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Theme One Motivation • 5

Re: Laws Of Form Discussion • JB Re: Ontolog Forum Discussion • (1) Re: Sys Sci Group Discussion • (1) As I’m working from 40-year-old memories of these first inklings I thought I might peruse the web...

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Theme One Motivation • 6

Re: Sys Sci Group Discussion • (1) Re: Ontolog Forum Discussion • (1) Re: Laws Of Form Discussion • (1) Comments I made in reply to a correspondent’s questions about delimiters and tokenizing in the...

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Theme One Exposition • 1

Re: Systems Science Discussions • (1) • (2) Re: Ontolog Forum Discussions • (1) • (2) Re: Laws Of Form Discussions • (1) • (2) Re: Structural Modeling Discussion • (1) Theme One is a program for...

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Theme One Exposition • 2

Re: Systems Science • Structural Modeling The previous post described the elementary data structure used to represent nodes of graphs in the Theme One program.  This post describes the specific family...

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Theme One Exposition • 3

Re: Systems Science • Structural Modeling Coding Logical Graphs My earliest experiments with coding logical graphs as pointer data structures taught me that conceptual and computational efficiencies of...

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Theme One Discussion • 1

Re: Systems Science • JS Cf: Systems Science • JA Warfield gets it right about the relationship between object languages and metalanguages.  Something about the prefix meta- has contributed to a not...

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Theme One Discussion • 2

Re: Ontolog Forum • Systems Science • Structural Modeling What I’m doing this summer … Eighteen years living in the same place and we blissfully forgot what it takes to pack up a house and find a new...

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Theme One Discussion • 3

Re: Ontolog Forum • Systems Science • Structural Modeling Let me step back and talk about the research intention driving this work. In a very real sense everything I’ve been doing along this line of...

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Differential Logic, Dynamic Systems, Tangent Functors • 1

People interested in category theory as applied to systems may wish to check out the following article, reporting work I carried out while engaged in a systems engineering program at Oakland...

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Differential Logic, Dynamic Systems, Tangent Functors • Discussion 1

Re: Cybernetic Communications • Analyzing Differences of Perceptions/Constructions Susan and I just returned from our annual dramatic immersion in Stratford Ontario and the last play we saw was a...

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Differential Logic, Dynamic Systems, Tangent Functors • Discussion 2

Re: Cybernetic Communications • SU One thing that interests me here is the relation between narratives and navigation.  Navigation has to do with how we move through actual state spaces while...

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Theme One • A Program Of Inquiry : 17

Re: Ontolog Forum • (1) Re: Systems Science • (1) Re: Laws Of Form • (1) • (2) • (3) • (4) The move is all over but the unpacking, and the time looks ripe to pick up this thread from last spring....

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Differential Logic, Dynamic Systems, Tangent Functors • Discussion 3

Re: Systems Science • (1) • (2) • (3) Various discussions in various places bring back to mind this thread from early this fall, prompting me to make a try at continuing it.  Here’s a series of blog...

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Differential Logic, Dynamic Systems, Tangent Functors • Discussion 4

Re: Systems Science • LT To clarify my previous remark about General Systems Theory, I wasn’t trying to define a whole field but merely to describe my experience in forums like these, where it took me...

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Differential Logic, Dynamic Systems, Tangent Functors • Discussion 5

Re: Systems Science • JS Yes, all these strands are strongly entangled. I had already spent a full decade wrestling with the works of Charles Sanders Peirce and George Spencer Brown before my need to...

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Differential Logic, Dynamic Systems, Tangent Functors • Discussion 6

Re: Systems Science • JS A few of my readers are racing well ahead of me, exploring a range of different roads, but I’ll be making a dogged effort to stick to my math-bio-graphical narrative this time...

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Differential Logic, Dynamic Systems, Tangent Functors • Discussion 7

Re: Systems Science • JS Let’s stand back from the picture and see how the dimensions of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics look from a pragmatic semiotic or sign relational perspective. is an object...

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Differential Logic, Dynamic Systems, Tangent Functors • Discussion 8

Re: Systems Science • LT It’s been a while since I started this thread, with many sidetrips and tangents, so let me go back to the top and expand on the motivations I expressed there, addressing a few...

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Animated Logical Graphs • 22

The step of controlled reflection we just took can be repeated at will, as suggested by the following series of forms: Written inline, we have the series and so on, whose general form is   With this...

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Animated Logical Graphs • 23

The following Table will suffice to show how the “streamer-cross” forms C.S. Peirce used in his essay on “Qualitative Logic” and Spencer Brown used in his Laws of Form, as they are extended through...

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