Jon, Lovely, just lovely! - Thank you very much!
Kirsti On 9.4.2012, at 17.00, Jon Awbrey wrote: > Peircers, > > Not too coincidentally with the mention of Peirce's existential graphs, > a tangent of discussion on another blog brought to mind an old favorite > passage from Peirce, where he is using his entitative graphs to exposit > the logic of relatives. Here is the observation that I was led to make: > > | Paradisaical Logic > | > | Negative operations (NOs), if not more important than > | positive operations (POs), are at least more powerful > | or generative, because the right NOs can generate all > | POs, but the reverse is not so. > | > | Which brings us to Peirce’s amphecks, NAND and NNOR, > | either of which is a sole sufficient operator for all > | boolean operations. > | > | In one of his developments of a graphical syntax for logic, > | that described in passing an application of the Neither-Nor > | operator, Peirce referred to the stage of reasoning before > | the encounter with falsehood as “paradisaical logic, because > | it represents the state of Man’s cognition before the Fall.” > | > | Here’s a bit of what he wrote there — > | > | C.S. Peirce • Relatives of Second Intention > | > http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/04/07/c-s-peirce-%E2%80%A2-relatives-of-second-intention/ > > Regards, > > Jon > > -- > > academia: http://independent.academia.edu/JonAwbrey > inquiry list: http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/ > mwb: http://www.mywikibiz.com/Directory:Jon_Awbrey > oeiswiki: http://www.oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey > word press blog 1: http://jonawbrey.wordpress.com/ > word press blog 2: http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the PEIRCE-L > listserv. To remove yourself from this list, send a message to > lists...@listserv.iupui.edu with the line "SIGNOFF PEIRCE-L" in the body of > the message. To post a message to the list, send it to > PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the PEIRCE-L listserv. To remove yourself from this list, send a message to lists...@listserv.iupui.edu with the line "SIGNOFF PEIRCE-L" in the body of the message. To post a message to the list, send it to PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
