[Inquiry] Re: Futures Of Logical Graphs

[Jon Awbrey]

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FOLG.  Note 62

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Arisbe List, Cybernetics List,

I need to say something about the concept of "reflection"
that I've been using according to my informal intuitions
about it at numerous points in this discussion.  This is,
of course, distinct from the use of the word "reflection"
to license an application of the double negation theorem.

Generally speaking, I think of reflection in connection with any
sort of system that has any sort of order relation defined on it,
and I think of the system in question as manifesting "reflection"
in proportion to the extent that statements about that order can
be found to be reflected in elements of that order.  Accordingly,
it must be possible to interpret certain elements of the ordered
system as making statements about the order in which they reside.

More on that later,
as many delightful
distractions take
their precedence
in the order
of the day.

Jon Awbrey

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