Tag Archives: Pragmatic Semiotic Information

Sign Relations • Definition

Posted on June 1, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

One of Peirce’s clearest and most complete definitions of a sign is one he gives in the context of providing a definition for logic, and so it is informative to view it in that setting. Logic will here be defined … Continue reading →

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Triadic Relations • Discussion 2

Posted on May 30, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven: A time for building castles in the stratosphere, A time to mind the anti-gravs that keep us here. Re: Systems Science • Rob Young Cf: Conceptual Barriers … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations • Discussion 1

Posted on May 28, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Thus, if a sunflower, in turning towards the sun, becomes by that very act fully capable, without further condition, of reproducing a sunflower which turns in precisely corresponding ways toward the sun, and of doing so with the same reproductive … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations • Anthesis

Posted on May 28, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Thus, if a sunflower, in turning towards the sun, becomes by that very act fully capable, without further condition, of reproducing a sunflower which turns in precisely corresponding ways toward the sun, and of doing so with the same reproductive … Continue reading →

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Triadic Relations • Discussion 1

Posted on May 26, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Cybernetics • Loet Leydesdorff Loet Leydesdorff mentioned making extensive use of triads in a new paper. Leydesdorff, Loet, and Ivanova, Inga (2020), “The Measurement of ‘Interdisciplinarity’ and ‘Synergy’ in Scientific and Extra-Scientific Collaborations”. Online (1) (2). Just off-hand this … Continue reading →

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Triadic Relations • Examples 2

Posted on May 24, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Examples from Semiotics The study of signs — the full variety of significant forms of expression — in relation to all the affairs signs are significant of, and in relation to all the beings signs are significant to, is known … Continue reading →

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Triadic Relations • Examples 1

Posted on May 21, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Examples from Mathematics For the sake of topics to be taken up later, it is useful to examine a pair of triadic relations in tandem.  We will construct two triadic relations, and each of which is a subset of the … Continue reading →

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Triadic Relations • Preamble

Posted on May 20, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Of triadic Being the multitude of forms is so terrific that I have usually shrunk from the task of enumerating them;  and for the present purpose such an enumeration would be worse than superfluous:  it would be a great inconvenience. … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Discussion 19

Posted on January 22, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Differential Logic and Dynamic Systems Re: FB | Systems Sciences • Kenneth Lloyd An exchange on Facebook took me back to recent discussions of pragmatic truth and long-running discussions of pragmatic semiotic information.  Just by way of a note … 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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