Re: [PEIRCE-L] Metalanguage (was Delta Existential Graphs

2024-02-24 Thread John F Sowa
Jon, I appreciate your comments, even though they disagree with what I believe Peirce intended. But I can see that I need to respond to the questions you raise in the article I'm writing. JAS> In the RLT example, what is written outside the "lightly drawn oval" does not govern what is

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Metalanguage (was Delta Existential Graphs

2024-02-24 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
John, List: JFS: The word 'paper' is the same word that he used in R514 for a paper with postulates in the margin that govern the graphs inside a red line. Actually, Peirce *does not* use the word "paper" in the "red pencil" passage of R 514, he uses the word "sheet." However, this is just a

[PEIRCE-L] Metalanguage (was Delta Existential Graphs

2024-02-24 Thread John F Sowa
Jon, List, Please note the phrase "a special understanding between utterer and interpreter" in the excerpt below. And note that different "papers" of the phemic sheet may have different special understandings. Although Peirce did not coin the term 'metalanguage', that is the word that has

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Delta Existential Graphs (was The Proper Way in Logic)

2024-02-24 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
John, List: I had an epiphany of sorts while I was initially drafting this reply. For now, I will just respond to a few specific points, but in a later post, I intend to propose a way forward for Delta EGs that could be truly collaborative instead of competitive--both/and, not either/or. JFS:

[PEIRCE-L] Slides for a quick overview (was Delta Existential Graphs

2024-02-24 Thread John F Sowa
Jon, Jerry, List, My previous notes cited many references, and I doubt that people will read them all (any?). But I presented some slides at a conference on Knowledge Graphs in May of 2020 (via Zoom because of covid), which I extended in July for a keynote talk at the European Semantic Web