Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations
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Jon Awbrey
Nov 25, 2018, 9:28:33 AM11/25/18
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A first mention of semiotics (and cybersemiotics) in another group afforded me a chance to begin a fresh introduction to the area. Then I thought it might be useful to share that here.
InterSciWiki
http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/Semeiotic
Wikiversity
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Semeiotic
Folks already registered on Wikipedia would find it easy to use the talk page on Wikiversity if they wanted to engage in additional discussion there.
Regards,
Jon
Jon Awbrey
Nov 25, 2018, 11:16:15 AM11/25/18
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Here are links to fuller discussions of semiotics.
InterSciWiki
http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/Sign_relation
Wikiversity
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Sign_relation
The approach described here is based on what I regard as the core definition of sign relations, one explicit enough to support a consequential theory of signs.
C.S. Peirce • On the Definition of Logic (as depending on the definition of a sign)
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/06/01/c-s-peirce-•-on-the-definition-of-logic/
C.S. Peirce • Logic as Semiotic
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/06/04/c-s-peirce-•-logic-as-semiotic/
Regards,
Jon
Nadin, Mihai
Nov 25, 2018, 4:15:26 PM11/25/18
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The sign domain is the representamen domain. Peirce was fussy about terminology. The sign is the unity of the 3 domains (object, representamen, interpretant).
Mihai Nadin
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Jon Awbrey
Nov 25, 2018, 6:45:35 PM11/25/18
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Dear Mihai,
Peirce sometimes fussed over that term but more often not. The shorter word will serve us well enough as it did him and it has the benefit of being far less off-putting.
The more important thing is to understand triadic sign relations as a defined species of triadic relations, which are in turn a species of mathematical relations denoted by relative terms.
For a taste of how Peirce treated the logic of relative terms see my discussion of his 1870 Logic Of Relatives, which is where I first cut my teeth on the subject. Historically speaking this is also where we got our
first real breakthrough in reasoning about the mathematics of relations.
Peirce’s 1870 Logic Of Relatives
http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/Peirce%27s_1870_Logic_Of_Relatives
Regards,
Jon
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Jon Awbrey
Nov 28, 2018, 5:35:04 PM11/28/18
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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.
C.S. Peirce • On the Definition of Logic
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/06/01/c-s-peirce-•-on-the-definition-of-logic/
Selections from C.S. Peirce, “Carnegie Application” (1902)
No. 12. On the Definition of Logic
Logic will here be defined as formal semiotic. A definition of a sign will be given which no more refers to human thought than does the definition of a line as the place which a particle occupies, part by part, during a lapse of time. Namely, a sign is something, A, which brings something, B, its interpretant sign determined or created by it, into the same sort of correspondence with something, C, its object, as that in which itself stands to C. It is from this definition, together with a definition of “formal”, that I deduce mathematically the principles of logic. I also make a historical review of all the definitions and conceptions of logic, and show, not merely that my definition is no novelty, but that my non-psychological conception of logic has virtually been quite generally held, though not generally recognized. (NEM 4, 20–21).
No. 12. On the Definition of Logic [Earlier Draft]
Logic is formal semiotic. A sign is something, A, which brings something, B, its interpretant sign, determined or created by it, into the same sort of correspondence (or a lower implied sort) with something, C, its object, as that in which itself stands to C. This definition no more involves any reference to human thought than does the definition of a line as the place within which a particle lies during a lapse of time. It is from this definition that I deduce the principles of logic by mathematical reasoning, and by mathematical reasoning that, I aver, will support criticism of Weierstrassian severity, and that is perfectly evident. The word “formal” in the definition is also defined. (NEM 4, 54).
Charles S. Peirce (1902), “Parts of Carnegie Application” (L 75), published in Carolyn Eisele (ed., 1976), The New Elements of Mathematics by Charles S. Peirce, vol. 4, 13–73. Online.
C.S. Peirce • On the Definition of Logic
Selections from C.S. Peirce, “Carnegie Application” (1902)
No. 12. On the Definition of Logic
Logic will here be defined as formal semiotic. A definition of a sign will be given which no more refers to human thought than does the definition of a line as the place which a particle occupies, part by part, during a lapse of time. Namely, a sign is something, A, which brings something, B, its interpretant sign determined or created by it, into the same sort of correspondence with something, C, its object, as that in which itself stands to C. It is from this definition, together with a definition of “formal”, that I deduce mathematically the principles of logic. I also make a historical review of all the definitions and conceptions of logic, and show, not merely that my definition is no novelty, but that my non-psychological conception of logic has virtually been quite generally held, though not generally recognized. (NEM 4, 20–21).
No. 12. On the Definition of Logic [Earlier Draft]
Logic is formal semiotic. A sign is something, A, which brings something, B, its interpretant sign, determined or created by it, into the same sort of correspondence (or a lower implied sort) with something, C, its object, as that in which itself stands to C. This definition no more involves any reference to human thought than does the definition of a line as the place within which a particle lies during a lapse of time. It is from this definition that I deduce the principles of logic by mathematical reasoning, and by mathematical reasoning that, I aver, will support criticism of Weierstrassian severity, and that is perfectly evident. The word “formal” in the definition is also defined. (NEM 4, 54).
Charles S. Peirce (1902), “Parts of Carnegie Application” (L 75), published in Carolyn Eisele (ed., 1976), The New Elements of Mathematics by Charles S. Peirce, vol. 4, 13–73. Online.
Jon Awbrey
Dec 9, 2018, 11:22:19 AM12/9/18
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Dear Mihai, All —
It's possible my previous reply was succinct to a fault,
but it did give the gist of a well-considered choice of
terms, one that Peirce made on many occasions and maybe
even in the end.
Peirce invented the term “representamen” as a part of his
“non-psychlogical” program to detach logic and the concept
of a sign from their traditional embedding in psychological
material where signs are interpreted by mental ideas in the
mind, psyche, or soul of their interpretive agent. That is
a reasonable rhetorical strategy, at least in the beginning.
Another tactic, one often seen in the history of mathematics, is simply
to generalize the meaning of the original term, achieving the required
precision by attaching the definition that befits the context in view.
Peirce used both tactics on different occasions and for different audiences.
A fair sample of the full variorum can be found in the Commens Dictionary:
Representamen
http://www.commens.org/dictionary/term/representamen
Regards,
Jon
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It's possible my previous reply was succinct to a fault,
but it did give the gist of a well-considered choice of
terms, one that Peirce made on many occasions and maybe
even in the end.
Peirce invented the term “representamen” as a part of his
“non-psychlogical” program to detach logic and the concept
of a sign from their traditional embedding in psychological
material where signs are interpreted by mental ideas in the
mind, psyche, or soul of their interpretive agent. That is
a reasonable rhetorical strategy, at least in the beginning.
Another tactic, one often seen in the history of mathematics, is simply
to generalize the meaning of the original term, achieving the required
precision by attaching the definition that befits the context in view.
Peirce used both tactics on different occasions and for different audiences.
A fair sample of the full variorum can be found in the Commens Dictionary:
Representamen
http://www.commens.org/dictionary/term/representamen
Regards,
Jon
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Jon Awbrey
Apr 30, 2019, 9:02:19 AM4/30/19
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Questions about the nature of concepts and their action in sign relations
arose in discussions elsewhere, prompting me to pick up this thread again.
Here is the context:
Re: Semiotic Triangle
At: https://www.academia.edu/s/82ada7ef2e/semiotic-triangle-zero-update-2-0
Re: John Corcoran
At: https://www.facebook.com/groups/peircesociety/permalink/1569171163218870
Here is my comment:
Cf: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations ??? 4
At: https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2019/04/29/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-%e2%80%a2-4/
Concepts for Peirce are mental symbols, so they fall under the general designation
of signs. For triadic sign relations in general, then, we are considering a triadic
relation among objects of signs, signs of objects, and what Peirce calls interpretant
signs, or interpretants for short. It is critical to regard the designations of objects,
signs, and interpretants as relational roles not ontological essences. It is also critical
to distinguish (a) extended sign relations, (b) elementary sign relations, (c) the slots of
an ordered triple, and (d) the things that fill those slots.
Triangles like the one linked above have long been used to introduce the idea of
a triadic sign relation. They have the unintended consequence, however, of leading
people to miss all the points I mentioned above. So it's wise to move quickly on to
better pictures and more detailed descriptions.
Regards,
Jon
arose in discussions elsewhere, prompting me to pick up this thread again.
Here is the context:
Re: Semiotic Triangle
At: https://www.academia.edu/s/82ada7ef2e/semiotic-triangle-zero-update-2-0
Re: John Corcoran
At: https://www.facebook.com/groups/peircesociety/permalink/1569171163218870
Here is my comment:
Cf: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations ??? 4
At: https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2019/04/29/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-%e2%80%a2-4/
Concepts for Peirce are mental symbols, so they fall under the general designation
of signs. For triadic sign relations in general, then, we are considering a triadic
relation among objects of signs, signs of objects, and what Peirce calls interpretant
signs, or interpretants for short. It is critical to regard the designations of objects,
signs, and interpretants as relational roles not ontological essences. It is also critical
to distinguish (a) extended sign relations, (b) elementary sign relations, (c) the slots of
an ordered triple, and (d) the things that fill those slots.
Triangles like the one linked above have long been used to introduce the idea of
a triadic sign relation. They have the unintended consequence, however, of leading
people to miss all the points I mentioned above. So it's wise to move quickly on to
better pictures and more detailed descriptions.
Regards,
Jon
Jon Awbrey
Oct 26, 2019, 3:05:13 PM10/26/19
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Cf: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations : 5
At: https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2019/10/26/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-%e2%80%a2-5/
Re: Recursion Again
At: https://richardcoyne.com/2019/10/26/recursion-again/
A recurring correction of a recurring mistake:
It's a common mistake to confound infinite with unbounded.
A process can continue without end and still be "bounded
in a nutshell". So a sign process can pass from sign to
interpretant sign to next interpretant sign ad infinitum
without ever leaving a finite set of signs.
So let that be the end of that.
Regards,
Jon
At: https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2019/10/26/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-%e2%80%a2-5/
Re: Recursion Again
At: https://richardcoyne.com/2019/10/26/recursion-again/
A recurring correction of a recurring mistake:
It's a common mistake to confound infinite with unbounded.
A process can continue without end and still be "bounded
in a nutshell". So a sign process can pass from sign to
interpretant sign to next interpretant sign ad infinitum
without ever leaving a finite set of signs.
So let that be the end of that.
Regards,
Jon
Jon Awbrey
Oct 30, 2019, 2:36:43 PM10/30/19
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Cf: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations : 4
At: https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2019/04/29/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-%e2%80%a2-4/
All,
Questions about the use of "semiotic triangles" and/or "semiotic triskelia"
to represent triadic sign relations have come up again, as they often do
in the wider world, prompting me to revisit an earlier comment on the
subject and tri, tri again to render the issues as clear as I can,
otherwise we appear doomed never to get off triangle one.
Re: Semiotic Triangle
1 : https://www.academia.edu/s/82ada7ef2e/semiotic-triangle-zero-update-2-0
2 : https://www.academia.edu/34149912/Semiotic_Triangle_Charting_the_expression-sense-reference_distinction
Re: John Corcoran
At: https://www.facebook.com/groups/peircesociety/permalink/1569171163218870/
At: https://www.facebook.com/groups/peircesociety/permalink/1735601909909127/
Concepts for Peirce are mental symbols, so they fall under the general
designation of signs. For triadic sign relations in general, then, we
are dealing with a triadic relation among (1) "objects" of signs, (2)
"signs" of objects, and (3) what Peirce calls "interpretant signs", or
"interpretants" for short. It is critical to regard the 3 designations
* The extended sign relation L as a subset of a cartesian product O x S x I,
* The elementary sign relation as an ordered triple (o, s, i) in O x S x I,
* The places forming an ordered triple (o, s, i),
* The elements o, s, i filling those places.
Triangles like the one linked above have long been used to introduce the
idea of a triadic sign relation. They have the unintended consequence,
however, of leading people to miss all the points I mentioned above.
So it's wise to move quickly on to better pictures and more detailed
descriptions.
Resources
=========
* Survey of Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations
* https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2019/10/29/survey-of-semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-%e2%80%a2-1/
At: https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2019/04/29/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-%e2%80%a2-4/
All,
Questions about the use of "semiotic triangles" and/or "semiotic triskelia"
to represent triadic sign relations have come up again, as they often do
in the wider world, prompting me to revisit an earlier comment on the
subject and tri, tri again to render the issues as clear as I can,
otherwise we appear doomed never to get off triangle one.
Re: Semiotic Triangle
1 : https://www.academia.edu/s/82ada7ef2e/semiotic-triangle-zero-update-2-0
2 : https://www.academia.edu/34149912/Semiotic_Triangle_Charting_the_expression-sense-reference_distinction
Re: John Corcoran
At: https://www.facebook.com/groups/peircesociety/permalink/1569171163218870/
At: https://www.facebook.com/groups/peircesociety/permalink/1735601909909127/
Concepts for Peirce are mental symbols, so they fall under the general
designation of signs. For triadic sign relations in general, then, we
"signs" of objects, and (3) what Peirce calls "interpretant signs", or
"interpretants" for short. It is critical to regard the 3 designations
of objects, signs, and interpretants as relational roles not ontological
essences. It is also critical to distinguish the following things:
* The extended sign relation L as a subset of a cartesian product O x S x I,
* The elementary sign relation as an ordered triple (o, s, i) in O x S x I,
* The places forming an ordered triple (o, s, i),
* The elements o, s, i filling those places.
Triangles like the one linked above have long been used to introduce the
idea of a triadic sign relation. They have the unintended consequence,
however, of leading people to miss all the points I mentioned above.
So it's wise to move quickly on to better pictures and more detailed
descriptions.
=========
* Survey of Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations
* https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2019/10/29/survey-of-semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-%e2%80%a2-1/
John F. Sowa
Oct 30, 2019, 3:16:03 PM10/30/19
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Jon,
JA> It's a common mistake to confound infinite with unbounded. A process can continue without end and still be "bounded in a nutshell". So a sign process can pass from sign to interpretant sign to next interpretant sign ad infinitum without ever leaving a finite set of signs.
That's not a mistake. It's the definition of countably infinite: I'm sure you know that, but it's important to state the definition in a way that distinguishes countably infinite sets (e.g., the integers) from uncountable sets (e.g., the real numbers).
The set of integers is countably infinite. Therefore, any set of integers that you can reach by counting is always finite. But the last sentence above is confusing because it's impossible to count "ad infinitum". However, you could specify an ordering of the integers that could produce an infinite set if you could run the machine "ad infinitum".
The real numbers are uncountably infinite. If you tried to count them, as you would with the integers, you could only get a finite set. And even if you had a machine that could run "ad infinitum", you could only get a countable subset. You could never get all the real numbers.
John
doug foxvog
Oct 30, 2019, 4:04:19 PM10/30/19
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On Wed, October 30, 2019 15:16, John F. Sowa wrote:
> Jon,
>
> JA> It's a common mistake to confound infinite with unbounded.
> A process can continue without end and still be "bounded in a nutshell".
In the real world, of course, no process can continue without end.
> Jon,
>
> JA> It's a common mistake to confound infinite with unbounded.
> A process can continue without end and still be "bounded in a nutshell".
Infinities can be bounded in a nutshell. Just imagine that the worm in
the center of a coconut eats its way halfway to the shell each second.
The worm's physical travel has an infinite number of steps and is bounded.
> So a sign process can pass from sign to interpretant sign to next
> interpretant sign ad infinitum without ever leaving a finite set of
> signs.
> countably infinite:Â I'm sure you know that, but it's important to state
> the definition in a way that distinguishes countably infinite sets (e.g.,
> the integers) from uncountable sets (e.g., the real
> numbers).
>
> The set of integers is countably infinite.
> Therefore, any set of integers that you can reach by counting is always
> finite. But the last sentence above is confusing because it's
> impossible
> to count "ad infinitum". However, you could specify an ordering
> of the integers that could produce an infinite set if you could run the
> machine "ad infinitum".
The same with the rational numbers, which are countably infinite.
> the integers) from uncountable sets (e.g., the real
> numbers).
>
> The set of integers is countably infinite.
> Therefore, any set of integers that you can reach by counting is always
> finite. But the last sentence above is confusing because it's
> impossible
> to count "ad infinitum". However, you could specify an ordering
> of the integers that could produce an infinite set if you could run the
> machine "ad infinitum".
> The real numbers are
> uncountably infinite. If you tried to count them, as you would with the
> integers, you could only get a finite set. And even if you had a machine
> that could run "ad infinitum", you could only get a countable
> subset. You could never get all the real numbers.
identify a irrational real number by listing all its digits. One can only
identify one by specifying an equation with arguments being named rational
numbers and named irrationals. One could design an ordering of the
identifiable real numbers so that for any one identified, its position in
the ordering could be identified.
-- doug
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Jon Awbrey
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Cf : Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations : 7
At : http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2019/11/07/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-%e2%80%a2-7/
Re: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations : 5
At: https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2019/10/26/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-%e2%80%a2-5/
Re: It's a common mistake to confound infinite with unbounded.
have delineated the context in which it was set a little more fully.
A "sign process" in this context is simply a sequence of signs, of the
sort we might observe in communicational, computational, or experimental
settings. For people who remember the more ancient arts of AI, cognitive
science, and cybernetics, it may help to recall the orders of considerations
arising in protocol analysis.
It goes with this territory to assume the formal equivalent of "categorical
perception". This means we can set aside the subtleties of token haecceity --
the fact each instance of a sign is distinct from every other instance --
along with the possibility of signs being sampled from a continuous medium.
In this setting we are left with two interpretations for "infinite and bounded",
depending on whether the sign domain has a quantitative measure defined on it,
or not. In the first case, "bounded" means the sequence never exceeds a finite
bound in the relevant measure. In the second case, "bounded" means the sequence
never leaves a finite set.
Regards,
Jon
At : http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2019/11/07/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-%e2%80%a2-7/
Re: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations : 5
At: https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2019/10/26/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-%e2%80%a2-5/
Re: It's a common mistake to confound infinite with unbounded.
A process can continue without end and still be "bounded
in a nutshell". So a sign process can pass from sign to
interpretant sign to next interpretant sign ad infinitum
without ever leaving a finite set of signs.
The number of questions I got about that statement tells me I should
in a nutshell". So a sign process can pass from sign to
interpretant sign to next interpretant sign ad infinitum
without ever leaving a finite set of signs.
have delineated the context in which it was set a little more fully.
A "sign process" in this context is simply a sequence of signs, of the
sort we might observe in communicational, computational, or experimental
settings. For people who remember the more ancient arts of AI, cognitive
science, and cybernetics, it may help to recall the orders of considerations
arising in protocol analysis.
It goes with this territory to assume the formal equivalent of "categorical
perception". This means we can set aside the subtleties of token haecceity --
the fact each instance of a sign is distinct from every other instance --
along with the possibility of signs being sampled from a continuous medium.
In this setting we are left with two interpretations for "infinite and bounded",
depending on whether the sign domain has a quantitative measure defined on it,
or not. In the first case, "bounded" means the sequence never exceeds a finite
bound in the relevant measure. In the second case, "bounded" means the sequence
never leaves a finite set.
Regards,
Jon
Jon Awbrey
Nov 9, 2019, 1:02:38 PM11/9/19
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Cf: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations : 8
At: http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2019/11/09/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-%e2%80%a2-8/
Continuing questions about "infinite semiosis" vs. "unbounded semiosis"
prompt me to make another comment by way of bringing our focus to bear
on the empirical context of semiosis and sign relations.
The semiotic question goes back to a line from Peirce and the uses later
writers like Eco and Derrida made of it. But the real issue is not about
the cardinality or topology of any sub-posed continuum, "signiferous ether",
or semiotic medium so much as the empirical data streams we actually have,
which are captured categorically and coded discretely as sequences of signs.
Regards,
Jon
At: http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2019/11/09/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-%e2%80%a2-8/
Continuing questions about "infinite semiosis" vs. "unbounded semiosis"
prompt me to make another comment by way of bringing our focus to bear
on the empirical context of semiosis and sign relations.
The semiotic question goes back to a line from Peirce and the uses later
writers like Eco and Derrida made of it. But the real issue is not about
the cardinality or topology of any sub-posed continuum, "signiferous ether",
or semiotic medium so much as the empirical data streams we actually have,
which are captured categorically and coded discretely as sequences of signs.
Regards,
Jon
Jon Awbrey
Apr 13, 2020, 9:54:18 AM4/13/20
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Cf: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • 9
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All,
Just a note to record this citation by Jon Alan Schmidt of an important theme in Peirce.
It touches on one of those recurring questions which has come up time and again on the
Peirce List over the last 20 years, more acutely in recent Facebook discussions about
"universes of discourse", and more obliquely in the Ontolog Forum in connection with
the AI-CogSci-DataBase issue of "open vs. closed worlds". In another life I might
have mentioned the Central Limit Theorem at this point as that would have brought
us nearer Peirce's core insight into the matter, but maybe another time ...
Jon Alan Schmidt wrote:
<QUOTE>
Every proposition is collective and copulative; as I stated in a recent post (
https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2020-03/msg00028.html ) , its dynamical object is “the entire universe” (CP
5.448n, EP 2:394, 1906), which is “the totality of all real objects” (CP 5.152, EP 2:209, 1903), while its immediate
object is “the logical universe of discourse” (CP 2.323, EP 2:283, 1903).
</QUOTE>
Thanks are due to JAS for calling attention to a critical point. I'm occupied with another train of thought at the
moment so I'll just stop to flag it for a later discussion. Incidentally, or synchronistically, lack of care in
distinguishing different objects of the same signs, in particular, immediate and ultimate objects and their
corresponding universes or object domains, has been the source of many misunderstandings in scattered discussions on
Facebook of late.
Another issue arising here has to do with the difference between the “dimensionality of a relation” and the “number of
correlates”. Signs may have any number of correlates in the object domain without requiring the dimensionality of the
relevant sign relation to be greater than three. This is one of the consequences of “triadic relation irreducibility”.
Resources
=========
Logic Syllabus
( https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/logic-syllabus/ )
Semeiotic
( https://oeis.org/wiki/Semeiotic )
Universe of Discourse
( https://oeis.org/wiki/Universe_of_discourse )
Peirce’s 1870 Logic Of Relatives
( https://oeis.org/wiki/Peirce%27s_1870_Logic_Of_Relatives )
Sign Relation
( https://oeis.org/wiki/Sign_relation )
Triadic Relation
( https://oeis.org/wiki/Triadic_relation )
Relation Theory
( https://oeis.org/wiki/Relation_theory )
Relation Reduction
( https://oeis.org/wiki/Relation_reduction )
Regards,
Jon
inquiry into inquiry: https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/
academia: https://independent.academia.edu/JonAwbrey
oeiswiki: https://www.oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey
facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/JonnyCache
At: http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/04/12/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-%e2%80%a2-9/
All,
Just a note to record this citation by Jon Alan Schmidt of an important theme in Peirce.
It touches on one of those recurring questions which has come up time and again on the
Peirce List over the last 20 years, more acutely in recent Facebook discussions about
"universes of discourse", and more obliquely in the Ontolog Forum in connection with
the AI-CogSci-DataBase issue of "open vs. closed worlds". In another life I might
have mentioned the Central Limit Theorem at this point as that would have brought
us nearer Peirce's core insight into the matter, but maybe another time ...
Jon Alan Schmidt wrote:
<QUOTE>
Every proposition is collective and copulative; as I stated in a recent post (
https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2020-03/msg00028.html ) , its dynamical object is “the entire universe” (CP
5.448n, EP 2:394, 1906), which is “the totality of all real objects” (CP 5.152, EP 2:209, 1903), while its immediate
object is “the logical universe of discourse” (CP 2.323, EP 2:283, 1903).
</QUOTE>
Thanks are due to JAS for calling attention to a critical point. I'm occupied with another train of thought at the
moment so I'll just stop to flag it for a later discussion. Incidentally, or synchronistically, lack of care in
distinguishing different objects of the same signs, in particular, immediate and ultimate objects and their
corresponding universes or object domains, has been the source of many misunderstandings in scattered discussions on
Facebook of late.
Another issue arising here has to do with the difference between the “dimensionality of a relation” and the “number of
correlates”. Signs may have any number of correlates in the object domain without requiring the dimensionality of the
relevant sign relation to be greater than three. This is one of the consequences of “triadic relation irreducibility”.
Resources
=========
Logic Syllabus
( https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/logic-syllabus/ )
Semeiotic
( https://oeis.org/wiki/Semeiotic )
Universe of Discourse
( https://oeis.org/wiki/Universe_of_discourse )
Peirce’s 1870 Logic Of Relatives
Sign Relation
( https://oeis.org/wiki/Sign_relation )
Triadic Relation
( https://oeis.org/wiki/Triadic_relation )
Relation Theory
( https://oeis.org/wiki/Relation_theory )
Relation Reduction
( https://oeis.org/wiki/Relation_reduction )
Regards,
Jon
inquiry into inquiry: https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/
academia: https://independent.academia.edu/JonAwbrey
oeiswiki: https://www.oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey
Jon Awbrey
Aug 9, 2021, 12:40:36 PM8/9/21
to Cybernetic Communications, Laws of Form, Ontolog Forum, Peirce List, Structural Modeling, SysSciWG
Cf: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Comment 1
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/09/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-comment-1/
All,
I opened a topic on Sign Relations in the Logic stream of
Category Theory Zulipchat to work on Peirce's theory of
triadic sign relations in a category-theoretic framework.
Invitation Link
https://categorytheory.zulipchat.com/join/jsvtolybonggfwxiodsktbkz/
Topic Link
https://categorytheory.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/233104-theory.3A-logic/topic/sign.20relations
I had been reading Peirce for a decade or more before I found a math-strength
definition of signs and sign relations. A lot of the literature on semiotics
takes almost any aperçu Peirce penned about signs as a “definition” but barely
a handful of those descriptions are consequential enough to support significant
theory. For my part, the definition of a sign relation coming closest to the
mark is one Peirce gave in the process of defining logic itself. Two variants
of that definition are linked and copied below.
C.S. Peirce • On the Definition of Logic
========================================
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/06/01/c-s-peirce-on-the-definition-of-logic/
Selections from C.S. Peirce, “Carnegie Application” (1902)
No. 12. On the Definition of Logic
Logic will here be defined as formal semiotic. A definition of a sign will be given which no more refers to human
thought than does the definition of a line as the place which a particle occupies, part by part, during a lapse of time.
Namely, a sign is something, A, which brings something, B, its interpretant sign determined or created by it, into the
same sort of correspondence with something, C, its object, as that in which itself stands to C. It is from this
definition, together with a definition of “formal”, that I deduce mathematically the principles of logic. I also make a
historical review of all the definitions and conceptions of logic, and show, not merely that my definition is no
novelty, but that my non-psychological conception of logic has virtually been quite generally held, though not generally
recognized. (NEM 4, 20–21).
No. 12. On the Definition of Logic [Earlier Draft]
Logic is formal semiotic. A sign is something, A, which brings something, B, its interpretant sign, determined or
created by it, into the same sort of correspondence (or a lower implied sort) with something, C, its object, as that in
which itself stands to C. This definition no more involves any reference to human thought than does the definition of a
line as the place within which a particle lies during a lapse of time. It is from this definition that I deduce the
principles of logic by mathematical reasoning, and by mathematical reasoning that, I aver, will support criticism of
Weierstrassian severity, and that is perfectly evident. The word “formal” in the definition is also defined. (NEM 4, 54).
Reference
=========
Charles S. Peirce (1902),
“Parts of Carnegie Application” (L 75), published in Carolyn Eisele (ed., 1976),
“The New Elements of Mathematics by Charles S. Peirce”, vol. 4, pp. 13–73.
Online ( https://arisbe.sitehost.iu.edu/menu/library/bycsp/L75/l75.htm )
Regards,
Jon
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/09/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-comment-1/
All,
I opened a topic on Sign Relations in the Logic stream of
Category Theory Zulipchat to work on Peirce's theory of
triadic sign relations in a category-theoretic framework.
Invitation Link
https://categorytheory.zulipchat.com/join/jsvtolybonggfwxiodsktbkz/
Topic Link
https://categorytheory.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/233104-theory.3A-logic/topic/sign.20relations
I had been reading Peirce for a decade or more before I found a math-strength
definition of signs and sign relations. A lot of the literature on semiotics
takes almost any aperçu Peirce penned about signs as a “definition” but barely
a handful of those descriptions are consequential enough to support significant
theory. For my part, the definition of a sign relation coming closest to the
mark is one Peirce gave in the process of defining logic itself. Two variants
of that definition are linked and copied below.
C.S. Peirce • On the Definition of Logic
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/06/01/c-s-peirce-on-the-definition-of-logic/
Selections from C.S. Peirce, “Carnegie Application” (1902)
No. 12. On the Definition of Logic
Logic will here be defined as formal semiotic. A definition of a sign will be given which no more refers to human
thought than does the definition of a line as the place which a particle occupies, part by part, during a lapse of time.
Namely, a sign is something, A, which brings something, B, its interpretant sign determined or created by it, into the
same sort of correspondence with something, C, its object, as that in which itself stands to C. It is from this
definition, together with a definition of “formal”, that I deduce mathematically the principles of logic. I also make a
historical review of all the definitions and conceptions of logic, and show, not merely that my definition is no
novelty, but that my non-psychological conception of logic has virtually been quite generally held, though not generally
recognized. (NEM 4, 20–21).
No. 12. On the Definition of Logic [Earlier Draft]
Logic is formal semiotic. A sign is something, A, which brings something, B, its interpretant sign, determined or
created by it, into the same sort of correspondence (or a lower implied sort) with something, C, its object, as that in
which itself stands to C. This definition no more involves any reference to human thought than does the definition of a
line as the place within which a particle lies during a lapse of time. It is from this definition that I deduce the
principles of logic by mathematical reasoning, and by mathematical reasoning that, I aver, will support criticism of
Weierstrassian severity, and that is perfectly evident. The word “formal” in the definition is also defined. (NEM 4, 54).
=========
Charles S. Peirce (1902),
“Parts of Carnegie Application” (L 75), published in Carolyn Eisele (ed., 1976),
Online ( https://arisbe.sitehost.iu.edu/menu/library/bycsp/L75/l75.htm )
Regards,
Jon
Jon Awbrey
Aug 10, 2021, 7:15:26 PM8/10/21
to Cybernetic Communications, Laws of Form, Ontolog Forum, Peirce List, Structural Modeling, SysSciWG
Cf: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Comment 2
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/10/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-comment-2/
Re: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Comment 1
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/09/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-comment-1/
All,
Definitions tend to call on other terms in need of their own definitions,
and so on till the process terminates at the level of primitive terms.
The main two concepts requiring supplementation in Peirce's definition
of a sign relation are the ideas of “correspondence” and “determination”.
We can figure out fairly well what Peirce had in mind from things he wrote
elsewhere, as I explained in the Sign Relation article I added to Wikipedia
15 years ago.
Sign Relation
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sign_relation&oldid=68541642
Not daring to look at what's left of that, here's the relevant section
from the OEIS Wiki fork.
• Definition ( https://oeis.org/wiki/Sign_relation#Definition )
Regards,
Jon
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/10/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-comment-2/
Re: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Comment 1
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/09/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-comment-1/
All,
Definitions tend to call on other terms in need of their own definitions,
and so on till the process terminates at the level of primitive terms.
The main two concepts requiring supplementation in Peirce's definition
of a sign relation are the ideas of “correspondence” and “determination”.
We can figure out fairly well what Peirce had in mind from things he wrote
elsewhere, as I explained in the Sign Relation article I added to Wikipedia
15 years ago.
Sign Relation
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sign_relation&oldid=68541642
Not daring to look at what's left of that, here's the relevant section
from the OEIS Wiki fork.
• Definition ( https://oeis.org/wiki/Sign_relation#Definition )
Regards,
Jon
Jon Awbrey
Aug 12, 2021, 6:20:34 PM8/12/21
to Cybernetic Communications, Laws of Form, Ontolog Forum, Peirce List, Structural Modeling, SysSciWG
Cf: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Comment 3
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/12/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-comment-3/
All,
It helps me to compare sign relations with my other favorite class
of triadic relations, namely, groups. Applications of mathematical
groups came up just recently in the Laws of Form discussion group,
so it will save a little formatting time to adapt the definition
used there.
Cf: Animated Logical Graphs • 60
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/02/21/animated-logical-graphs-60/
Definition 1. A group (G, ∗) is a set G together with
a binary operation ∗ : G × G → G satisfying the following
three conditions.
1. Associativity.
For any x, y, z in G, we have (x ∗ y) ∗ z = x ∗ (y ∗ z).
2. Identity.
There is an identity element 1 in G such that for all g in G,
we have 1 ∗ g = g ∗ 1 = g.
3. Inverses.
Each element has an inverse, that is, for each g in G,
there is some h in G such that g ∗ h = h ∗ g = 1.
Regards,
Jon
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/12/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-comment-3/
All,
It helps me to compare sign relations with my other favorite class
of triadic relations, namely, groups. Applications of mathematical
groups came up just recently in the Laws of Form discussion group,
so it will save a little formatting time to adapt the definition
used there.
Cf: Animated Logical Graphs • 60
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/02/21/animated-logical-graphs-60/
Definition 1. A group (G, ∗) is a set G together with
a binary operation ∗ : G × G → G satisfying the following
three conditions.
1. Associativity.
For any x, y, z in G, we have (x ∗ y) ∗ z = x ∗ (y ∗ z).
2. Identity.
There is an identity element 1 in G such that for all g in G,
we have 1 ∗ g = g ∗ 1 = g.
3. Inverses.
Each element has an inverse, that is, for each g in G,
there is some h in G such that g ∗ h = h ∗ g = 1.
Regards,
Jon
Jon Awbrey
Aug 13, 2021, 8:45:19 AM8/13/21
to Cybernetic Communications, Laws of Form, Ontolog Forum, Peirce List, Structural Modeling, SysSciWG
Cf: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Discussion 7
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/13/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-7/
Re: Category Theory
https://categorytheory.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/233104-theory.3A-logic/topic/sign.20relations
::: Morgan Rogers
https://categorytheory.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/233104-theory.3A-logic/topic/sign.20relations/near/248860697
<QUOTE MR:>
Okay, this is hard to parse, but I’ve looked at it a few times now framed with discussion from a few different sources,
and it seems that if we fix some sets A of signs, B of interpretants and C of objects, and treating the sign relation as
R ⊆ A × B × C, there are some reasonable restrictions/assumptions we could place on R. For example:
1a.
∀a ∈ A, ∀b ∈ B, ∃c ∈ C, (a,b,c) ∈ R,
“every sign means something to every interpretant”,
1b.
∀a ∈ A, ∃b ∈ B, ∃c ∈ C, (a,b,c) ∈ R, a weaker alternative,
“every sign means something to some interpretant”,
2a.
∀c ∈ C, ∀b ∈ B, ∃a ∈ A, (a,b,c) ∈ R,
“every interpretant has a name for every object”,
2b.
∀c ∈ C, ∃b ∈ B, ∃a ∈ A, (a,b,c) ∈ R, a weaker alternative,
“every object has at least one name assigned to it by each interpretant”,
and so on.
However, none of these seem strictly necessary to me; there could be meaningless symbols or nameless objects. Does
Peirce assume any of these things or similar? If not, I suspect the answer to my question regarding mathematical
distinguishing features of sign relations is that there aren’t any: that any ternary relation can be understood as a
sign relation if one squints hard enough.
</QUOTE>
Dear Morgan,
As far as meaningless signs go, we do encounter them in theoretical analysis (“resolving conundra” and “steering around
nonsense”) and empirical or computational applications (“missing data” and “error types”). The defect of meaning can
affect either denotative objects or connotative interpretants or both. In those events we have to generalize sign
relations to what are called “sign relational complexes”.
Signless objects are a different matter since cognitions and concepts count as signs in pragmatic semiotics and Peirce
maintains we have no concept of inconceivable objects.
If you fancy indulging in a bit of cosmological speculation you could imagine the whole physical universe to be a sign
of itself to itself, making O = S = I, but this far downstream from the Big Bang we mortals usually have more pressing
business to worry about.
In short, what we need sign relations for is not for settling big questions about cosmology or metaphysics but for
organizing our thinking about object domains and constructing models of what goes on and what might go better in
practical affairs like communication, inquiry, learning, and reasoning.
Regards,
Jon
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/13/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-7/
Re: Category Theory
https://categorytheory.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/233104-theory.3A-logic/topic/sign.20relations
::: Morgan Rogers
https://categorytheory.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/233104-theory.3A-logic/topic/sign.20relations/near/248860697
<QUOTE MR:>
Okay, this is hard to parse, but I’ve looked at it a few times now framed with discussion from a few different sources,
and it seems that if we fix some sets A of signs, B of interpretants and C of objects, and treating the sign relation as
R ⊆ A × B × C, there are some reasonable restrictions/assumptions we could place on R. For example:
1a.
∀a ∈ A, ∀b ∈ B, ∃c ∈ C, (a,b,c) ∈ R,
“every sign means something to every interpretant”,
1b.
∀a ∈ A, ∃b ∈ B, ∃c ∈ C, (a,b,c) ∈ R, a weaker alternative,
“every sign means something to some interpretant”,
2a.
∀c ∈ C, ∀b ∈ B, ∃a ∈ A, (a,b,c) ∈ R,
“every interpretant has a name for every object”,
2b.
∀c ∈ C, ∃b ∈ B, ∃a ∈ A, (a,b,c) ∈ R, a weaker alternative,
“every object has at least one name assigned to it by each interpretant”,
and so on.
However, none of these seem strictly necessary to me; there could be meaningless symbols or nameless objects. Does
Peirce assume any of these things or similar? If not, I suspect the answer to my question regarding mathematical
distinguishing features of sign relations is that there aren’t any: that any ternary relation can be understood as a
sign relation if one squints hard enough.
</QUOTE>
Dear Morgan,
As far as meaningless signs go, we do encounter them in theoretical analysis (“resolving conundra” and “steering around
nonsense”) and empirical or computational applications (“missing data” and “error types”). The defect of meaning can
affect either denotative objects or connotative interpretants or both. In those events we have to generalize sign
relations to what are called “sign relational complexes”.
Signless objects are a different matter since cognitions and concepts count as signs in pragmatic semiotics and Peirce
maintains we have no concept of inconceivable objects.
If you fancy indulging in a bit of cosmological speculation you could imagine the whole physical universe to be a sign
of itself to itself, making O = S = I, but this far downstream from the Big Bang we mortals usually have more pressing
business to worry about.
In short, what we need sign relations for is not for settling big questions about cosmology or metaphysics but for
organizing our thinking about object domains and constructing models of what goes on and what might go better in
practical affairs like communication, inquiry, learning, and reasoning.
Regards,
Jon
Jon Awbrey
Aug 13, 2021, 7:00:39 PM8/13/21
to Cybernetic Communications, Laws of Form, Ontolog Forum, Peirce List, Structural Modeling, SysSciWG
Cf: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Discussion 8
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/13/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-8/
Re: Peirce List
https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2021-08/thrd5.html#00090
::: Robert Marty
https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2021-08/msg00151.html
<QUOTE RM:>
Thank you for reminding me of the definition of a group that I have taught for 45 years … I think you work with the
permutations of symmetrical groups that do not fit well with the interdependence of categories and which make us go out
of the Peircian theory, which is not forbidden as long as we point it out. I'll look at the use you make of them when
you've answered my previous questions with something other than a stream of links and the definition of a group! (my
Ph.D. Math is on Abelian Groups) … formulating my questions correctly takes me time, especially to grasp your thought …
I would like a reciprocal … I always thought that you had the capacity to do it without giving up your certainties, but
I must say that today I am disappointed …
</QUOTE>
Dear Robert,
Auld acquaintance is not forgot 🍻
I will convey your thanks to one who reminded me.
My reason for encoring mathematical groups as a class of
triadic relations and elsewhere casting divisibility in
the role of a dyadic relation was not so much for their
own sakes as for the critical exercise my English Lit
teachers used to style as “Compare and Contrast”.
For the sale of our immediate engagement, then, we
tackle that exercise all the better to highlight
the distinctive qualities of triadic relations
and sign relations.
A critical point of the comparison is to grasp sign relations
as *collections* of ordered triples — collections endowed with
collective properties extending well beyond the properties of
individual triples and their components.
Regards,
Jon
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/13/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-8/
Re: Peirce List
https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2021-08/thrd5.html#00090
::: Robert Marty
https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2021-08/msg00151.html
<QUOTE RM:>
Thank you for reminding me of the definition of a group that I have taught for 45 years … I think you work with the
permutations of symmetrical groups that do not fit well with the interdependence of categories and which make us go out
of the Peircian theory, which is not forbidden as long as we point it out. I'll look at the use you make of them when
you've answered my previous questions with something other than a stream of links and the definition of a group! (my
Ph.D. Math is on Abelian Groups) … formulating my questions correctly takes me time, especially to grasp your thought …
I would like a reciprocal … I always thought that you had the capacity to do it without giving up your certainties, but
I must say that today I am disappointed …
</QUOTE>
Dear Robert,
Auld acquaintance is not forgot 🍻
I will convey your thanks to one who reminded me.
My reason for encoring mathematical groups as a class of
triadic relations and elsewhere casting divisibility in
the role of a dyadic relation was not so much for their
own sakes as for the critical exercise my English Lit
teachers used to style as “Compare and Contrast”.
For the sale of our immediate engagement, then, we
tackle that exercise all the better to highlight
the distinctive qualities of triadic relations
and sign relations.
A critical point of the comparison is to grasp sign relations
as *collections* of ordered triples — collections endowed with
collective properties extending well beyond the properties of
individual triples and their components.
Regards,
Jon
Jon Awbrey
Aug 14, 2021, 6:46:05 AM8/14/21
to Cybernetic Communications, Laws of Form, Ontolog Forum, Peirce List, Structural Modeling, SysSciWG
Cf: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Discussion 9
http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/14/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-9/
Re: Category Theory
https://categorytheory.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/233104-theory.3A-logic/topic/sign.20relations
::: Morgan Rogers
https://categorytheory.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/233104-theory.3A-logic/topic/sign.20relations/near/248952679
<QUOTE MR:>
Okay, I may have mixed up the meanings of “object” and “interpretant”
in my plain language translations above? Re determination, I read
“B is determined by A” as meaning the conjunction of
∀a ∈ A, ∃b ∈ B, ∃c ∈ C, R(a,b,c)
and
∀a ∈ A, ∀c ∈ C, R(a,b,c) ∧ R(a,b',c) ⇒ b = b' ?
Whether this is right depends on the answers to my previous questions.
</QUOTE>
Dear Morgan,
Let's look at the gloss I gave for Determination under the Definition
( https://oeis.org/wiki/Sign_relation#Definition ) of a Sign Relation
( https://oeis.org/wiki/Sign_relation ).
• Determination. Peirce's concept of determination is broader in several
directions than the sense of the word that refers to strictly deterministic
causal-temporal processes. First, and especially in this context, he is
invoking a more general concept of determination, what is called a formal
or informational determination, as in saying “two points determine a line”,
rather than the more special cases of causal and temporal determinisms.
Second, he characteristically allows for what is called “determination in
measure”, that is, an order of determinism that admits a full spectrum of
more and less determined relationships.
Other words for this general order of determination are structure,
pattern, law, form, and one coming up especially in cybernetics and
systems theory, constraint. It's what happens when not everything
that might happen actually does. (The stochastic mechanic or the
quantum technician will probably quip at this point, “At least,
not with equal probability.”)
Regards,
Jon
http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/14/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-9/
Re: Category Theory
https://categorytheory.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/233104-theory.3A-logic/topic/sign.20relations
::: Morgan Rogers
<QUOTE MR:>
Okay, I may have mixed up the meanings of “object” and “interpretant”
in my plain language translations above? Re determination, I read
“B is determined by A” as meaning the conjunction of
∀a ∈ A, ∃b ∈ B, ∃c ∈ C, R(a,b,c)
and
∀a ∈ A, ∀c ∈ C, R(a,b,c) ∧ R(a,b',c) ⇒ b = b' ?
Whether this is right depends on the answers to my previous questions.
</QUOTE>
Dear Morgan,
Let's look at the gloss I gave for Determination under the Definition
( https://oeis.org/wiki/Sign_relation#Definition ) of a Sign Relation
( https://oeis.org/wiki/Sign_relation ).
• Determination. Peirce's concept of determination is broader in several
directions than the sense of the word that refers to strictly deterministic
causal-temporal processes. First, and especially in this context, he is
invoking a more general concept of determination, what is called a formal
or informational determination, as in saying “two points determine a line”,
rather than the more special cases of causal and temporal determinisms.
Second, he characteristically allows for what is called “determination in
measure”, that is, an order of determinism that admits a full spectrum of
more and less determined relationships.
Other words for this general order of determination are structure,
pattern, law, form, and one coming up especially in cybernetics and
systems theory, constraint. It's what happens when not everything
that might happen actually does. (The stochastic mechanic or the
quantum technician will probably quip at this point, “At least,
not with equal probability.”)
Regards,
Jon
Jon Awbrey
Aug 14, 2021, 12:45:15 PM8/14/21
to Cybernetic Communications, Laws of Form, Ontolog Forum, Peirce List, Structural Modeling, SysSciWG
Cf: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Discussion 10
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/14/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-10/
Re: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Discussion 8
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/13/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-8/
Re: Category Theory
https://categorytheory.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/233104-theory.3A-logic/topic/sign.20relations
::: Morgan Rogers
https://categorytheory.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/233104-theory.3A-logic/topic/sign.20relations/near/249456735
<QUOTE MR:> Please clearly state at least one “distinctive quality of sign relations”. </QUOTE>
Dear Morgan,
Sign relations are triadic relations.
Can any triadic relation be a sign relation?
I don’t know. I have pursued the question myself whether any
triadic relation could be used somehow or other in a context
of communication, information, inquiry, learning, reasoning,
and so on where concepts of signs and their meanings are
commonly invoked — there’s the rub — it’s not about what
a relation is “intrinsically” or “ontologically” at all
but a question of “suitability for a particular purpose”
as they say in all the standard disclaimers.
What Peirce has done is to propose a definition intended to capture an
intuitive, pre-theoretical, traditional concept of signs and their uses.
To put it on familiar ground, it’s like Turing’s proposal of his namesake
machine to capture the intuitive concept of computation. That is not a
matter to be resolved by à priori dictates but by trying out candidate
models in the intended applications.
I gave you what I consider Peirce’s best definition of a “sign”
in relational terms and I pointed out where it needs filling out
to qualify as a proper mathematical definition, most pointedly in
the further definitions of “correspondence” and “determination”.
That is the current state of the inquiry as it stands at this site …
Regards,
Jon
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/14/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-10/
Re: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Discussion 8
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/13/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-8/
Re: Category Theory
https://categorytheory.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/233104-theory.3A-logic/topic/sign.20relations
::: Morgan Rogers
<QUOTE MR:> Please clearly state at least one “distinctive quality of sign relations”. </QUOTE>
Dear Morgan,
Sign relations are triadic relations.
Can any triadic relation be a sign relation?
I don’t know. I have pursued the question myself whether any
triadic relation could be used somehow or other in a context
of communication, information, inquiry, learning, reasoning,
and so on where concepts of signs and their meanings are
commonly invoked — there’s the rub — it’s not about what
a relation is “intrinsically” or “ontologically” at all
but a question of “suitability for a particular purpose”
as they say in all the standard disclaimers.
What Peirce has done is to propose a definition intended to capture an
intuitive, pre-theoretical, traditional concept of signs and their uses.
To put it on familiar ground, it’s like Turing’s proposal of his namesake
machine to capture the intuitive concept of computation. That is not a
matter to be resolved by à priori dictates but by trying out candidate
models in the intended applications.
I gave you what I consider Peirce’s best definition of a “sign”
in relational terms and I pointed out where it needs filling out
to qualify as a proper mathematical definition, most pointedly in
the further definitions of “correspondence” and “determination”.
That is the current state of the inquiry as it stands at this site …
Regards,
Jon
Jon Awbrey
Aug 22, 2021, 12:45:17 PM8/22/21
to Cybernetic Communications, Laws of Form, Ontolog Forum, Peirce List, Structural Modeling, SysSciWG
Cf: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Discussion 11
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/22/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-11/
Re: Peirce List
https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2021-08/thrd1.html#00009
::: Robert Marty
https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2021-08/msg00132.html
<QUOTE RM:>
Dear Jon,
You evoke many concepts with their relations, the explanation of which would take a considerable amount of time, to the
point that you are reduced to answering yourself. I want to question you on the point that interests me particularly,
which concerns your entry into Peirce's semiotics. I found it among all your links here:
• Sign Relation ( https://oeis.org/wiki/Sign_relation )
You will tell me if this is the right reference. If it is so, then I think you have made a bad choice, and of course, I
explain myself. To be clear and precise, I must reproduce the entirety of your “Definition“ paragraph:
• Definition ( https://oeis.org/wiki/Sign_relation#Definition )
</QUOTE>
Dear Robert,
I'm just beginning to get out from under the deluge of tasks
put off by the pandemic ... I think I can finally return to
your remarks of August 12 on my sketch of Peirce's theory
of signs for the general reader interested in semiotics.
Your message to the List had many detailed quotations, so I'm
in the process of drafting an easier-on-the-eyes blog version.
When I get done with that — it may be a day — I'll post my reply
on the thread dealing with Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations,
so as to keep focused on signs.
Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations
https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2021-08/thrd5.html#00090
Regards,
Jon
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/22/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-11/
Re: Peirce List
https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2021-08/thrd1.html#00009
::: Robert Marty
https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2021-08/msg00132.html
<QUOTE RM:>
Dear Jon,
You evoke many concepts with their relations, the explanation of which would take a considerable amount of time, to the
point that you are reduced to answering yourself. I want to question you on the point that interests me particularly,
which concerns your entry into Peirce's semiotics. I found it among all your links here:
• Sign Relation ( https://oeis.org/wiki/Sign_relation )
You will tell me if this is the right reference. If it is so, then I think you have made a bad choice, and of course, I
explain myself. To be clear and precise, I must reproduce the entirety of your “Definition“ paragraph:
• Definition ( https://oeis.org/wiki/Sign_relation#Definition )
</QUOTE>
Dear Robert,
I'm just beginning to get out from under the deluge of tasks
put off by the pandemic ... I think I can finally return to
your remarks of August 12 on my sketch of Peirce's theory
of signs for the general reader interested in semiotics.
Your message to the List had many detailed quotations, so I'm
in the process of drafting an easier-on-the-eyes blog version.
When I get done with that — it may be a day — I'll post my reply
on the thread dealing with Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations,
so as to keep focused on signs.
Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations
https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2021-08/thrd5.html#00090
Regards,
Jon
Jon Awbrey
Aug 23, 2021, 4:44:41 PM8/23/21
to Cybernetic Communications, Laws of Form, Ontolog Forum, Structural Modeling, SysSciWG
Cf: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Comment 4
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/23/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-comment-4/
ah, what do mathematicians know of life's exigency?
proof is our rock and our soul necessity.
we don't just make abstractions, we are abstractions.
it's coffee and doughnuts all the way down ...
no one disturbs our vain diagrams
till human voices wake us, and we drown.
🙞 also sprach 0*
—— 23 august 2021
Cf: (Context : Ironic)(Apology : T.S. Eliot)
https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2021-08/msg00292.html
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/23/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-comment-4/
ah, what do mathematicians know of life's exigency?
proof is our rock and our soul necessity.
we don't just make abstractions, we are abstractions.
it's coffee and doughnuts all the way down ...
no one disturbs our vain diagrams
till human voices wake us, and we drown.
🙞 also sprach 0*
—— 23 august 2021
Cf: (Context : Ironic)(Apology : T.S. Eliot)
https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2021-08/msg00292.html
Jon Awbrey
Aug 25, 2021, 11:15:46 AM8/25/21
to Cybernetic Communications, Laws of Form, Ontolog Forum, Peirce List, Structural Modeling, SysSciWG
Cf: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Discussion 12
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/25/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-12/
::: Robert Marty (quoted)
https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2021-08/msg00292.html
<QUOTE RM:>
I persist in the idea that in your six combinations [O, S, I]
only one is relevant for semiotics, the others being out of the
field […] On the projections, there is also matter for discussion …
but to discuss well one must reserve a rather large agenda …
I thus wait for your reply dealing with semiosis to resume
a debate well-centered on the essential …
Dear Robert,
A bit of calm today — and feeling slaked after a day spent
minding Voltaire's advice and pulling weeds from our garden —
I'll take up one of your last problems first as it may be
the one most quickly resolved.
I take it you are referring to the section of the
( https://oeis.org/wiki/Sign_relation#Six_ways_of_looking_at_a_sign_relation )
which begins as follows.
<QUOTE Article:>
In the context of 3-adic relations in general, Peirce provides the
following illustration of the six converses of a 3-adic relation,
that is, the six differently ordered ways of stating what is
logically the same 3-adic relation:
<QUOTE CSP:>
So in a triadic fact, say, for example
• A gives B to C
we make no distinction in the ordinary logic of relations between
the subject nominative, the direct object, and the indirect object.
We say that the proposition has three logical subjects. We regard
it as a mere affair of English grammar that there are six ways of
expressing this:
[Display. Six Ways of Looking at a Sign Relation]
https://inquiryintoinquiry.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/six-ways-of-looking-at-a-triadic-relation-e28cac-1.png
These six sentences express one and the same indivisible phenomenon.
(C.S. Peirce, “The Categories Defended”, MS 308 (1903), EP 2, 170–171).
</QUOTE>
“These six sentences express one and the same indivisible phenomenon.”
It's a statement telling of the difference between affairs of grammar
and affairs of logic, mathematics, and phenomena.
To be continued …
Jon
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/25/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-12/
::: Robert Marty (quoted)
https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2021-08/msg00292.html
<QUOTE RM:>
I persist in the idea that in your six combinations [O, S, I]
only one is relevant for semiotics, the others being out of the
field […] On the projections, there is also matter for discussion …
but to discuss well one must reserve a rather large agenda …
I thus wait for your reply dealing with semiosis to resume
a debate well-centered on the essential …
Dear Robert,
A bit of calm today — and feeling slaked after a day spent
minding Voltaire's advice and pulling weeds from our garden —
I'll take up one of your last problems first as it may be
the one most quickly resolved.
I take it you are referring to the section of the
Sign Relation ( https://oeis.org/wiki/Sign_relation )
article titled “Six Ways of Looking at a Sign Relation”
( https://oeis.org/wiki/Sign_relation#Six_ways_of_looking_at_a_sign_relation )
which begins as follows.
<QUOTE Article:>
In the context of 3-adic relations in general, Peirce provides the
following illustration of the six converses of a 3-adic relation,
that is, the six differently ordered ways of stating what is
logically the same 3-adic relation:
<QUOTE CSP:>
So in a triadic fact, say, for example
• A gives B to C
we make no distinction in the ordinary logic of relations between
the subject nominative, the direct object, and the indirect object.
We say that the proposition has three logical subjects. We regard
it as a mere affair of English grammar that there are six ways of
expressing this:
[Display. Six Ways of Looking at a Sign Relation]
https://inquiryintoinquiry.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/six-ways-of-looking-at-a-triadic-relation-e28cac-1.png
These six sentences express one and the same indivisible phenomenon.
(C.S. Peirce, “The Categories Defended”, MS 308 (1903), EP 2, 170–171).
</QUOTE>
“These six sentences express one and the same indivisible phenomenon.”
It's a statement telling of the difference between affairs of grammar
and affairs of logic, mathematics, and phenomena.
To be continued …
Jon
Jon Awbrey
Aug 30, 2021, 3:26:31 PM8/30/21
to Cybernetic Communications, Laws of Form, Ontolog Forum, Peirce List, Structural Modeling, SysSciWG
Cf: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Discussion 13
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/30/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-13/
Re: Category Theory
https://categorytheory.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/233104-theory.3A-logic/topic/sign.20relations
::: Peiyuan Zhu
https://categorytheory.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/233104-theory.3A-logic/topic/sign.20relations/near/251113234
::: Henry Story
https://categorytheory.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/233104-theory.3A-logic/topic/sign.20relations/near/251115511
Zulip Inivitation Link:
https://categorytheory.zulipchat.com/join/uez4ystfwhbwazggfurgxkm7/
Dear Peiyuan, Henry …
Way back during my first foundation + identity crisis I explored every
alternative, deviant, non-standard version of logic and set theory
I could scrape up — I remember saying to one of my professors,
“How come we’re still talking about logical atoms in the quantum era?” —
and he sent me off to read about quantum logics, which had apparently
already fallen out of fashion at the time. Remarkably enough, I did
find one Peircean scholar who had done a lot of work on them, but
they didn’t seem to be what I needed right then.
My present, still pressing applications require me to start from much more
elementary grounds, stuff I can build up from boolean sources and targets,
universes with coordinate spaces of type (Bⁿ, Bⁿ → B).
Regards,
Jon
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/30/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-13/
Re: Category Theory
https://categorytheory.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/233104-theory.3A-logic/topic/sign.20relations
https://categorytheory.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/233104-theory.3A-logic/topic/sign.20relations/near/251113234
::: Henry Story
https://categorytheory.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/233104-theory.3A-logic/topic/sign.20relations/near/251115511
Zulip Inivitation Link:
https://categorytheory.zulipchat.com/join/uez4ystfwhbwazggfurgxkm7/
Dear Peiyuan, Henry …
Way back during my first foundation + identity crisis I explored every
alternative, deviant, non-standard version of logic and set theory
I could scrape up — I remember saying to one of my professors,
“How come we’re still talking about logical atoms in the quantum era?” —
and he sent me off to read about quantum logics, which had apparently
already fallen out of fashion at the time. Remarkably enough, I did
find one Peircean scholar who had done a lot of work on them, but
they didn’t seem to be what I needed right then.
My present, still pressing applications require me to start from much more
elementary grounds, stuff I can build up from boolean sources and targets,
universes with coordinate spaces of type (Bⁿ, Bⁿ → B).
Regards,
Jon
Jon Awbrey
Aug 31, 2021, 3:40:17 PM8/31/21
to Cybernetic Communications, Laws of Form, Ontolog Forum, Peirce List, Structural Modeling, SysSciWG
Cf: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Discussion 14
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/31/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-14/
Re: Animated Logical Graphs • 81
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/26/animated-logical-graphs-81/
Re: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Discussion 13
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/30/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-13/
All,
Topics arising in various circles I traverse on the web
are flashing me back to my earliest influences in the ways
of inquiry driven systems. Dick Lipton and Ken Regan brought
to mind the generative power of negative operations and the
specific limits of perceptrons. Peiyuan Zhu and Henry Story
discussed a paper by Michael Heller and Jerzy Król titled
“How Logic Interacts with Geometry : Infinitesimal Curvature
of Categorical Spaces”. It was over my head, just a bit,
but it reminded me of early questions about logical atoms,
individuals, nominalism vs. realism, and quantum logics,
not to mention current pursuits in differential logic,
all of which feedback into the ouroborian ampheckbaena
of NAND and NNOR among negative ops.
It will be interesting to see what evolves …
Resources
=========
Survey of Animated Logical Graphs
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/05/01/survey-of-animated-logical-graphs-4/
Survey of Differential Logic
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/05/15/survey-of-differential-logic-3/
Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/12/27/survey-of-inquiry-driven-systems-3/
Survey of Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2019/10/29/survey-of-semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-1/
Regards,
Jon
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/31/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-14/
Re: Animated Logical Graphs • 81
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/26/animated-logical-graphs-81/
Re: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Discussion 13
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/30/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-13/
All,
Topics arising in various circles I traverse on the web
are flashing me back to my earliest influences in the ways
of inquiry driven systems. Dick Lipton and Ken Regan brought
to mind the generative power of negative operations and the
specific limits of perceptrons. Peiyuan Zhu and Henry Story
discussed a paper by Michael Heller and Jerzy Król titled
“How Logic Interacts with Geometry : Infinitesimal Curvature
of Categorical Spaces”. It was over my head, just a bit,
but it reminded me of early questions about logical atoms,
individuals, nominalism vs. realism, and quantum logics,
not to mention current pursuits in differential logic,
all of which feedback into the ouroborian ampheckbaena
of NAND and NNOR among negative ops.
It will be interesting to see what evolves …
Resources
=========
Survey of Animated Logical Graphs
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/05/01/survey-of-animated-logical-graphs-4/
Survey of Differential Logic
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/05/15/survey-of-differential-logic-3/
Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/12/27/survey-of-inquiry-driven-systems-3/
Survey of Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2019/10/29/survey-of-semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-1/
Regards,
Jon
Jon Awbrey
Sep 1, 2021, 3:30:19 PM9/1/21
to Cybernetic Communications, Laws of Form, Ontolog Forum, Peirce List, Structural Modeling, SysSciWG
Cf: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Discussion 15
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/09/01/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-15/
Re: Peirce List
https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2021-08/thrd5.html#00090
::: Robert Marty (quoted)
https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2021-08/msg00292.html
<QUOTE RM:>
I persist in the idea that in your six combinations [O, S, I] only one
is relevant for semiotics, the others being out of the field […] On the
projections, there is also matter for discussion … but to discuss well
one must reserve a rather large agenda … I thus wait for your reply
dealing with semiosis to resume a debate well-centered on the essential …
Dear Robert,
Returning to our discussion of 3-place relations and the 6 conversions
they enjoy under the action of the symmetric group S₃ permuting their
places, it’s been a while so I’ll extract the substance of my last
reply and continue from there.
We had been contemplating Peirce's variations on a theme of giving
as presented in the section of the Sign Relation article titled
“Six Ways of Looking at a Sign Relation”.
That section begins as follows.
<QUOTE https://oeis.org/wiki/Sign_relation#Six_ways_of_looking_at_a_sign_relation >
In the context of 3-adic relations in general, Peirce provides the
following illustration of the six converses of a 3-adic relation,
that is, the six differently ordered ways of stating what is
logically the same 3-adic relation:
<QUOTE CSP:>
So in a triadic fact, say, for example
• A gives B to C
we make no distinction in the ordinary logic of relations between
the subject nominative, the direct object, and the indirect object.
We say that the proposition has three logical subjects. We regard
it as a mere affair of English grammar that there are six ways of
expressing this:
[Display. Six Ways of Looking at a Sign Relation]
https://inquiryintoinquiry.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/six-ways-of-looking-at-a-triadic-relation-e28cac-1.png
These six sentences express one and the same indivisible phenomenon.
(C.S. Peirce, “The Categories Defended”, MS 308 (1903), EP 2, 170–171).
</QUOTE></QUOTE>
I called attention to the moral Peirce draws.
• “These six sentences express one and the same indivisible phenomenon.”
With that one statement Peirce draws the clearest possible
line of demarcation between affairs of grammar and affairs
in general reserved for fixed types of entities, in particular,
it applies to triadic sign relations. As we say, “objects, signs,
and interpretants are roles not essences”.
Regards,
Jon
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/09/01/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-15/
Re: Peirce List
https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2021-08/thrd5.html#00090
::: Robert Marty (quoted)
https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2021-08/msg00292.html
<QUOTE RM:>
I persist in the idea that in your six combinations [O, S, I] only one
is relevant for semiotics, the others being out of the field […] On the
projections, there is also matter for discussion … but to discuss well
one must reserve a rather large agenda … I thus wait for your reply
dealing with semiosis to resume a debate well-centered on the essential …
Dear Robert,
they enjoy under the action of the symmetric group S₃ permuting their
places, it’s been a while so I’ll extract the substance of my last
reply and continue from there.
We had been contemplating Peirce's variations on a theme of giving
as presented in the section of the Sign Relation article titled
“Six Ways of Looking at a Sign Relation”.
That section begins as follows.
<QUOTE https://oeis.org/wiki/Sign_relation#Six_ways_of_looking_at_a_sign_relation >
In the context of 3-adic relations in general, Peirce provides the
following illustration of the six converses of a 3-adic relation,
that is, the six differently ordered ways of stating what is
logically the same 3-adic relation:
<QUOTE CSP:>
So in a triadic fact, say, for example
• A gives B to C
we make no distinction in the ordinary logic of relations between
the subject nominative, the direct object, and the indirect object.
We say that the proposition has three logical subjects. We regard
it as a mere affair of English grammar that there are six ways of
expressing this:
[Display. Six Ways of Looking at a Sign Relation]
https://inquiryintoinquiry.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/six-ways-of-looking-at-a-triadic-relation-e28cac-1.png
These six sentences express one and the same indivisible phenomenon.
(C.S. Peirce, “The Categories Defended”, MS 308 (1903), EP 2, 170–171).
I called attention to the moral Peirce draws.
• “These six sentences express one and the same indivisible phenomenon.”
With that one statement Peirce draws the clearest possible
line of demarcation between affairs of grammar and affairs
of logic, mathematics, and phenomena.
The same lesson applies to any relation whose places are not
in general reserved for fixed types of entities, in particular,
it applies to triadic sign relations. As we say, “objects, signs,
and interpretants are roles not essences”.
Regards,
Jon
Jon Awbrey
Sep 2, 2021, 11:55:13 AM9/2/21
to Cybernetic Communications, Laws of Form, Ontolog Forum, Peirce List, Structural Modeling, SysSciWG
Cf: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Discussion 16
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/09/02/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-16/
Re: FB | Semeiotics
https://www.facebook.com/Semeiotic/posts/4441505199249593
::: Marius V. Constantin
https://www.facebook.com/groups/964364967280710/posts/1502285400155328/
Marius Constantin asked a series of questions
which allow me to clear up a number of points.
<QUOTE MVC:>
Have you taken into consideration the difference
between weak negation and strong negation?
</QUOTE>
I always begin classically where logic is concerned — I guess that means
“strong” negation — we make a stronger start and get better mileage on
that basis before we run into the specialized circumstances, mainly
in computational and generalized semiotic settings, which force us
to weaken our logic.
<QUOTE MVC:>
It is so-called semiotic negation, which, by the way, was an aspect, for me,
in so-called resolution logic (Ch. Sanders Peirce is mentioned on that one).
</QUOTE>
I had a computer science course on resolution-unification theorem provers
at U. Illinois in the mid 1980s. If that’s the same sort of resolution,
it generalizes the modus ponens inference rule, all of which exemplify
implicational inference. Peirce’s logical graphs allow a degree of
equational or information-preserving inference, a fact which
Spencer Brown drew out and made more clear.
Regards,
Jon
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/09/02/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-16/
Re: FB | Semeiotics
https://www.facebook.com/Semeiotic/posts/4441505199249593
::: Marius V. Constantin
https://www.facebook.com/groups/964364967280710/posts/1502285400155328/
Marius Constantin asked a series of questions
which allow me to clear up a number of points.
<QUOTE MVC:>
Have you taken into consideration the difference
between weak negation and strong negation?
</QUOTE>
I always begin classically where logic is concerned — I guess that means
“strong” negation — we make a stronger start and get better mileage on
that basis before we run into the specialized circumstances, mainly
in computational and generalized semiotic settings, which force us
to weaken our logic.
<QUOTE MVC:>
It is so-called semiotic negation, which, by the way, was an aspect, for me,
in so-called resolution logic (Ch. Sanders Peirce is mentioned on that one).
</QUOTE>
I had a computer science course on resolution-unification theorem provers
at U. Illinois in the mid 1980s. If that’s the same sort of resolution,
it generalizes the modus ponens inference rule, all of which exemplify
implicational inference. Peirce’s logical graphs allow a degree of
equational or information-preserving inference, a fact which
Spencer Brown drew out and made more clear.
Regards,
Jon
Jon Awbrey
Sep 12, 2021, 1:00:31 PM9/12/21
to Cybernetic Communications, Laws of Form, Ontolog Forum, Peirce List, Structural Modeling, SysSciWG, robert marty
Cf: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Discussion 17
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/09/12/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-17/
https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2021-08/msg00141.html
https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2021-08/msg00151.html
https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2021-08/msg00178.html
Dear Robert,
I've been reviewing the discussions of August on this topic
and I think it might be possible to advance our inquiry and
even establish new levels of competence in our theory of signs
if we examined the main points again and dedicated ourselves to
clearing up the subject's more persistent enigmas.
As I was preparing to recap our earlier discussions, it gradually
dawned on me how one issue more than any other is the source of major
misunderstanding and a whole lot of “people talking past each other”,
as the saying goes. To put it succinctly if very roughly, it has to do
with the difference between people who have tests and are seeking answers
and people who have answers and are seeking tests. I say “very roughly”
because it's clear all of us are all of those people *some* of the time.
And yet we do see cognitive bifurcations and cultural divides persisting
over time, to one basin or the other of which people often find themselves
resorting for extended periods if not the duration of a lifetime.
I'll take up a tactic for dealing with this issue next time.
Regards,
Jon
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/09/12/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-17/
https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2021-08/msg00141.html
https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2021-08/msg00151.html
https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2021-08/msg00178.html
Dear Robert,
I've been reviewing the discussions of August on this topic
and I think it might be possible to advance our inquiry and
even establish new levels of competence in our theory of signs
if we examined the main points again and dedicated ourselves to
clearing up the subject's more persistent enigmas.
As I was preparing to recap our earlier discussions, it gradually
dawned on me how one issue more than any other is the source of major
misunderstanding and a whole lot of “people talking past each other”,
as the saying goes. To put it succinctly if very roughly, it has to do
with the difference between people who have tests and are seeking answers
and people who have answers and are seeking tests. I say “very roughly”
because it's clear all of us are all of those people *some* of the time.
And yet we do see cognitive bifurcations and cultural divides persisting
over time, to one basin or the other of which people often find themselves
resorting for extended periods if not the duration of a lifetime.
I'll take up a tactic for dealing with this issue next time.
Regards,
Jon
Jon Awbrey
Sep 28, 2021, 10:30:31 AM9/28/21
to Cybernetic Communications, Laws of Form, Ontolog Forum, Peirce List, Structural Modeling, SysSciWG
Cf: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Discussion 18
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/09/28/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-18/
Re: FB | Medieval Logic
https://www.facebook.com/groups/medievallogic
::: Edward Buckner
https://www.facebook.com/groups/medievallogic/posts/1840849412784222
https://www.facebook.com/groups/medievallogic/posts/1841508382718325
On Pragmata
===========
The object of a sign is any object of discussion or thought.
It is relational not ontological. This is the beginning of
pragmatic semiotics.
On Homoiomata
=============
The likeness theory of reference has the same problem as the
correspondence theory of truth, namely, as used in those theories
both terms refer to dyadic relations and dyadic relations are not
adequate to the task of accounting for the complex of activities
composing the intellect, for example, inquiry, learning, reasoning,
speech, thought, in short, Information Development/Exchange Activities.
In actuality, Aristotle comes closer to recognizing the triadic relation of
Objects, Signs, and Ideas than the majority of later writers before Peirce.
Here is the figure Susan Awbrey and I cut in our first hack at the matter.
Figure 1. The Sign Relation in Aristotle
https://inquiryintoinquiry.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/the-sign-relation-in-aristotle.png
Resources
=========
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.
Archive
https://web.archive.org/web/19970626071826/http://chss.montclair.edu/inquiry/fall95/awbrey.html
Journal
https://www.pdcnet.org/inquiryct/content/inquiryct_1995_0015_0001_0040_0052
Online
https://www.academia.edu/1266493/Interpretation_as_Action_The_Risk_of_Inquiry
πρᾶγμα
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dpra%3Dgma
Liddell, H.G., and Scott, R. (1925), A Greek-English Lexicon (1940 edition),
Perseus Digital Library ( http://www.perseus.tufts.edu )
Regards,
Jon
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/09/28/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-18/
Re: FB | Medieval Logic
https://www.facebook.com/groups/medievallogic
::: Edward Buckner
https://www.facebook.com/groups/medievallogic/posts/1840849412784222
https://www.facebook.com/groups/medievallogic/posts/1841508382718325
On Pragmata
===========
The object of a sign is any object of discussion or thought.
It is relational not ontological. This is the beginning of
pragmatic semiotics.
On Homoiomata
=============
The likeness theory of reference has the same problem as the
correspondence theory of truth, namely, as used in those theories
both terms refer to dyadic relations and dyadic relations are not
adequate to the task of accounting for the complex of activities
composing the intellect, for example, inquiry, learning, reasoning,
speech, thought, in short, Information Development/Exchange Activities.
In actuality, Aristotle comes closer to recognizing the triadic relation of
Objects, Signs, and Ideas than the majority of later writers before Peirce.
Here is the figure Susan Awbrey and I cut in our first hack at the matter.
Figure 1. The Sign Relation in Aristotle
https://inquiryintoinquiry.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/the-sign-relation-in-aristotle.png
Resources
=========
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.
Archive
https://web.archive.org/web/19970626071826/http://chss.montclair.edu/inquiry/fall95/awbrey.html
Journal
https://www.pdcnet.org/inquiryct/content/inquiryct_1995_0015_0001_0040_0052
Online
https://www.academia.edu/1266493/Interpretation_as_Action_The_Risk_of_Inquiry
πρᾶγμα
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dpra%3Dgma
Liddell, H.G., and Scott, R. (1925), A Greek-English Lexicon (1940 edition),
Perseus Digital Library ( http://www.perseus.tufts.edu )
Regards,
Jon
Jon Awbrey
Oct 5, 2021, 11:00:23 AM10/5/21
to Cybernetic Communications, Laws of Form, Ontolog Forum, Peirce List, Structural Modeling, SysSciWG
Cf: Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Discussion 19
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/10/05/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-19/
All,
I included this note in a series where I may more easily find it again
and added the Figure which always helps me stay oriented in this arena.
Figure. Normative Science, Phenomenology, Mathematics, Metaphysics
http://inquiryintoinquiry.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/peirce-syllabus.jpg
Caption. “Normative science rests largely on phenomenology and on
mathematics; metaphysics on phenomenology and on normative science.”
❧ Charles Sanders Peirce • Collected Papers, CP 1.186 (1903)
Syllabus • Classification of Sciences (CP 1.180–202, G-1903-2b)
ttp://web.archive.org/web/20111105121054/http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/peirce/cl_o_sci_03.htm
Re: Peirce List
https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2021-10/thrd1.html#00013
::: John Sowa
https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2021-10/msg00013.html
<QUOTE JS:>
Questions for everybody to consider: In the 1903 classification of the
sciences, Peirce did not mention semeiotic, the most important science
that he introduced. Why not? Where does it belong in the classification?
</QUOTE>
The short schrift on this subject may be summed up in the following syllogism.
Logic = Formal Semiotic
=======================
C.S. Peirce • On the Definition of Logic
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/06/01/c-s-peirce-on-the-definition-of-logic/
Formal = Quasi-Necessary = Normative
====================================
C.S. Peirce • Logic as Semiotic
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/06/04/c-s-peirce-logic-as-semiotic/
(It's a peculiar use, but it's Peirce's peculiar use in this context.)
Conclusion. Logic = Normative Semiotic.
========================================
Corollary. This leaves room for Descriptive Semiotic.
======================================================
Additional Notes
================
Definition and Determination • 5
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/06/02/definition-and-determination-5/
Regards,
Jon
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/10/05/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-19/
All,
I included this note in a series where I may more easily find it again
and added the Figure which always helps me stay oriented in this arena.
Figure. Normative Science, Phenomenology, Mathematics, Metaphysics
http://inquiryintoinquiry.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/peirce-syllabus.jpg
Caption. “Normative science rests largely on phenomenology and on
mathematics; metaphysics on phenomenology and on normative science.”
❧ Charles Sanders Peirce • Collected Papers, CP 1.186 (1903)
Syllabus • Classification of Sciences (CP 1.180–202, G-1903-2b)
ttp://web.archive.org/web/20111105121054/http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/peirce/cl_o_sci_03.htm
Re: Peirce List
https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2021-10/thrd1.html#00013
::: John Sowa
https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2021-10/msg00013.html
<QUOTE JS:>
Questions for everybody to consider: In the 1903 classification of the
sciences, Peirce did not mention semeiotic, the most important science
that he introduced. Why not? Where does it belong in the classification?
</QUOTE>
The short schrift on this subject may be summed up in the following syllogism.
Logic = Formal Semiotic
=======================
C.S. Peirce • On the Definition of Logic
Formal = Quasi-Necessary = Normative
====================================
C.S. Peirce • Logic as Semiotic
(It's a peculiar use, but it's Peirce's peculiar use in this context.)
Conclusion. Logic = Normative Semiotic.
========================================
Corollary. This leaves room for Descriptive Semiotic.
======================================================
Additional Notes
================
Definition and Determination • 5
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/06/02/definition-and-determination-5/
Regards,
Jon
Jon Awbrey
Dec 4, 2021, 12:16:48 PM12/4/21
to Conceptual Graphs, Cybernetic Communications, Laws of Form, Ontolog Forum, Peirce List, Structural Modeling, SysSciWG
Cf: Survey of Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • 2
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/12/02/survey-of-semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-2/
All,
Please follow the above link for an update to my Survey page on Semiotics,
adding links to more recent blog posts and repairing old links broken by
changes at WordPress and on the Web at large. It's a lot of links, so
I'll copy only a sample below.
⁂ ⁂ ⁂
This is a Survey of blog and wiki resources on the theory of signs, variously
known as “semeiotic” or “semiotics”, and the actions referred to as “semiosis”
which transform signs among themselves in relation to their objects, all as
based on C.S. Peirce’s concept of triadic “sign relations”.
Elements
========
Semeiotic
https://oeis.org/wiki/Semeiotic
Sign Relations
https://oeis.org/wiki/Sign_relation
Sources
===========
Semeiotic
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2008/07/30/semeiotic/
Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2018/12/09/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-1/
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2018/12/10/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-2/
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2018/12/11/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-3/
• Comments
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/09/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-comment-1/ ...
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/23/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-comment-4/
• Discussions
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2019/04/29/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-1/ ...
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/10/05/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-19/
Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/10/10/sign-relations-triadic-relations-relation-theory-1/
• Discussions
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/10/11/sign-relations-triadic-relations-relation-theory-discussion-1/ ...
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/12/31/sign-relations-triadic-relations-relation-theory-discussion-4/
C.S. Peirce • Algebra of Logic ∫ Philosophy of Notation
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/10/06/c-s-peirce-algebra-of-logic-%e2%88%ab-philosophy-of-notation-1/
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/10/10/c-s-peirce-algebra-of-logic-%e2%88%ab-philosophy-of-notation-2/
Blog Dialogs
============
Icon Index Symbol
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2017/04/06/icon-index-symbol-1/ ...
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/01/11/icon-index-symbol-20/
Sign Relations
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2018/01/08/sign-relations-comment-1/ ...
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2018/02/17/sign-relations-comment-12/
Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relations
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2018/05/09/sign-relations-triadic-relations-relations-1/ ...
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2018/08/24/sign-relations-triadic-relations-relations-11/
References
==========
• Awbrey, J.L., and Awbrey, S.M. (1995),
https://web.archive.org/web/20001210162300/http://chss.montclair.edu/inquiry/fall95/awbrey.html
https://www.pdcnet.org/inquiryct/content/inquiryct_1995_0015_0001_0040_0052
https://www.academia.edu/1266493/Interpretation_as_Action_The_Risk_of_Inquiry
Regards,
Jon
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/12/02/survey-of-semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-2/
All,
Please follow the above link for an update to my Survey page on Semiotics,
adding links to more recent blog posts and repairing old links broken by
changes at WordPress and on the Web at large. It's a lot of links, so
I'll copy only a sample below.
⁂ ⁂ ⁂
This is a Survey of blog and wiki resources on the theory of signs, variously
known as “semeiotic” or “semiotics”, and the actions referred to as “semiosis”
which transform signs among themselves in relation to their objects, all as
based on C.S. Peirce’s concept of triadic “sign relations”.
Elements
========
Semeiotic
https://oeis.org/wiki/Semeiotic
Sign Relations
https://oeis.org/wiki/Sign_relation
Sources
=======
C.S. Peirce • On the Definition of Logic
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/06/01/c-s-peirce-on-the-definition-of-logic/
C.S. Peirce • On the Definition of Logic
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/06/01/c-s-peirce-on-the-definition-of-logic/
C.S. Peirce • Logic as Semiotic
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/06/04/c-s-peirce-logic-as-semiotic/
Blog Series
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/06/04/c-s-peirce-logic-as-semiotic/
===========
Semeiotic
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2008/07/30/semeiotic/
Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2018/12/09/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-1/
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2018/12/10/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-2/
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2018/12/11/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-3/
• Comments
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/09/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-comment-1/ ...
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/23/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-comment-4/
• Discussions
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2019/04/29/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-1/ ...
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/10/05/semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-discussion-19/
Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/10/10/sign-relations-triadic-relations-relation-theory-1/
• Discussions
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/10/11/sign-relations-triadic-relations-relation-theory-discussion-1/ ...
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/12/31/sign-relations-triadic-relations-relation-theory-discussion-4/
C.S. Peirce • Algebra of Logic ∫ Philosophy of Notation
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/10/06/c-s-peirce-algebra-of-logic-%e2%88%ab-philosophy-of-notation-1/
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/10/10/c-s-peirce-algebra-of-logic-%e2%88%ab-philosophy-of-notation-2/
Blog Dialogs
============
Icon Index Symbol
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2017/04/06/icon-index-symbol-1/ ...
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/01/11/icon-index-symbol-20/
Sign Relations
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2018/01/08/sign-relations-comment-1/ ...
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2018/02/17/sign-relations-comment-12/
Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relations
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2018/05/09/sign-relations-triadic-relations-relations-1/ ...
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2018/08/24/sign-relations-triadic-relations-relations-11/
References
==========
• Awbrey, J.L., and Awbrey, S.M. (1995),
“Interpretation as Action : The Risk of Inquiry”,
Inquiry : Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 15(1), pp. 40–52.
https://web.archive.org/web/20001210162300/http://chss.montclair.edu/inquiry/fall95/awbrey.html
https://www.pdcnet.org/inquiryct/content/inquiryct_1995_0015_0001_0040_0052
https://www.academia.edu/1266493/Interpretation_as_Action_The_Risk_of_Inquiry
Regards,
Jon
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