Tag Archives: Logic of Relatives

Hypostatic Abstraction

Posted on August 8, 2008 by Jon Awbrey

Hypostatic Abstraction (HA) is a formal operation on a subject–predicate form that preserves its information while introducing a new subject and upping the “arity” of its predicate. To cite a notorious example, HA turns “Opium is drowsifying” into “Opium has dormitive virtue”. Continue reading →

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Logic of Relatives

Posted on July 31, 2008 by Jon Awbrey

The logic of relatives, more precisely, the logic of relative terms, is the study of relations as represented in symbolic forms known as “rhemes”, “rhemata”, or “relative terms”. Continue reading →

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Semeiotic

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Jon Awbrey

Theory of Signs Semeiotic is one of the terms C.S. Peirce used for his theory of triadic sign relations and it serves to distinguish his theory of signs from other approaches to the same subject matter, more generally referred to … Continue reading →

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