Cf: Logical Graphs • Discussion 1
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/07/28/logical-graphs-discussion-1/
Re: Laws of Form
https://groups.io/g/lawsofform/topic/software_for_lof/84501600
::: John Mingers (
https://groups.io/g/lawsofform/message/559
<QUOTE JM:>
I find it very frustrating not to be able to draw crosses and
expressions within emails or Word documents. Does anyone know
of any software or apps that can do this? If not, with so many
computer scientists on this group, could someone produce something?
</QUOTE>
Dear John, All …
People with backgrounds in computing, combinatorics, or graph theory
would immediately recognize Spencer Brown's expressions are isomorphic
to what graph theorists know and love as “trees”, more specifically
“rooted trees”, with a particular manner of attaching letters to the
nodes to be described later. In those fields there's a standard way
of mapping trees to strings of parentheses and letters. This operation
is called “traversing the tree” when one passes from trees to strings
and the reverse operation is called “parsing” when one passes from
strings to “parse trees”.
The transformation of Spencer Brown's simple closed figures in the plane,
or his formal expressions of “crosses”, into rooted trees, together with
the further transformation of those two forms to “pointer data structures”
in computer memory is discussed in the following post on my blog.
• Logical Graphs • Introduction
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2008/07/29/logical-graphs-1/
There's a more formal presentation of logical graphs, working from
the axioms or “initials” I borrowed with modifications from Peirce
and Spencer Brown, in the following blog post.
• Logical Graphs • Formal Development
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2008/09/19/logical-graphs-2/
Those two pieces are combined and extended in the following article.
• Logical Graphs (
https://oeis.org/wiki/Logical_Graphs
The program I developed all through the 80s using those data structures
in its logic module is documented so far as I've managed at this point
on the following page.
• Survey of Theme One Program
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/08/28/survey-of-theme-one-program-3/
Regards,
Jon