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Theme One Program • Motivation 3

Posted on June 5, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Sometime around 1970 John B. Eulenberg came from Stanford to direct Michigan State’s Artificial Language Lab, where I would come to spend many interesting hours hanging out all through the 70s and 80s.  Along with its research program the lab … Continue reading →

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Theme One Program • Motivation 2

Posted on June 4, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

A side‑effect of working on the Theme One program over the course of a decade was the measure of insight it gave me into the reasons why empiricists and rationalists have so much trouble understanding each other, even when those … Continue reading →

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Theme One Program • Motivation 1

Posted on June 3, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

The main idea behind the Theme One program is the efficient use of graph-theoretic data structures for the tasks of “learning” and “reasoning”. I am thinking of learning in the sense of learning about an environment, in essence, gaining information about … Continue reading →

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Survey of Precursors Of Category Theory • 5

Posted on May 24, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

A few years ago I began a sketch on the “Precursors of Category Theory”, tracing the continuities of the category concept from Aristotle, to Kant and Peirce, through Hilbert and Ackermann, to contemporary mathematical practice.  A Survey of resources on … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s 1885 “Algebra of Logic” • Discussion 2

Posted on April 3, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Re: FB | Daniel Everett One thing I’ve been trying to understand for a very long time is the changes in Peirce’s writing about math and logic from 1865 to 1885.  If there’s anything I’ve learned from reading Peirce in … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s 1885 “Algebra of Logic” • Discussion 1

Posted on April 2, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Re: FB | Daniel Everett DE: One of the most important papers in the history of logic.  “On the Algebra of Logic” was the first to introduce the term “quantifier”. Peirce, C.S. (1885), “On the Algebra of Logic : A … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s 1885 “Algebra of Logic” • Selection 4

Posted on April 1, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Selection from C.S. Peirce, “On the Algebra of Logic : A Contribution to the Philosophy of Notation” (1885) §1.  Three Kinds Of Signs (concl.) In this paper, I purpose to develop an algebra adequate to the treatment of all problems … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s 1885 “Algebra of Logic” • Selection 3

Posted on March 30, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Selection from C.S. Peirce, “On the Algebra of Logic : A Contribution to the Philosophy of Notation” (1885) §1.  Three Kinds Of Signs (cont.) For instance, take the syllogistic formula, This is really a diagram of the relations of and … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s 1885 “Algebra of Logic” • Selection 2

Posted on March 26, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Selection from C.S. Peirce, “On the Algebra of Logic : A Contribution to the Philosophy of Notation” (1885) §1.  Three Kinds Of Signs (cont.) I have taken pains to make my distinction of icons, indices, and tokens clear, in order … Continue reading →

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Peirce’s 1885 “Algebra of Logic” • Selection 1

Posted on March 24, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Selection from C.S. Peirce, “On the Algebra of Logic : A Contribution to the Philosophy of Notation” (1885) §1.  Three Kinds Of Signs Any character or proposition either concerns one subject, two subjects, or a plurality of subjects.  For example, … Continue reading →

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