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  1. 🔮✨ Oh, the profound wisdom of Brian—agents need control flow, not more prompts! Because clearly, the software industry's been too busy writing poetic prompts instead of, you know, actual code. 🤦‍♂️ But hey, why scale with functional logic when you can just dream it all into existence? 💭🚀
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  2. Differential Logic • 18

    Tangent and Remainder Maps

    If we follow the classical line which singles out linear functions as ideals of simplicity then we may complete the analytic series of the proposition in the following way.

    The next venn diagram shows the differential proposition we get by extracting the linear approximation to the difference map at each cell or point of the universe   What results is the logical analogue of what would ordinarily be called the differential of but since the adjective differential is being attached to just about everything in sight the alternative name tangent map is commonly used for whenever it’s necessary to single it out.


    To be clear about what’s being indicated here, it’s a visual way of summarizing the following data.

    To understand the extended interpretations, that is, the conjunctions of basic and differential features which are being indicated here, it may help to note the following equivalences.

    Capping the analysis of the proposition in terms of succeeding orders of linear propositions, the final venn diagram of the series shows the remainder map which happens to be linear in pairs of variables.


    Reading the arrows off the map produces the following data.

    In short, is a constant field, having the value at each cell.

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  3. Differential Logic • 18

    Tangent and Remainder Maps

    If we follow the classical line which singles out linear functions as ideals of simplicity then we may complete the analytic series of the proposition in the following way.

    The next venn diagram shows the differential proposition we get by extracting the linear approximation to the difference map at each cell or point of the universe   What results is the logical analogue of what would ordinarily be called the differential of but since the adjective differential is being attached to just about everything in sight the alternative name tangent map is commonly used for whenever it’s necessary to single it out.


    To be clear about what’s being indicated here, it’s a visual way of summarizing the following data.

    To understand the extended interpretations, that is, the conjunctions of basic and differential features which are being indicated here, it may help to note the following equivalences.

    Capping the analysis of the proposition in terms of succeeding orders of linear propositions, the final venn diagram of the series shows the remainder map which happens to be linear in pairs of variables.


    Reading the arrows off the map produces the following data.

    In short, is a constant field, having the value at each cell.

    Resources

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  4. Differential Logic • 18

    Tangent and Remainder Maps

    If we follow the classical line which singles out linear functions as ideals of simplicity then we may complete the analytic series of the proposition in the following way.

    The next venn diagram shows the differential proposition we get by extracting the linear approximation to the difference map at each cell or point of the universe   What results is the logical analogue of what would ordinarily be called the differential of but since the adjective differential is being attached to just about everything in sight the alternative name tangent map is commonly used for whenever it’s necessary to single it out.


    To be clear about what’s being indicated here, it’s a visual way of summarizing the following data.

    To understand the extended interpretations, that is, the conjunctions of basic and differential features which are being indicated here, it may help to note the following equivalences.

    Capping the analysis of the proposition in terms of succeeding orders of linear propositions, the final venn diagram of the series shows the remainder map which happens to be linear in pairs of variables.


    Reading the arrows off the map produces the following data.

    In short, is a constant field, having the value at each cell.

    Resources

    cc: Academia.eduCyberneticsLaws of Form • Mathstodon (1) (2)
    cc: Research GateStructural ModelingSystems ScienceSyscoi

    #Amphecks #Animata #BooleanAlgebra #BooleanFunctions #CSPeirce #CactusGraphs #Change #Cybernetics #DifferentialCalculus #DifferentialLogic #DiscreteDynamics #EquationalInference #FunctionalLogic #GradientDescent #GraphTheory #InquiryDrivenSystems #Logic #LogicalGraphs #Mathematics #MinimalNegationOperators #PropositionalCalculus #Time #Visualization
  5. Differential Logic • 18

    Tangent and Remainder Maps

    If we follow the classical line which singles out linear functions as ideals of simplicity then we may complete the analytic series of the proposition in the following way.

    The next venn diagram shows the differential proposition we get by extracting the linear approximation to the difference map at each cell or point of the universe   What results is the logical analogue of what would ordinarily be called the differential of but since the adjective differential is being attached to just about everything in sight the alternative name tangent map is commonly used for whenever it’s necessary to single it out.


    To be clear about what’s being indicated here, it’s a visual way of summarizing the following data.

    To understand the extended interpretations, that is, the conjunctions of basic and differential features which are being indicated here, it may help to note the following equivalences.

    Capping the analysis of the proposition in terms of succeeding orders of linear propositions, the final venn diagram of the series shows the remainder map which happens to be linear in pairs of variables.


    Reading the arrows off the map produces the following data.

    In short, is a constant field, having the value at each cell.

    Resources

    cc: Academia.eduCyberneticsLaws of Form • Mathstodon (1) (2)
    cc: Research GateStructural ModelingSystems ScienceSyscoi

    #Amphecks #Animata #BooleanAlgebra #BooleanFunctions #CSPeirce #CactusGraphs #Change #Cybernetics #DifferentialCalculus #DifferentialLogic #DiscreteDynamics #EquationalInference #FunctionalLogic #GradientDescent #GraphTheory #InquiryDrivenSystems #Logic #LogicalGraphs #Mathematics #MinimalNegationOperators #PropositionalCalculus #Time #Visualization
  6. Differential Logic • 18

    Tangent and Remainder Maps

    If we follow the classical line which singles out linear functions as ideals of simplicity then we may complete the analytic series of the proposition in the following way.

    The next venn diagram shows the differential proposition we get by extracting the linear approximation to the difference map at each cell or point of the universe   What results is the logical analogue of what would ordinarily be called the differential of but since the adjective differential is being attached to just about everything in sight the alternative name tangent map is commonly used for whenever it’s necessary to single it out.


    To be clear about what’s being indicated here, it’s a visual way of summarizing the following data.

    To understand the extended interpretations, that is, the conjunctions of basic and differential features which are being indicated here, it may help to note the following equivalences.

    Capping the analysis of the proposition in terms of succeeding orders of linear propositions, the final venn diagram of the series shows the remainder map which happens to be linear in pairs of variables.


    Reading the arrows off the map produces the following data.

    In short, is a constant field, having the value at each cell.

    Resources

    cc: Academia.eduCyberneticsLaws of Form • Mathstodon (1) (2)
    cc: Research GateStructural ModelingSystems ScienceSyscoi

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  7. Differential Logic • 17

    Enlargement and Difference Maps

    Continuing with the example the following venn diagram shows the enlargement or shift map in the same style of field picture we drew for the tacit extension


    A very important conceptual transition has just occurred here, almost tacitly, as it were.  Generally speaking, having a set of mathematical objects of compatible types, in this case the two differential fields and both of the type is very useful, because it allows us to consider those fields as integral mathematical objects which can be operated on and combined in the ways we usually associate with algebras.

    In the present case one notices the tacit extension and the enlargement are in a sense dual to each other.  The tacit extension indicates all the arrows out of the region where is true and the enlargement indicates all the arrows into the region where is true.  The only arc they have in common is the no‑change loop at   If we add the two sets of arcs in mod 2 fashion then the loop of multiplicity 2 zeroes out, leaving the 6 arrows of shown in the following venn diagram.


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  8. Differential Logic • 17

    Enlargement and Difference Maps

    Continuing with the example the following venn diagram shows the enlargement or shift map in the same style of field picture we drew for the tacit extension


    A very important conceptual transition has just occurred here, almost tacitly, as it were.  Generally speaking, having a set of mathematical objects of compatible types, in this case the two differential fields and both of the type is very useful, because it allows us to consider those fields as integral mathematical objects which can be operated on and combined in the ways we usually associate with algebras.

    In the present case one notices the tacit extension and the enlargement are in a sense dual to each other.  The tacit extension indicates all the arrows out of the region where is true and the enlargement indicates all the arrows into the region where is true.  The only arc they have in common is the no‑change loop at   If we add the two sets of arcs in mod 2 fashion then the loop of multiplicity 2 zeroes out, leaving the 6 arrows of shown in the following venn diagram.


    Resources

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    #Amphecks #Animata #BooleanAlgebra #BooleanFunctions #CSPeirce #CactusGraphs #Change #Cybernetics #DifferentialCalculus #DifferentialLogic #DiscreteDynamics #EquationalInference #FunctionalLogic #GradientDescent #GraphTheory #InquiryDrivenSystems #Logic #LogicalGraphs #Mathematics #MinimalNegationOperators #PropositionalCalculus #Time #Visualization
  9. Differential Logic • 17

    Enlargement and Difference Maps

    Continuing with the example the following venn diagram shows the enlargement or shift map in the same style of field picture we drew for the tacit extension


    A very important conceptual transition has just occurred here, almost tacitly, as it were.  Generally speaking, having a set of mathematical objects of compatible types, in this case the two differential fields and both of the type is very useful, because it allows us to consider those fields as integral mathematical objects which can be operated on and combined in the ways we usually associate with algebras.

    In the present case one notices the tacit extension and the enlargement are in a sense dual to each other.  The tacit extension indicates all the arrows out of the region where is true and the enlargement indicates all the arrows into the region where is true.  The only arc they have in common is the no‑change loop at   If we add the two sets of arcs in mod 2 fashion then the loop of multiplicity 2 zeroes out, leaving the 6 arrows of shown in the following venn diagram.


    Resources

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  10. Differential Logic • 17

    Enlargement and Difference Maps

    Continuing with the example the following venn diagram shows the enlargement or shift map in the same style of field picture we drew for the tacit extension


    A very important conceptual transition has just occurred here, almost tacitly, as it were.  Generally speaking, having a set of mathematical objects of compatible types, in this case the two differential fields and both of the type is very useful, because it allows us to consider those fields as integral mathematical objects which can be operated on and combined in the ways we usually associate with algebras.

    In the present case one notices the tacit extension and the enlargement are in a sense dual to each other.  The tacit extension indicates all the arrows out of the region where is true and the enlargement indicates all the arrows into the region where is true.  The only arc they have in common is the no‑change loop at   If we add the two sets of arcs in mod 2 fashion then the loop of multiplicity 2 zeroes out, leaving the 6 arrows of shown in the following venn diagram.


    Resources

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  11. Differential Logic • 17

    Enlargement and Difference Maps

    Continuing with the example the following venn diagram shows the enlargement or shift map in the same style of field picture we drew for the tacit extension


    A very important conceptual transition has just occurred here, almost tacitly, as it were.  Generally speaking, having a set of mathematical objects of compatible types, in this case the two differential fields and both of the type is very useful, because it allows us to consider those fields as integral mathematical objects which can be operated on and combined in the ways we usually associate with algebras.

    In the present case one notices the tacit extension and the enlargement are in a sense dual to each other.  The tacit extension indicates all the arrows out of the region where is true and the enlargement indicates all the arrows into the region where is true.  The only arc they have in common is the no‑change loop at   If we add the two sets of arcs in mod 2 fashion then the loop of multiplicity 2 zeroes out, leaving the 6 arrows of shown in the following venn diagram.


    Resources

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    #Amphecks #Animata #BooleanAlgebra #BooleanFunctions #CSPeirce #CactusGraphs #Change #Cybernetics #DifferentialCalculus #DifferentialLogic #DiscreteDynamics #EquationalInference #FunctionalLogic #GradientDescent #GraphTheory #InquiryDrivenSystems #Logic #LogicalGraphs #Mathematics #MinimalNegationOperators #PropositionalCalculus #Time #Visualization
  12. Differential Logic • 15

    Differential Fields

    The structure of a differential field may be described as follows.  With each point of there is associated an object of the following type:  a proposition about changes in that is, a proposition   In that frame of reference, if is the universe generated by the set of coordinate propositions then is the differential universe generated by the set of differential propositions   The differential propositions and may thus be interpreted as indicating and respectively.

    A differential operator of the first order type we are currently considering, takes a proposition and gives back a differential proposition   In the field view of the scene, we see the proposition as a scalar field and we see the differential proposition as a vector field, specifically, a field of propositions about contemplated changes in

    The field of changes produced by on is shown in the following venn diagram.


    The differential field specifies the changes which need to be made from each point of in order to reach one of the models of the proposition that is, in order to satisfy the proposition

    The field of changes produced by on is shown in the following venn diagram.


    The differential field specifies the changes which need to be made from each point of in order to feel a change in the felt value of the field

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  13. Differential Logic • 15

    Differential Fields

    The structure of a differential field may be described as follows.  With each point of there is associated an object of the following type:  a proposition about changes in that is, a proposition   In that frame of reference, if is the universe generated by the set of coordinate propositions then is the differential universe generated by the set of differential propositions   The differential propositions and may thus be interpreted as indicating and respectively.

    A differential operator of the first order type we are currently considering, takes a proposition and gives back a differential proposition   In the field view of the scene, we see the proposition as a scalar field and we see the differential proposition as a vector field, specifically, a field of propositions about contemplated changes in

    The field of changes produced by on is shown in the following venn diagram.


    The differential field specifies the changes which need to be made from each point of in order to reach one of the models of the proposition that is, in order to satisfy the proposition

    The field of changes produced by on is shown in the following venn diagram.


    The differential field specifies the changes which need to be made from each point of in order to feel a change in the felt value of the field

    Resources

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  14. Differential Logic • 15

    Differential Fields

    The structure of a differential field may be described as follows.  With each point of there is associated an object of the following type:  a proposition about changes in that is, a proposition   In that frame of reference, if is the universe generated by the set of coordinate propositions then is the differential universe generated by the set of differential propositions   The differential propositions and may thus be interpreted as indicating and respectively.

    A differential operator of the first order type we are currently considering, takes a proposition and gives back a differential proposition   In the field view of the scene, we see the proposition as a scalar field and we see the differential proposition as a vector field, specifically, a field of propositions about contemplated changes in

    The field of changes produced by on is shown in the following venn diagram.


    The differential field specifies the changes which need to be made from each point of in order to reach one of the models of the proposition that is, in order to satisfy the proposition

    The field of changes produced by on is shown in the following venn diagram.


    The differential field specifies the changes which need to be made from each point of in order to feel a change in the felt value of the field

    Resources

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  15. Differential Logic • 15

    Differential Fields

    The structure of a differential field may be described as follows.  With each point of there is associated an object of the following type:  a proposition about changes in that is, a proposition   In that frame of reference, if is the universe generated by the set of coordinate propositions then is the differential universe generated by the set of differential propositions   The differential propositions and may thus be interpreted as indicating and respectively.

    A differential operator of the first order type we are currently considering, takes a proposition and gives back a differential proposition   In the field view of the scene, we see the proposition as a scalar field and we see the differential proposition as a vector field, specifically, a field of propositions about contemplated changes in

    The field of changes produced by on is shown in the following venn diagram.


    The differential field specifies the changes which need to be made from each point of in order to reach one of the models of the proposition that is, in order to satisfy the proposition

    The field of changes produced by on is shown in the following venn diagram.


    The differential field specifies the changes which need to be made from each point of in order to feel a change in the felt value of the field

    Resources

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  16. Differential Logic • 15

    Differential Fields

    The structure of a differential field may be described as follows.  With each point of there is associated an object of the following type:  a proposition about changes in that is, a proposition   In that frame of reference, if is the universe generated by the set of coordinate propositions then is the differential universe generated by the set of differential propositions   The differential propositions and may thus be interpreted as indicating and respectively.

    A differential operator of the first order type we are currently considering, takes a proposition and gives back a differential proposition   In the field view of the scene, we see the proposition as a scalar field and we see the differential proposition as a vector field, specifically, a field of propositions about contemplated changes in

    The field of changes produced by on is shown in the following venn diagram.


    The differential field specifies the changes which need to be made from each point of in order to reach one of the models of the proposition that is, in order to satisfy the proposition

    The field of changes produced by on is shown in the following venn diagram.


    The differential field specifies the changes which need to be made from each point of in order to feel a change in the felt value of the field

    Resources

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  17. Differential Logic • 14

    Field Picture

    Let us summarize the outlook on differential logic we’ve reached so far.  We’ve been considering a class of operators on universes of discourse, each of which takes us from considering one universe of discourse to considering a larger universe of discourse   An operator of that general type, namely, acts on each proposition of the source universe to produce a proposition of the target universe

    The operators we’ve examined so far are the enlargement or shift operator and the difference operator   The operators and act on propositions in that is, propositions of the form which amount to propositions about the subject matter of and they produce propositions of the form which amount to propositions about specified collections of changes conceivably occurring in

    At this point we find ourselves in need of visual representations, suitable arrays of concrete pictures to anchor our more earthy intuitions and help us keep our wits about us as we venture into ever more rarefied airs of abstraction.

    One good picture comes to us by way of the field concept.  Given a space a field of a specified type over is formed by associating with each point of an object of type   If that sounds like the same thing as a function from to the space of things of type — it is nothing but — and yet it does seem helpful to vary the mental images and take advantage of the figures of speech most naturally springing to mind under the emblem of the field idea.

    In the field picture a proposition becomes a scalar field, that is, a field of values in

    For example, consider the logical conjunction shown in the following venn diagram.


    Each of the operators takes us from considering propositions here viewed as scalar fields over to considering the corresponding differential fields over analogous to what in real analysis are usually called vector fields over

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  18. Differential Logic • 14

    Field Picture

    Let us summarize the outlook on differential logic we’ve reached so far.  We’ve been considering a class of operators on universes of discourse, each of which takes us from considering one universe of discourse to considering a larger universe of discourse   An operator of that general type, namely, acts on each proposition of the source universe to produce a proposition of the target universe

    The operators we’ve examined so far are the enlargement or shift operator and the difference operator   The operators and act on propositions in that is, propositions of the form which amount to propositions about the subject matter of and they produce propositions of the form which amount to propositions about specified collections of changes conceivably occurring in

    At this point we find ourselves in need of visual representations, suitable arrays of concrete pictures to anchor our more earthy intuitions and help us keep our wits about us as we venture into ever more rarefied airs of abstraction.

    One good picture comes to us by way of the field concept.  Given a space a field of a specified type over is formed by associating with each point of an object of type   If that sounds like the same thing as a function from to the space of things of type — it is nothing but — and yet it does seem helpful to vary the mental images and take advantage of the figures of speech most naturally springing to mind under the emblem of the field idea.

    In the field picture a proposition becomes a scalar field, that is, a field of values in

    For example, consider the logical conjunction shown in the following venn diagram.


    Each of the operators takes us from considering propositions here viewed as scalar fields over to considering the corresponding differential fields over analogous to what in real analysis are usually called vector fields over

    Resources

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  19. Differential Logic • 14

    Field Picture

    Let us summarize the outlook on differential logic we’ve reached so far.  We’ve been considering a class of operators on universes of discourse, each of which takes us from considering one universe of discourse to considering a larger universe of discourse   An operator of that general type, namely, acts on each proposition of the source universe to produce a proposition of the target universe

    The operators we’ve examined so far are the enlargement or shift operator and the difference operator   The operators and act on propositions in that is, propositions of the form which amount to propositions about the subject matter of and they produce propositions of the form which amount to propositions about specified collections of changes conceivably occurring in

    At this point we find ourselves in need of visual representations, suitable arrays of concrete pictures to anchor our more earthy intuitions and help us keep our wits about us as we venture into ever more rarefied airs of abstraction.

    One good picture comes to us by way of the field concept.  Given a space a field of a specified type over is formed by associating with each point of an object of type   If that sounds like the same thing as a function from to the space of things of type — it is nothing but — and yet it does seem helpful to vary the mental images and take advantage of the figures of speech most naturally springing to mind under the emblem of the field idea.

    In the field picture a proposition becomes a scalar field, that is, a field of values in

    For example, consider the logical conjunction shown in the following venn diagram.


    Each of the operators takes us from considering propositions here viewed as scalar fields over to considering the corresponding differential fields over analogous to what in real analysis are usually called vector fields over

    Resources

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  20. Differential Logic • 14

    Field Picture

    Let us summarize the outlook on differential logic we’ve reached so far.  We’ve been considering a class of operators on universes of discourse, each of which takes us from considering one universe of discourse to considering a larger universe of discourse   An operator of that general type, namely, acts on each proposition of the source universe to produce a proposition of the target universe

    The operators we’ve examined so far are the enlargement or shift operator and the difference operator   The operators and act on propositions in that is, propositions of the form which amount to propositions about the subject matter of and they produce propositions of the form which amount to propositions about specified collections of changes conceivably occurring in

    At this point we find ourselves in need of visual representations, suitable arrays of concrete pictures to anchor our more earthy intuitions and help us keep our wits about us as we venture into ever more rarefied airs of abstraction.

    One good picture comes to us by way of the field concept.  Given a space a field of a specified type over is formed by associating with each point of an object of type   If that sounds like the same thing as a function from to the space of things of type — it is nothing but — and yet it does seem helpful to vary the mental images and take advantage of the figures of speech most naturally springing to mind under the emblem of the field idea.

    In the field picture a proposition becomes a scalar field, that is, a field of values in

    For example, consider the logical conjunction shown in the following venn diagram.


    Each of the operators takes us from considering propositions here viewed as scalar fields over to considering the corresponding differential fields over analogous to what in real analysis are usually called vector fields over

    Resources

    cc: Academia.eduCyberneticsLaws of Form • Mathstodon (1) (2)
    cc: Research GateStructural ModelingSystems ScienceSyscoi

    #Amphecks #Animata #BooleanAlgebra #BooleanFunctions #CSPeirce #CactusGraphs #Change #Cybernetics #DifferentialCalculus #DifferentialLogic #DiscreteDynamics #EquationalInference #FunctionalLogic #GradientDescent #GraphTheory #InquiryDrivenSystems #Logic #LogicalGraphs #Mathematics #MinimalNegationOperators #PropositionalCalculus #Time #Visualization
  21. Differential Logic • 14

    Field Picture

    Let us summarize the outlook on differential logic we’ve reached so far.  We’ve been considering a class of operators on universes of discourse, each of which takes us from considering one universe of discourse to considering a larger universe of discourse   An operator of that general type, namely, acts on each proposition of the source universe to produce a proposition of the target universe

    The operators we’ve examined so far are the enlargement or shift operator and the difference operator   The operators and act on propositions in that is, propositions of the form which amount to propositions about the subject matter of and they produce propositions of the form which amount to propositions about specified collections of changes conceivably occurring in

    At this point we find ourselves in need of visual representations, suitable arrays of concrete pictures to anchor our more earthy intuitions and help us keep our wits about us as we venture into ever more rarefied airs of abstraction.

    One good picture comes to us by way of the field concept.  Given a space a field of a specified type over is formed by associating with each point of an object of type   If that sounds like the same thing as a function from to the space of things of type — it is nothing but — and yet it does seem helpful to vary the mental images and take advantage of the figures of speech most naturally springing to mind under the emblem of the field idea.

    In the field picture a proposition becomes a scalar field, that is, a field of values in

    For example, consider the logical conjunction shown in the following venn diagram.


    Each of the operators takes us from considering propositions here viewed as scalar fields over to considering the corresponding differential fields over analogous to what in real analysis are usually called vector fields over

    Resources

    cc: Academia.eduCyberneticsLaws of Form • Mathstodon (1) (2)
    cc: Research GateStructural ModelingSystems ScienceSyscoi

    #Amphecks #Animata #BooleanAlgebra #BooleanFunctions #CSPeirce #CactusGraphs #Change #Cybernetics #DifferentialCalculus #DifferentialLogic #DiscreteDynamics #EquationalInference #FunctionalLogic #GradientDescent #GraphTheory #InquiryDrivenSystems #Logic #LogicalGraphs #Mathematics #MinimalNegationOperators #PropositionalCalculus #Time #Visualization
  22. Survey of Precursors Of Category Theory • 6
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/05

    A few years ago I began a sketch on the “Precursors of Category Theory”, tracing the continuities of the category concept from Aristotle, to Kant and Peirce, through Hilbert and Ackermann, to contemporary mathematical practice. A Survey of resources on the topic is given below, still very rough and incomplete, but perhaps a few will find it of use.

    Background —

    Precursors Of Category Theory
    oeis.org/wiki/Precursors_Of_Ca

    Propositions As Types Analogy
    oeis.org/wiki/Propositions_As_

    Blog Series —

    Notes On Categories
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2013/02

    Precursors Of Category Theory
    1. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/05
    2. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/05
    3. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/05
    4. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/05
    5. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/05
    6. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/05

    Precursors Of Category Theory • Discussion
    1. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/09
    2. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/09
    3. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/09

    Categories à la Peirce —

    C.S. Peirce • A Guess at the Riddle
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/03

    Peirce's Categories
    1. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2015/10
    2. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2015/10
    3. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2015/11
    •••
    19. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/05
    20. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/05
    21. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/06

    C.S. Peirce and Category Theory
    1. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/06
    2. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/06
    3. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/06
    4. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/06
    5. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/06
    6. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/06
    7. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/07
    8. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/07

    #Aristotle #Peirce #Kant #Carnap #Hilbert #Ackermann #SaundersMacLane
    #Abstraction #Analogy #CategoryTheory #FunctionalLogic #RelationTheory
    #PrecursorsOfCategoryTheory #PropositionsAsTypes #Semiotics #TypeTheory

  23. Differential Propositional Calculus • 10

    Special Classes of Propositions (cont.)

    Let’s pause at this point and get a better sense of how our special classes of propositions are structured and how they relate to propositions in general.  We can do this by recruiting our visual imaginations and drawing up a sufficient budget of venn diagrams for each family of propositions.  The case for 3 variables is exemplary enough for a start.

    Linear Propositions

    The linear propositions, may be written as sums:

    One thing to keep in mind about these sums is that the values in are added “modulo 2”, that is, in such a way that

    In a universe of discourse based on three boolean variables, the linear propositions take the shapes shown in Figure 8.


    At the top is the venn diagram for the linear proposition of rank 3, which may be expressed by any one of the following three forms.

    Next are the venn diagrams for the three linear propositions of rank 2, which may be expressed by the following three forms, respectively.

    Next are the three linear propositions of rank 1, which are none other than the three basic propositions,

    At the bottom is the linear proposition of rank 0, the everywhere false proposition or the constant function, which may be expressed by the form or by a simple

    Resources

    cc: Academia.eduCyberneticsStructural ModelingSystems Science
    cc: Conceptual GraphsLaws of FormMathstodonResearch Gate

    #Amphecks #Animata #BooleanAlgebra #BooleanFunctions #CSPeirce #CactusGraphs #CategoryTheory #Change #Cybernetics #DifferentialAnalyticTuringAutomata #DifferentialCalculus #DifferentialLogic #DiscreteDynamics #EquationalInference #FunctionalLogic #GraphTheory #Hologrammautomaton #IndicatorFunctions #InquiryDrivenSystems #Leibniz #Logic #LogicalGraphs #Mathematics #MinimalNegationOperators #PropositionalCalculus #Time #Topology #Visualization

  24. Differential Propositional Calculus • 10

    Special Classes of Propositions (cont.)

    Let’s pause at this point and get a better sense of how our special classes of propositions are structured and how they relate to propositions in general.  We can do this by recruiting our visual imaginations and drawing up a sufficient budget of venn diagrams for each family of propositions.  The case for 3 variables is exemplary enough for a start.

    Linear Propositions

    The linear propositions, may be written as sums:

    One thing to keep in mind about these sums is that the values in are added “modulo 2”, that is, in such a way that

    In a universe of discourse based on three boolean variables, the linear propositions take the shapes shown in Figure 8.


    At the top is the venn diagram for the linear proposition of rank 3, which may be expressed by any one of the following three forms.

    Next are the venn diagrams for the three linear propositions of rank 2, which may be expressed by the following three forms, respectively.

    Next are the three linear propositions of rank 1, which are none other than the three basic propositions,

    At the bottom is the linear proposition of rank 0, the everywhere false proposition or the constant function, which may be expressed by the form or by a simple

    Resources

    cc: Academia.eduCyberneticsStructural ModelingSystems Science
    cc: Conceptual GraphsLaws of FormMathstodonResearch Gate

    #Amphecks #Animata #BooleanAlgebra #BooleanFunctions #CSPeirce #CactusGraphs #CategoryTheory #Change #Cybernetics #DifferentialAnalyticTuringAutomata #DifferentialCalculus #DifferentialLogic #DiscreteDynamics #EquationalInference #FunctionalLogic #GraphTheory #Hologrammautomaton #IndicatorFunctions #InquiryDrivenSystems #Leibniz #Logic #LogicalGraphs #Mathematics #MinimalNegationOperators #PropositionalCalculus #Time #Topology #Visualization

  25. Differential Propositional Calculus • 10

    Special Classes of Propositions (cont.)

    Let’s pause at this point and get a better sense of how our special classes of propositions are structured and how they relate to propositions in general.  We can do this by recruiting our visual imaginations and drawing up a sufficient budget of venn diagrams for each family of propositions.  The case for 3 variables is exemplary enough for a start.

    Linear Propositions

    The linear propositions, may be written as sums:

    One thing to keep in mind about these sums is that the values in are added “modulo 2”, that is, in such a way that

    In a universe of discourse based on three boolean variables, the linear propositions take the shapes shown in Figure 8.


    At the top is the venn diagram for the linear proposition of rank 3, which may be expressed by any one of the following three forms.

    Next are the venn diagrams for the three linear propositions of rank 2, which may be expressed by the following three forms, respectively.

    Next are the three linear propositions of rank 1, which are none other than the three basic propositions,

    At the bottom is the linear proposition of rank 0, the everywhere false proposition or the constant function, which may be expressed by the form or by a simple

    Resources

    cc: Academia.eduCyberneticsStructural ModelingSystems Science
    cc: Conceptual GraphsLaws of FormMathstodonResearch Gate

    #Amphecks #Animata #BooleanAlgebra #BooleanFunctions #CSPeirce #CactusGraphs #CategoryTheory #Change #Cybernetics #DifferentialAnalyticTuringAutomata #DifferentialCalculus #DifferentialLogic #DiscreteDynamics #EquationalInference #FunctionalLogic #GraphTheory #Hologrammautomaton #IndicatorFunctions #InquiryDrivenSystems #Leibniz #Logic #LogicalGraphs #Mathematics #MinimalNegationOperators #PropositionalCalculus #Time #Topology #Visualization

  26. Differential Propositional Calculus • 10

    Special Classes of Propositions (cont.)

    Let’s pause at this point and get a better sense of how our special classes of propositions are structured and how they relate to propositions in general.  We can do this by recruiting our visual imaginations and drawing up a sufficient budget of venn diagrams for each family of propositions.  The case for 3 variables is exemplary enough for a start.

    Linear Propositions

    The linear propositions, may be written as sums:

    One thing to keep in mind about these sums is that the values in are added “modulo 2”, that is, in such a way that

    In a universe of discourse based on three boolean variables, the linear propositions take the shapes shown in Figure 8.


    At the top is the venn diagram for the linear proposition of rank 3, which may be expressed by any one of the following three forms.

    Next are the venn diagrams for the three linear propositions of rank 2, which may be expressed by the following three forms, respectively.

    Next are the three linear propositions of rank 1, which are none other than the three basic propositions,

    At the bottom is the linear proposition of rank 0, the everywhere false proposition or the constant function, which may be expressed by the form or by a simple

    Resources

    cc: Academia.eduCyberneticsStructural ModelingSystems Science
    cc: Conceptual GraphsLaws of FormMathstodonResearch Gate

    #Amphecks #Animata #BooleanAlgebra #BooleanFunctions #CSPeirce #CactusGraphs #CategoryTheory #Change #Cybernetics #DifferentialAnalyticTuringAutomata #DifferentialCalculus #DifferentialLogic #DiscreteDynamics #EquationalInference #FunctionalLogic #GraphTheory #Hologrammautomaton #IndicatorFunctions #InquiryDrivenSystems #Leibniz #Logic #LogicalGraphs #Mathematics #MinimalNegationOperators #PropositionalCalculus #Time #Topology #Visualization

  27. Differential Propositional Calculus • 10

    Special Classes of Propositions (cont.)

    Let’s pause at this point and get a better sense of how our special classes of propositions are structured and how they relate to propositions in general.  We can do this by recruiting our visual imaginations and drawing up a sufficient budget of venn diagrams for each family of propositions.  The case for 3 variables is exemplary enough for a start.

    Linear Propositions

    The linear propositions, may be written as sums:

    One thing to keep in mind about these sums is that the values in are added “modulo 2”, that is, in such a way that

    In a universe of discourse based on three boolean variables, the linear propositions take the shapes shown in Figure 8.


    At the top is the venn diagram for the linear proposition of rank 3, which may be expressed by any one of the following three forms.

    Next are the venn diagrams for the three linear propositions of rank 2, which may be expressed by the following three forms, respectively.

    Next are the three linear propositions of rank 1, which are none other than the three basic propositions,

    At the bottom is the linear proposition of rank 0, the everywhere false proposition or the constant function, which may be expressed by the form or by a simple

    Resources

    cc: Academia.eduCyberneticsStructural ModelingSystems Science
    cc: Conceptual GraphsLaws of FormMathstodonResearch Gate

    #Amphecks #Animata #BooleanAlgebra #BooleanFunctions #CSPeirce #CactusGraphs #CategoryTheory #Change #Cybernetics #DifferentialAnalyticTuringAutomata #DifferentialCalculus #DifferentialLogic #DiscreteDynamics #EquationalInference #FunctionalLogic #GraphTheory #Hologrammautomaton #IndicatorFunctions #InquiryDrivenSystems #Leibniz #Logic #LogicalGraphs #Mathematics #MinimalNegationOperators #PropositionalCalculus #Time #Topology #Visualization

  28. Precursors Of Category Theory • 3
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/05

    ❝Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.❞

    — Immanuel Kant (1785)

    C.S. Peirce • “On a New List of Categories” (1867)

    ❝§1. This paper is based upon the theory already established, that the function of conceptions is to reduce the manifold of sensuous impressions to unity, and that the validity of a conception consists in the impossibility of reducing the content of consciousness to unity without the introduction of it.❞ (CP 1.545).

    ❝§2. This theory gives rise to a conception of gradation among those conceptions which are universal. For one such conception may unite the manifold of sense and yet another may be required to unite the conception and the manifold to which it is applied; and so on.❞ (CP 1.546).

    Cued by Kant's idea regarding the function of concepts in general, Peirce locates his categories on the highest levels of abstraction able to provide a meaningful measure of traction in practice. Whether successive grades of conceptions converge to an absolute unity or not is a question to be pursued as inquiry progresses and need not be answered in order to begin.

    Resources —

    Precursors Of Category Theory
    oeis.org/wiki/Precursors_Of_Ca

    Propositions As Types Analogy
    oeis.org/wiki/Propositions_As_

    Survey of Precursors Of Category Theory
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/05

    #Aristotle #Peirce #Kant #Carnap #Hilbert #Ackermann #SaundersMacLane
    #Abstraction #Analogy #CategoryTheory #Diagrams #FoundationsOfMathematics
    #FunctionalLogic #RelationTheory #ContinuousPredicate #HypostaticAbstraction
    #CategoryTheory #PeircesCategories #PropositionsAsTypes #TypeTheory #Universals

  29. Precursors Of Category Theory • 2.3
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/05

    In the logic of Aristotle categories are adjuncts to reasoning whose function is to resolve ambiguities and thus to prepare equivocal signs, otherwise recalcitrant to being ruled by logic, for the application of logical laws. The example of ζωον illustrates the fact that we don't need categories to “make” generalizations so much as to “control” generalizations, to reign in abstractions and analogies which have been stretched too far.

    References —

    • Aristotle, “The Categories”, Harold P. Cooke (trans.), pp. 1–109 in Aristotle, Volume 1, Loeb Classical Library, William Heinemann, London, UK, 1938.

    • Karpeles, Eric (2008), Paintings in Proust, Thames and Hudson, London, UK.

    Resources —

    Precursors Of Category Theory
    oeis.org/wiki/Precursors_Of_Ca

    Propositions As Types Analogy
    oeis.org/wiki/Propositions_As_

    Survey of Precursors Of Category Theory
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/05

    #Aristotle #Peirce #Kant #Carnap #Hilbert #Ackermann #SaundersMacLane
    #Abstraction #Analogy #CategoryTheory #Diagrams #FoundationsOfMathematics
    #FunctionalLogic #RelationTheory #ContinuousPredicate #HypostaticAbstraction
    #CategoryTheory #PeircesCategories #PropositionsAsTypes #TypeTheory #Universals

  30. Precursors Of Category Theory • 2.2
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/05

    Aristotle —

    ❝Things are equivocally named, when they have the name only in common, the definition (or statement of essence) corresponding with the name being different. For instance, while a man and a portrait can properly both be called animals (ζωον), these are equivocally named. For they have the name only in common, the definitions (or statements of essence) corresponding with the name being different. For if you are asked to define what the being an animal means in the case of the man and the portrait, you give in either case a definition appropriate to that case alone.

    ❝Things are univocally named, when not only they bear the same name but the name means the same in each case — has the same definition corresponding. Thus a man and an ox are called animals. The name is the same in both cases; so also the statement of essence. For if you are asked what is meant by their both of them being called animals, you give that particular name in both cases the same definition.❞ (Aristotle, Categories, 1.1a1–12).

    Translator's Note. ❝Ζωον in Greek had two meanings, that is to say, living creature, and, secondly, a figure or image in painting, embroidery, sculpture. We have no ambiguous noun. However, we use the word ‘living’ of portraits to mean ‘true to life’.❞

    #Aristotle #Peirce #Kant #Carnap #Hilbert #Ackermann #SaundersMacLane
    #Abstraction #Analogy #CategoryTheory #Diagrams #FoundationsOfMathematics
    #FunctionalLogic #RelationTheory #ContinuousPredicate #HypostaticAbstraction
    #CategoryTheory #PeircesCategories #PropositionsAsTypes #TypeTheory #Universals

  31. Precursors Of Category Theory • 2.1
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/05

    ❝Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists …❞

    — Marcel Proust

    When it comes to looking for the continuities of the category concept across different systems and systematizers, we don't expect to find their kinship in the names or numbers of categories, since those are legion and their divisions deployed on widely different planes of abstraction, but in their common function.

    #Aristotle #Peirce #Kant #Carnap #Hilbert #Ackermann #SaundersMacLane
    #Abstraction #Analogy #CategoryTheory #Diagrams #FoundationsOfMathematics
    #FunctionalLogic #RelationTheory #ContinuousPredicate #HypostaticAbstraction
    #CategoryTheory #PeircesCategories #PropositionsAsTypes #TypeTheory #Universals

  32. Precursors Of Category Theory • 1
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/05

    A few years ago I began a sketch on the “Precursors of Category Theory”, tracing the continuities of the category concept from Aristotle, to Kant and Peirce, through Hilbert and Ackermann, to contemporary mathematical practice. My notes on the project are still very rough and incomplete but I find myself returning to them from time to time.

    Preamble —

    ❝Now the discovery of ideas as general as these is chiefly the willingness to make a brash or speculative abstraction, in this case supported by the pleasure of purloining words from the philosophers: “Category” from Aristotle and Kant, “Functor” from Carnap (“Logische Syntax der Sprache”), and “natural transformation” from then current informal parlance.❞

    — Saunders Mac Lane • “Categories for the Working Mathematician”

    Resources —

    Precursors Of Category Theory
    oeis.org/wiki/Precursors_Of_Ca

    Propositions As Types Analogy
    oeis.org/wiki/Propositions_As_

    Survey of Precursors Of Category Theory
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/05

    #Aristotle #Peirce #Kant #Carnap #Hilbert #Ackermann #SaundersMacLane
    #Abstraction #Analogy #CategoryTheory #Diagrams #FoundationsOfMathematics
    #FunctionalLogic #RelationTheory #ContinuousPredicate #HypostaticAbstraction
    #CategoryTheory #PeircesCategories #PropositionsAsTypes #TypeTheory #Universals

  33. Survey of Precursors Of Category Theory • 5
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/05

    A few years ago I began a sketch on the “Precursors of Category Theory”, tracing the continuities of the category concept from Aristotle, to Kant and Peirce, through Hilbert and Ackermann, to contemporary mathematical practice. A Survey of resources on the topic is given below, still very rough and incomplete, but perhaps a few will find it of use.

    Background —

    Precursors Of Category Theory
    oeis.org/wiki/Precursors_Of_Ca

    Propositions As Types Analogy
    oeis.org/wiki/Propositions_As_

    Blog Series —

    Notes On Categories
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2013/02

    Precursors Of Category Theory
    1. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2013/12
    2. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2013/12
    3. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2014/01

    Precursors Of Category Theory • Discussion
    1. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/09
    2. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/09
    3. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/09

    Categories à la Peirce —

    C.S. Peirce • A Guess at the Riddle
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/03

    Peirce's Categories
    1. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2015/10
    2. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2015/10
    3. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2015/11
    •••
    19. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/05
    20. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/05
    21. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/06

    C.S. Peirce and Category Theory
    1. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/06
    2. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/06
    3. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/06
    4. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/06
    5. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/06
    6. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/06
    7. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/07
    8. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/07

    #Aristotle #Peirce #Kant #Carnap #Hilbert #Ackermann #SaundersMacLane
    #Abstraction #Analogy #CategoryTheory #Diagrams #FoundationsOfMathematics
    #FunctionalLogic #RelationTheory #ContinuousPredicate #HypostaticAbstraction
    #CategoryTheory #PeircesCategories #PropositionsAsTypes #TypeTheory #Universals

  34. Survey of Precursors Of Category Theory • 4
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/08

    A few years ago I began a sketch on the “Precursors of Category Theory”, tracing the continuities of the category concept from Aristotle, to Kant and Peirce, through Hilbert and Ackermann, to contemporary mathematical practice. A Survey of resources on the topic is given below, still very rough and incomplete, but perhaps a few will find it of use.

    Background —

    Precursors Of Category Theory
    oeis.org/wiki/Precursors_Of_Ca

    Propositions As Types Analogy
    oeis.org/wiki/Propositions_As_

    Blog Series —

    Notes On Categories
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2013/02

    Precursors Of Category Theory
    1. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2013/12
    2. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2013/12
    3. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2014/01

    Precursors Of Category Theory • Discussion
    1. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/09
    2. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/09
    3. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/09

    Categories à la Peirce —

    C.S. Peirce • A Guess at the Riddle
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/03

    Peirce's Categories
    1. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2015/10
    2. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2015/10
    3. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2015/11
    •••
    19. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/05
    20. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/05
    21. inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/06

    #Aristotle #Peirce #Kant #Carnap #Hilbert #Ackermann #SaundersMacLane
    #Abstraction #Analogy #CategoryTheory #Diagrams #FoundationsOfMathematics
    #FunctionalLogic #RelationTheory #ContinuousPredicate #HypostaticAbstraction
    #CategoryTheory #PeircesCategories #PropositionsAsTypes #TypeTheory #Universals

  35. Functional Logic • Inquiry and Analogy • 5

    Inquiry and AnalogyAristotle’s “Paradigm” • Reasoning by Analogy

    Aristotle examines the subject of analogical inference or “reasoning by example” under the heading of the Greek word παραδειγμα, from which comes the English word paradigm.  In its original sense the word suggests a kind of “side‑show”, or a parallel comparison of cases.

    We have an Example (παραδειγμα, or analogy) when the major extreme is shown to be applicable to the middle term by means of a term similar to the third.  It must be known both that the middle applies to the third term and that the first applies to the term similar to the third.

    E.g., let A be “bad”, B “to make war on neighbors”, C “Athens against Thebes”, and D “Thebes against Phocis”.  Then if we require to prove that war against Thebes is bad, we must be satisfied that war against neighbors is bad.  Evidence of this can be drawn from similar examples, e.g., that war by Thebes against Phocis is bad.  Then since war against neighbors is bad, and war against Thebes is against neighbors, it is evident that war against Thebes is bad.

    Aristotle, “Prior Analytics” 2.24, Hugh Tredennick (trans.)

    Figure 6 shows the logical relationships involved in Aristotle’s example of analogy.


    Resources

    cc: FB | Peirce MattersLaws of FormMathstodonOntologAcademia.edu
    cc: Conceptual GraphsCyberneticsStructural ModelingSystems Science

    #Abduction #Analogy #Argument #Aristotle #CSPeirce #Constraint #Deduction #Determination #DiagrammaticReasoning #Diagrams #DifferentialLogic #FunctionalLogic #Hypothesis #Indication #Induction #Inference #Information #Inquiry #Logic #LogicOfScience #Mathematics #PragmaticSemioticInformation #ProbableReasoning #PropositionalCalculus #Propositions #Reasoning #Retroduction #Semiotics #SignRelations #Syllogism #TriadicRelations #Visualization