Tag Archives: Relation Theory

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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Relation Theory • Discussion 1

Posted on May 18, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Cybernetics • Arthur Phillips Responding to what I’ll abductively interpret as a plea for relevance from the cybernetic galley, let me give a quick review of where we are in this many-oared expedition. Our reading of Ashby (see Survey … Continue reading →

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Survey of Relation Theory • 4

Posted on May 15, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

In this Survey of blog and wiki posts on Relation Theory, relations are viewed from the perspective of combinatorics, in other words, as a topic in discrete mathematics, with special attention to finite structures and concrete set-theoretic constructions, many of … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s Categories • 20

Posted on May 14, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce’s Categories • 15 Understanding another person’s thought can be difficult.  Understanding the way another understands a third person’s thought, all the more so, even if that third person is not so formidable a thinker as Charles Sanders Peirce.  Measures of … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s Categories • 19

Posted on May 13, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce’s Categories • 15 Another point where the onrush of discussion and the impact of worldly distractions caused my train of thought to jump the track is here: Peirce List (1) (2) • RM • JA RM: First I … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s Categories • 18

Posted on May 12, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce’s Categories • 15 In These Uncertain Times, as people keep saying, it’s become even harder to concentrate than usual and I keep losing track of tricky points coming up in discussion which cry out for further discussion but … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s Categories • 17

Posted on May 7, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

I’ve been too immersed in the Peirce List discussion of Robert Marty’s “Podium” paper to write much here — before I lose track of what I’ve been thinking the last several days I’ll need to ravel up my off-the-cuff remarks … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s Categories • 16

Posted on May 4, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce’s Categories • 15 Re: Robert Marty • The Podium of the Universal Categories of C.S. Peirce A feature of particular interest to me in Robert Marty’s paper is the resonance he finds between category theory, as it’s known in … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s Categories • 15

Posted on May 1, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Robert Marty RM: I submit for your review this preprint which is awaiting publication: The Podium of the Universal Categories of C.S. Peirce Abstract This article organizes Peirce’s universal categories and their degenerate forms from their presupposition … Continue reading →

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Readings On Determination • Discussion 4

Posted on April 29, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Gary Fuhrman Determination, along with the related concepts of constraint, definition, form, structure, etc., are subjects of recurring discussion.  Here are links to readings I collected back when I began approaching inference, information, inquiry, logic, sign processes, … Continue reading →

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