Tag Archives: Semiotics

Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Discussion 15

Posted on January 15, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

A Comprehensile Tale Here’s a gloss on “comprehension” I copied from Runes some years ago, plus a bit of commentary I added at the time. Comprehension.  The sum of characteristics which connote a class notion symbolized by a general term.  … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Discussion 14

Posted on January 14, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Information = Comprehension × Extension Re: Systems Science • Kent Palmer It may be useful to clear up a couple of technical points about Peirce’s terminology before getting to the main business. Here I’m using extension and intension in … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Discussion 13

Posted on January 13, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Survey of Pragmatic Semiotic Information Re: Ontolog Forum • Joseph Simpson I’ve been looking at the record of past discussions and thinking about what I’d like to accomplish this year.  Just off hand, I see a lot of discussion … Continue reading →

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Survey of Pragmatic Semiotic Information • 4

Posted on January 8, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of previous blog and wiki posts on the Semiotic Theory Of Information.  All my projects are exploratory in essence but this line of inquiry is more open-ended than most.  The question is: What is information and how … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Discussion 12

Posted on January 2, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Peter Smith, on his Logic Matters blog, queried readers about the type/token distinction and its possible origins before Peirce.  I shared the following observations: It doesn’t help with the question of semiogenesis, which is no doubt lost to the mists … Continue reading →

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 25

Posted on December 30, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Artem Kaznatcheev • Reductionism : To Computer Science From Philosophy The sense of reduction operative in complexity theory has its roots in Aristotle’s απαγωγη, variously translated as abduction or reduction and sometimes glossed as retroduction by C.S. Peirce.  See my … Continue reading →

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Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • 3

Posted on December 11, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

For ease of reference, here are two variants of Peirce’s 1902 definition of a sign, which he gives in the process of defining logic. Selections from C.S. Peirce, “Carnegie Application” (1902) No. 12.  On the Definition of Logic Logic will … Continue reading →

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Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • 2

Posted on December 10, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Here are links to more complete discussions of semiotics. Sign Relations • OEIS Wiki • Wikiversity The approach described here develops from what I regard as the core definition of triadic sign relations, one explicit enough to support a consequential … Continue reading →

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Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • 1

Posted on December 9, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

A first mention of semiotics (and cybersemiotics) in a discussion group gave me a chance to begin a fresh introduction to the subject.  I thought it might be useful to share that here. Here’s the intro to Semiotics I wrote … Continue reading →

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Theme One • A Program Of Inquiry 17

Posted on December 7, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

The move is all over but the unpacking, and the time looks ripe to pick up the following thread from last spring.  Here, by way of a quick refresher, are a few Tables from earlier discussions. Theme One • A … Continue reading →

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