[Inquiry] Re: Futures Of Logical Graphs

[Jon Awbrey]

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FOLG.  Note 53

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Arisbe List, Cybernetics List,

Toward "Logic As Sign Transformation" (concl.)

This looks like a good place to pause and take stock.
The question arises:  What's really going on here?
We have all these signs, but what's the object?

One object worth the candle is simply to study
a non-trivial example of a syntactic system,
simple in design but not entirely a toy,
just to see how these systems tick.

More than that, we would like to understand how
sign systems come to exist or come to be placed
in relation to object systems, especially those
types of object systems that give us compelling
cause or independent reason to focus thought on.

What is the utility of setting up sets of strings and sets of graphs,
and sorting them according to their "semiotic equivalence class" (SEC)
based on this or that abstract notion of transformational equivalence?

Good questions.

I can only begin to tackle these questions in the present frame of work,
and I can't hope to answer them in anything like a satisfactory fashion.
Still, it will serve to guide the work if we keep them in mind as we go.

Jon Awbrey

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