paradigms different observers developed over the centuries.  Just for starters, the numbers … Continue reading

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Peirce’s Categories • 8

Re: Peirce Society Facebook Page • Ricardo Bibi Tamtam Durski The best way to get clear about Peirce’s categories is to look to their origin in Aristotle’s concept of a category, in effect nothing more mysterious than a grammatical device … Continue reading

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Peirce’s 1870 “Logic Of Relatives” • Discussion 1

Re: Ontolog Forum • John Bottoms Re: History View Blog • A Yukaghir Girl Writes A Love Letter Re: Peirce’s 1870 “Logic Of Relatives” • Proto-Graphical Syntax John Bottoms, writing in the Ontolog Forum, compared the graphic I drew for … Continue reading

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Peirce’s 1870 “Logic of Relatives” • Overview

My long ago encounter with Peirce’s 1870 paper, “Description of a Notation for the Logic of Relatives, Resulting from an Amplification of the Conceptions of Boole’s Calculus of Logic”, was one of the events precipitating my return from the hazier … Continue reading

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 24

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

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

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

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

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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