Tag Archives: Spencer Brown

Animated Logical Graphs • 3

Posted on January 26, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Helmut Raulien I have a little more leisure now to start climbing back into the saddle, so let me see where we left off … Try looking into the article I linked before: Logical Graphs Or … Continue reading →

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Animated Logical Graphs • 2

Posted on January 14, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Jim Willgoose It’s almost 50 years now since I first encountered the volumes of Peirce’s Collected Papers in the math library at Michigan State, and shortly afterwards a friend called my attention to the entry for … Continue reading →

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Animated Logical Graphs • 1

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

For Your Musement … Here are some animations I made up to illustrate several different styles of proof in an extended topological variant of Peirce’s Alpha Graphs for propositional logic. ☞ Proof Animations See the following article for a full … Continue reading →

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All Process, No Paradox • 6

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Re: R.J. Lipton • Anti-Social Networks Re: Lou Kauffman • Iterants, Imaginaries, Matrices Comments I made elsewhere about computer science and (anti-)social networks have a connection with the work in progress on this thread, so it may steal a march … Continue reading →

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All Process, No Paradox • 5

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

In the midst of this strife, whereat the halls of Ilúvatar shook and a tremor ran out into the silences yet unmoved, Ilúvatar arose a third time, and his face was terrible to behold.  Then he raised up both his … Continue reading →

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All Process, No Paradox • 4

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Thus began the Days of the Bliss of Valinor; and thus began also the Count of Time. Tolkien • Quenta Silmarillion While looking for something else on the web, I ran across an old note I had written in reply … Continue reading →

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All Process, No Paradox • 3

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Consider what effects that might conceivably have practical bearings you conceive the objects of your conception to have.  Then, your conception of those effects is the whole of your conception of the object. Charles S. Peirce • “Issues of Pragmaticism” … Continue reading →

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All Process, No Paradox • 2

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

These are the forms of time, which imitates eternity and revolves according to a law of number. Plato • Timaeus Re: Lou Kauffman • Iterants, Imaginaries, Matrices As serendipity would have it, Lou Kauffman, who knows a lot about the … Continue reading →

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All Process, No Paradox • 1

Posted on January 13, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down. Tolkien • The Hobbit Talking about time is a waste of time.  Time … Continue reading →

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Alpha Now, Omega Later • 7

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • Theorems From Physics? In a way, the relation between “physics space” and “information space” is one of the topics I address in my work on inquiry driven systems.  Here is a pertinent place in … Continue reading →

Posted in C.S. Peirce, Differential Logic, Dynamical Systems, Equational Inference, Laws of Form, Logic, Logical Graphs, Mathematics, Propositional Calculus, Semiotics, Sign Relations, Spencer Brown | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments