Tag Archives: Peirce

The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 30

Posted on October 18, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Mihai Nadin Re: Peirce List • Helmut Raulien I first encountered Peirce’s dimensions of generality and vagueness — two measures of determinacy on sign relations describing the extent to which objects are determined by signs and … Continue reading →

Posted in Analogy, C.S. Peirce, Communication, Descriptive Science, Fixation of Belief, Formal Systems, Information, Inquiry, Logic, Logic of Relatives, Logic of Science, Logical Graphs, Mathematics, Normative Science, Paradigms, Peirce, Pragmatic Maxim, Pragmatism, Relation Theory, Semiotics, Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Triadicity | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 29

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • JA • JFS cc: Systems Science • Structural Modeling • Ontolog Forum • Laws of Form • Cybernetics

Posted in Analogy, C.S. Peirce, Communication, Descriptive Science, Fixation of Belief, Formal Systems, Information, Inquiry, Logic, Logic of Relatives, Logic of Science, Logical Graphs, Mathematics, Normative Science, Paradigms, Peirce, Pragmatic Maxim, Pragmatism, Relation Theory, Semiotics, Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Triadicity | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 28

Posted on October 15, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes : 20 I had to go back and remind myself why I took up this thread again, but at least it supplies a lot of material for future study on … Continue reading →

Posted in Analogy, C.S. Peirce, Communication, Descriptive Science, Fixation of Belief, Formal Systems, Information, Inquiry, Logic, Logic of Relatives, Logic of Science, Logical Graphs, Mathematics, Normative Science, Paradigms, Peirce, Pragmatic Maxim, Pragmatism, Relation Theory, Semiotics, Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Triadicity | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Peirce’s Categories • 12

Posted on October 12, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • JFS • JBD Different minds are drawn to Peirce for different reasons and they tend to discover different stores of value there.  I was attracted to his work largely for his insights into logic, math, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Abstraction, Aristotle, C.S. Peirce, Category Theory, Logic, Logic of Relatives, Mathematics, Peirce, Peirce's Categories, Phenomenology, Pragmatic Maxim, Relation Theory, Semiotics, Triadic Relations, Triadicity, Type Theory | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments

Peirce’s Categories • 11

Posted on October 10, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Helmut Raulien There is a kind of “second cousin” kinship between category markers and grammatical aspects, moods, or tenses.  In several drafts of an earlier comment I experimented with grammatical terms like conjugation, declension, diacritic, inflection, … Continue reading →

Posted in Abstraction, Aristotle, C.S. Peirce, Category Theory, Logic, Logic of Relatives, Mathematics, Peirce, Peirce's Categories, Phenomenology, Pragmatic Maxim, Relation Theory, Semiotics, Triadic Relations, Triadicity, Type Theory | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

Peirce’s Categories • 10

Posted on October 8, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

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 →

Posted in Abstraction, Aristotle, C.S. Peirce, Category Theory, Logic, Logic of Relatives, Mathematics, Peirce, Peirce's Categories, Phenomenology, Pragmatic Maxim, Relation Theory, Semiotics, Triadic Relations, Triadicity, Type Theory | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

Peirce’s Categories • 9

Posted on October 7, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

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 →

Posted in Abstraction, Aristotle, C.S. Peirce, Category Theory, Logic, Logic of Relatives, Mathematics, Peirce, Peirce's Categories, Phenomenology, Pragmatic Maxim, Relation Theory, Semiotics, Triadic Relations, Triadicity, Type Theory | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 9 Comments

Peirce’s Categories • 8

Posted on October 6, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

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 →

Posted in Abstraction, Aristotle, C.S. Peirce, Category Theory, Logic, Logic of Relatives, Mathematics, Peirce, Peirce's Categories, Phenomenology, Pragmatic Maxim, Relation Theory, Semiotics, Triadic Relations, Triadicity, Type Theory | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

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 →

Posted in C.S. Peirce, Cybernetics, Inquiry, Inquiry Driven Systems, Inquiry Into Inquiry, Intelligent Systems, Knowledge Bases, Knowledge Representation, Learning, Logic, Peirce, Reasoning, Semiotics, Sign Relations, Systems Theory | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Abduction, Aristotle, C.S. Peirce, Comprehension, Deduction, Definition, Determination, Extension, Hypothesis, Induction, Inference, Information, Information = Comprehension × Extension, Inquiry, Intension, Intention, Logic, Logic of Science, Mathematics, Measurement, Observation, Peirce, Perception, Phenomenology, Physics, Pragmatic Semiotic Information, Pragmatism, Probability, Quantum Mechanics, Scientific Method, Semiotics, Sign Relations | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments