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• Directory:Jon Awbrey/EPITEXT
  ===Philosophy of Notation : Formal Terms and Flexible Types=== But no science can rest entirely on measurement, and many scientific investigations are quite out of reach of that device. To the scientist lon
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• Charles Sanders Peirce (Bibliography)
  :* ''Volume 6 : Scientific Metaphysics'', 1935. * Peirce, C.S. (1870), "Description of a Notation for the Logic of Relatives, Resulting from an Amplification of the Concepti
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• Turing Award
  |''In joint scientific efforts extending over twenty years, initially in collaboration with J. C. |''For his pioneering effort in programming languages and mathematical notation resulting in what the computing field now knows as APL, for his contributio
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• User:Jon Awbrey/BIB
  ....S. (1885), "On the Algebra of Logic: A Contribution to the Philosophy of Notation", ''American Journal of Mathematics'' 7 (1885), 180–202. Reprinted as CP ....S. (1885), "On the Algebra of Logic: A Contribution to the Philosophy of Notation", ''American Journal of Mathematics'' 7 (1885), 180–202. Reprinted as CP
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• Directory:Jon Awbrey/BIB
  ....S. (1885), "On the Algebra of Logic: A Contribution to the Philosophy of Notation", ''American Journal of Mathematics'' 7 (1885), 180–202. Reprinted as CP ....S. (1885), "On the Algebra of Logic: A Contribution to the Philosophy of Notation", ''American Journal of Mathematics'' 7 (1885), 180–202. Reprinted as CP
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• Sign relation
  By way of unpacking the set-theoretic notation, here is what the first definition says in ordinary language. A few items of notation are useful in discussing equivalence relations in general and semiotic equi
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• Latitude
  ...13°19.717′ N. Degrees expressed as a decimal number (decimal degree notation) is more often used: 13.32861° N. Sometimes, the north/south suffix is rep ...d primarily in a small area of northwestern Europe. Particularly, with the Scientific Revolution in Europe in the 1500s, quality of life increased and wealth beg
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• User:Jon Awbrey/PEIRCE
  ...of his defining ''[[reality]]'' as "the object of the final opinion of the scientific community", but this label is based on a peculiar sense of the word ''ideal ...e went on to obtain the BA and MA from Harvard, and in 1863 the [[Lawrence Scientific School]] awarded him its first M.Sc. in [[chemistry]]. This last degree was
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• Introduction to Inquiry Driven Systems
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• Charles Sanders Peirce
  ...e went on to obtain the BA and MA from Harvard, and in 1863 the [[Lawrence Scientific School]] awarded him its first M.Sc. in [[chemistry]]. This last degree was Between 1859 and 1891, Charles was intermittently employed in various scientific capacities by the [[United States Coast Survey]], where he enjoyed the prot
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• Directory:Jon Awbrey/Papers/Peirce's 1870 Logic Of Relatives
  ...erms to their numbers that Peirce signifies by means of the square bracket notation <math>[t]\!</math> has one of its principal uses in providing a basis for t <p>This signification for this sign is needed for connecting the notation of logic with that of the theory of probabilities. But if there is anythin
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• User:Jon Awbrey/PROSPECT
  scientific knowledge in relation to the world is supplied by (Losee, 1980). The notation for propositional calculus, and Section 3 will describe a proposal for
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• Directory:Jon Awbrey/Papers/Differential Logic and Dynamic Systems 3.0
  Table 2 exhibits the scheme of notation I use to formalize the domain of propositional calculus, corresponding to t ...ight:30px" | <math>\text{Table 2.} ~~ \text{Propositional Calculus : Basic Notation}\!</math>
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• Directory:Jon Awbrey/Papers/Introduction to Inquiry Driven Systems
  ...ry on in all the varieties of learning and reasoning from everyday life to scientific practice. I would like to design software that people could use to carry t ...bernetic system, moreover, it falls into line with classic descriptions of scientific inquiry. Finally, this suggests that good formulations of such "difference
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• Directory:Jon Awbrey/Papers/Cactus Language
  <p>Thus, what looks to us like a sphere of scientific knowledge more accurately should be represented as the inside of a highly i ...use of propositions as indicator functions it helps to acquire a flexible notation for referring to propositions in that light, for interpreting sentences in
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• Philosophy of mathematics
  ...y, while in Quine's case it comes indirectly, through the coherence of our scientific theory as a whole. Quine suggests that mathematics seems completely certai ...nt. Where Quine suggested that mathematics was indispensable for our best scientific theories, and therefore should be accepted as true, Field suggested that ma
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• Directory:Jon Awbrey/Differential Logic : Various Sketches
  ...ally called the "enlargement operator", hence the initial "E" of the usual notation. ...mathrm{d}u, \mathrm{d}v, \mathrm{d}w \}</math>. For convenience, define a notation "<math>\mathrm{E}X</math>" so that <math>\mathrm{E}X = X \times \mathrm{d}X
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• Directory:Jon Awbrey/Papers/Inquiry Driven Systems : Part 3
  ...g the word ''inquiry'' in a way that is roughly synonymous with the term ''scientific method''. Use of ''inquiry'' is more convenient, aside from being the shor If I reason that scientific method is wise because wise people use it, then I am making the hypothesis
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• Directory:Jon Awbrey/Papers/Information = Comprehension × Extension
  ...how that inference is symbolization and that the puzzle of the validity of scientific inference lies merely in this superfluous comprehension and is therefore en ...And, therefore, there must be some slight preponderance of true over false scientific inferences. Now the falsity in conclusions is eliminated and neutralized b
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• Directory:Jon Awbrey/Papers/Differential Logic and Dynamic Systems
  Table 1 outlines the notation that I use for propositional calculus. Explained as briefly as possible, I ...-off displays, but in contexts where parentheses are needed for functional notation I will use a distinctive font for logical operators.
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