Cf: Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory • Discussion 6
http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2022/03/01/sign-relations-triadic-relations-r…
Re: FB | Charles S. Peirce Society
https://www.facebook.com/groups/peircesociety/posts/2551077815028195/
::: Alain Létourneau
https://www.facebook.com/groups/peircesociety/posts/2551077815028195?commen…
All,
Alain Létourneau asks if I have any thoughts
on Peirce's Rhetoric. I venture the following.
Classically speaking, rhetoric (as distinguished from dialectic)
treats forms of argument which “consider the audience” — which
take the condition of the addressee into account. But that is
just what Peirce's semiotic does in extending our theories of
signs from dyadic to triadic sign relations.
We often begin our approach to Peirce's semiotics by saying he puts the
interpreter back into the relation of signs to their objects. But even
Aristotle had already done that much. Peirce's innovation was to apply
the pragmatic maxim, clarifying the characters of interpreters in terms
of their effects — their interpretants — in the flow of semiosis.
Some reading —
Awbrey, J.L., and Awbrey, S.M. (1995),
“Interpretation as Action • The Risk of Inquiry”,
Inquiry : Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 15(1), 40–52.
https://www.academia.edu/57812482/Interpretation_as_Action_The_Risk_of_Inqu…
Regards,
Jon
Cf: Theme One Program • Discussion 10
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/04/17/theme-one-program-discussion-10/
Re: Mathstodon • Seamus Bradley
::: https://mathstodon.xyz/@Scmbradley/110198310724722597
<QUOTE SB:>
I thought of a programming language where every function
can only return one type: the return type. The return
type is just a wrapper around a struct that contains the
actual return value, but also a reference to the called
function and arguments, and possibly an error code.
</QUOTE>
My flashback —
Way back in the last millennium I started work on a programming style
I called an “idea processor”, where an “idea” is a pointer to a “form”
and a form is a minimal type of record containing 1 character, 1 number,
and 4 more ideas.
I implemented a functional style where all the main functions are transformations
of one or more ideas to a return idea. The principal data type is an “idea-form flag”
which serves a role analogous to a “cons cell” in Lisp.
Here's one entry point —
Theme One Program • Exposition 1
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2022/06/15/theme-one-program-exposition-1-2/
Regards,
Jon ( https://mathstodon.xyz/@Inquiry )
Cf: Survey of Definition and Determination • 2
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/04/06/survey-of-definition-and-determin…
All,
In the early 1990s, “in the middle of life's journey” as the saying goes,
I returned to grad school in a systems engineering program with the idea
of taking a more systems-theoretic approach to my development of Peircean
themes, from signs and scientific inquiry to logic and information theory.
Two of the first questions calling for fresh examination were the closely
related concepts of definition and determination, not only as Peirce used
them in his logic and semiotics but as researchers in areas as diverse as
computer science, cybernetics, physics, and systems sciences were finding
themselves forced to reconsider the concepts in later years. That led me
to collect a sample of texts where Peirce and a few other writers discuss
the issues of definition and determination. There are copies of those
selections at the following sites.
Collection Of Source Materials
• https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey/EXCERPTS
Excerpts on Definition
• https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey/EXCERPTS#Definition
Excerpts on Determination
• https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey/EXCERPTS#Determination
What follows is a Survey of blog and wiki posts on Definition and Determination,
with a focus on the part they play in Peirce's interlinked theories of signs,
information, and inquiry. In classical logical traditions the concepts of
definition and determination are closely related and their bond acquires
all the more force when we view the overarching concept of constraint
from an information-theoretic point of view, as Peirce did beginning
in the 1860s.
Regards,
Jon
https://mathstodon.xyz/@Inquiry
