Tag Archives: Pragmatic Semiotic Information

Icon Index Symbol • 2

Posted on April 7, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed For Signs Re: Peirce List (1) (2) (3) • Jon Alan Schmidt JAS:  What class of Sign is a law of nature? I’ve mentioned the following possibility several times before, but maybe not too recently. … Continue reading →

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Icon Index Symbol • 1

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Jon Awbrey

Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed For Signs Re: Peirce List • Jerry Rhee With regard to the main three types of signs — Icons, Indices, Symbols — Jerry Rhee asks: How best do you distinguish between these terms?  What settles … Continue reading →

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Signs Of Signs • 4

Posted on May 31, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Michael Harris • Language About Language But then inevitably I find myself wondering whether a proof assistant, or even a formal system, can make the distinction between “technical” and “fundamental” questions.  There seems to be no logical distinction.  The … Continue reading →

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Signs Of Signs • 3

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Michael Harris • Language About Language And if we don’t [keep our stories straight], who puts us away? One’s answer, or at least one’s initial response to that question will turn on how one feels about formal realities.  As … Continue reading →

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Signs Of Signs • 2

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Michael Harris • Language About Language I compared mathematics to a “consensual hallucination,” like virtual reality, and I continue to believe that the aim is to get (consensually) to the point where that hallucination is a second nature. I … Continue reading →

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Signs Of Signs • 1

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Michael Harris • Language About Language There is a language and a corresponding literature treating logic and mathematics as related species of communication and information gathering, namely, the pragmatic‑semiotic tradition transmitted through the lifelong efforts of C.S. Peirce.  It is … Continue reading →

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Six Ways of Looking at a Triadic Relation ⌬ 1

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

A triadic relation and its converses form a set of triadic relations all together, six grammatically and rhetorically distinct ways of representing what is logically the same information.  Peirce illustrates the situation as follows, with six variations on the theme … Continue reading →

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Semiotic Theory Of Information • 1

Posted on October 10, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

2014 Oct 06 On the subject of Peirce’s laws of information — or the semiotic theory of information — here are a few links that come to mind for possible future reference: Semiotic Information Information = Comprehension × Extension And … Continue reading →

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