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====Note 11====
====Note 11====
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<pre>
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Continuing to draw on the manageable materials of group representations, we examine a few of the finer points involved in regarding the pragmatic maxim as a representation principle.
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Returning to the example of an abstract group that we had before:
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| Charles Sanders Peirce,
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| "Maxim of Pragmaticism", CP 5.438.
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Continuing to draw on the reduced example of group representations,
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I would like to draw out a few of the finer points and problems of
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regarding the maxim of pragmatism as a principle of representation.
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Let us revisit the example of an abstract group that we had befour:
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|+ <math>\text{Klein Four-Group}~ V_4</math>
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|- style="height:50px"
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| width="12%" style="border-bottom:1px solid black; border-right:1px solid black" | <math>\cdot</math>
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| width="22%" style="border-bottom:1px solid black" |
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<math>\operatorname{e}</math>
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| width="22%" style="border-bottom:1px solid black" |
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<math>\operatorname{f}</math>
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| width="22%" style="border-bottom:1px solid black" |
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<math>\operatorname{g}</math>
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| width="22%" style="border-bottom:1px solid black" |
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<math>\operatorname{h}</math>
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|- style="height:50px"
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| style="border-right:1px solid black" | <math>\operatorname{e}</math>
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| <math>\operatorname{e}</math>
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| <math>\operatorname{f}</math>
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| <math>\operatorname{g}</math>
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| <math>\operatorname{h}</math>
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|- style="height:50px"
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| style="border-right:1px solid black" | <math>\operatorname{f}</math>
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| <math>\operatorname{f}</math>
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| <math>\operatorname{e}</math>
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| <math>\operatorname{h}</math>
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| <math>\operatorname{g}</math>
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|- style="height:50px"
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| style="border-right:1px solid black" | <math>\operatorname{g}</math>
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| <math>\operatorname{g}</math>
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| <math>\operatorname{h}</math>
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| <math>\operatorname{e}</math>
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| <math>\operatorname{f}</math>
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|- style="height:50px"
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| style="border-right:1px solid black" | <math>\operatorname{h}</math>
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| <math>\operatorname{h}</math>
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| <math>\operatorname{g}</math>
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| <math>\operatorname{f}</math>
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| <math>\operatorname{e}</math>
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|}
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Table 1. Klein Four-Group V_4
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o---------o---------o---------o---------o---------o
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o=========o=========o=========o=========o=========o
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| e % e | f | g | h |
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o---------o---------o---------o---------o---------o
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| f % f | e | h | g |
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o---------o---------o---------o---------o---------o
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| g % g | h | e | f |
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o---------o---------o---------o---------o---------o
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| h % h | g | f | e |
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o---------o---------o---------o---------o---------o
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<pre>
I presented the regular post-representation
I presented the regular post-representation
of the four-group V_4 in the following form:
of the four-group V_4 in the following form: