Tag Archives: Semiotics

Theory and Therapy of Representations • 2

Posted on December 19, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

December 19, 2011 In a complex society, people making decisions and taking actions at places remote from you have the power to affect your life in significant ways.  Those people govern your life, they are your government, no matter what … Continue reading →

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Time, Topology, Differential Logic • 6

Posted on November 30, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Edwina Taborsky • John Sowa • Jon Awbrey • Jeff Downard Let me see if I can get back in the saddle on this topic, the dormitive virtues of tryptophan and a few pounds added notwithstanding. … Continue reading →

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Peirce and Democracy • 1

Posted on November 23, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Gary Richmond • Jon Awbrey In my mind the connection between Peirce and Democracy has long revolved around the concept of representation. Representation in its semiotic sense has to do with signs that represent pragmatic objects … Continue reading →

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Time, Topology, Differential Logic • 5

Posted on November 19, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

And the founder, having shod a plough with a brazen ploughshare, and having yoked to it a bull and a cow, himself drove a deep furrow round the boundary lines, while those who followed after him had to turn the … Continue reading →

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Time, Topology, Differential Logic • 4

Posted on November 15, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • JFS • JA JA: Trying to understand inquiry and semiosis in general as temporal processes is one of the things that forced me to develop differential logic as an extension of propositional logic, for which … Continue reading →

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Time, Topology, Differential Logic • 3

Posted on November 14, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • JA Worldly events are interfering with my concentration quite a bit this week, perhaps for days to come, but it does help to immerse myself in work.  I am starting a blog series to follow … Continue reading →

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Time, Topology, Differential Logic • 2

Posted on November 13, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • JBD • JA • JA Topology is the most general study of geometric space.  It is critical here to get beyond the “popular” accounts and learn the basics from a real math book.  A classic … Continue reading →

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Time, Topology, Differential Logic • 1

Posted on November 11, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

The clock indicates the moment . . . . but what does eternity indicate? Walt Whitman • Leaves of Grass Re: Peirce List • ET • JFS • JA Trying to understand inquiry in particular and semiosis in general as … Continue reading →

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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Comment 6

Posted on October 28, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Note.  This is a placeholder, to be developed later. Figure 2 shows the implication ordering of logical terms in the form of a lattice diagram. Figure 2. Disjunctive Term u, Taken as Subject Reference Peirce, C.S. (1866), “The Logic of … Continue reading →

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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Comment 5

Posted on September 30, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Let’s stay with Peirce’s example of abductive inference a little longer and try to clear up the more troublesome confusions tending to arise. Figure 1 shows the implication ordering of logical terms in the form of a lattice diagram. Figure … Continue reading →

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