Survey of Pragmatic Semiotic Information • 7
• http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/07/23/survey-of-pragmatic-semiotic-information-7/

This is a Survey of blog and wiki posts on a theory of information which grows out of pragmatic semiotic ideas. All my projects are exploratory in character but this line of inquiry is more open‑ended than most. The question is —

• What is information and how does it impact the spectrum of activities answering to the name of inquiry?

Setting out on what would become his lifelong quest to explore and explain the “Logic of Science”, C.S. Peirce pierced the veil of historical confusions obscuring the issue and fixed on what he called the “laws of information” as the key to solving the puzzle.

The first hints of the Information Revolution in our understanding of scientific inquiry may be traced to Peirce's lectures of 1865–1866 at Harvard University and the Lowell Institute. There Peirce took up “the puzzle of the validity of scientific inference” and claimed it was “entirely removed by a consideration of the laws of information”.

Fast forward to the present and I see the Big Question as follows. Having gone through the exercise of comparing and contrasting Peirce's theory of information, however much it yet remains in a rough‑hewn state, with Shannon's paradigm so pervasively informing the ongoing revolution in our understanding and use of information, I have reason to believe Peirce's idea is root and branch more general and has the potential, with due development, to resolve many mysteries still bedeviling our grasp of inference, information, and inquiry.

#Peirce #Logic #LogicOfScience #ScientificMethod #InformationTheory
#Pragmatism #Semiotics #SignRelations #PragmaticSemioticInformation

Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Ψ
• http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/07/22/pragmatic-semiotic-information-%cf%88-2/

I remember it was back in ’76 when I began to notice a subtle shift of focus in the computer science journals I was reading, from discussing X to discussing “Information About X”, or \(X \to \mathrm{Info}(X)\) as I came to notate the transformation. I suppose that small arc of revolution had been building for years but it struck me as crossing a threshold to a more explicit, self‑conscious stage about that time.

#Peirce #Logic #LogicOfScience #ScientificMethod #InformationTheory
#Pragmatism #Semiotics #SignRelations #PragmaticSemioticInformation

@maxsnew

#Logic is of course classically recognized as a #NormativeScience and C.S. #Peirce wrote a lot about the #LogicOfScience, his analysis of #ScientificMethod into three types of inference — #Abduction, #Deduction, and #Induction.

#Definition and #Determination • #SurveyPage
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/09/06/survey-of-definition-and-determination-1/

Thus I was led me to collect a sample of texts where Peirce and a few other writers discuss the issues of definition and determination. There are copies of those selections at the following sites.

(See the blog page linked here.)

#AI #AdaptiveSystems #IntelligentSystems #InquiryDrivenSystems
#Peirce #Semiotics #Semeiotics #SignRelations #LogicOfScience

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#Definition and #Determination • #SurveyPage
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/09/06/survey-of-definition-and-determination-1/

Two of the first questions calling for fresh examination were the closely related concepts of definition and determination, not only as #Peirce used them in his #Logic and #Semiotics but as researchers in #ComputerScience, #Cybernetics, #Physics, and #SystemsScience found themselves forced to revisit in later years.

#AI #AdaptiveSystems #IntelligentSystems #InquiryDrivenSystems
#Semeiotics #SignRelations #LogicOfScience

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#Definition and #Determination • #SurveyPage
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/09/06/survey-of-definition-and-determination-1/

In the early 1990s, “in the middle of life’s journey” as the saying goes, I returned to grad school in a #SystemsEngineering program with the idea of taking a more systems-theoretic approach to my development of Peircean themes, from #Signs and #ScientificInquiry to #Logic and #InformationTheory.

#AI #AdaptiveSystems #IntelligentSystems #InquiryDrivenSystems
#Peirce #Semiotics #Semeiotics #SignRelations #LogicOfScience

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