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Survey of Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 3

Posted on April 2, 2023 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of blog and wiki posts on three elementary forms of inference, as recognized by a logical tradition extending from Aristotle through Charles S. Peirce.  Particular attention is paid to the way these inferential rudiments combine to … Continue reading →

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Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems • 4

Posted on August 12, 2022 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of blog and wiki resources on Inquiry Driven Systems, material I plan to refine toward a more compact and systematic treatment of the subject. An inquiry driven system is a system having among its state variables … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory • Discussion 10

Posted on April 11, 2022 by Jon Awbrey

Re: FB | Dan Everett • On the Origin of Symbols and the Descent of Signs Continuing a discussion on the generative power of symbols (1) (2) (3). If it’s true what I say about symbols being the genus of … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory • Discussion 9

Posted on April 9, 2022 by Jon Awbrey

Once, there was nothing there, nothing moving on its own, just data and people shuffling it around.  Then something happened, and it … it knew itself. William Gibson • Count Zero (1) (2) Re: FB | Dan Everett • On … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory • Discussion 8

Posted on April 8, 2022 by Jon Awbrey

Re: FB | Dan Everett • On the Origin of Symbols and the Descent of Signs Continuing a discussion on the primal character of symbols. There are a few passages from Peirce going most quickly to the root of the … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory • Discussion 7

Posted on April 5, 2022 by Jon Awbrey

Re: FB | Dan Everett • On the Origin of Symbols and the Descent of Signs A conversation with Dan Everett on Facebook led me to explain the following point about symbols a little better, or at least in fewer … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory • Discussion 6

Posted on March 1, 2022 by Jon Awbrey

Re: FB | Charles S. Peirce Society • Alain Létourneau Alain Létourneau asks if I have any thoughts on Peirce’s Rhetoric.  I venture the following. Classically speaking, rhetoric (as distinguished from dialectic) treats forms of argument which “consider the audience” … Continue reading →

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Triadic Relations • Discussion 3

Posted on December 6, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Triadic Relations • (1) • (2) • (3) Re: Conceptual Graphs • Edwina Taborsky ET: A few comments on your outline of the Sign.  I think one has to be careful not to set up a Saussurian linguistic dyad.  … Continue reading →

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Survey of Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • 2

Posted on December 2, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of blog and wiki resources on the theory of signs, variously known as semeiotic or semiotics, and the actions referred to as semiosis which transform signs among themselves in relation to their objects, all as based … Continue reading →

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Triadic Relations • 3

Posted on November 8, 2021 by Jon Awbrey

Triadic Relations • 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 … Continue reading →

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