Cf: Theme One Program • Discussion 10
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/04/17/theme-one-program-discussion-10/
Re: Mathstodon • Seamus Bradley
::: https://mathstodon.xyz/@Scmbradley/110198310724722597
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I thought of a programming language where every function
can only return one type: the return type. The return
type is just a wrapper around a struct that contains the
actual return value, but also a reference to the called
function and arguments, and possibly an error code.
</QUOTE>
My flashback —
Way back in the last millennium I started work on a programming style
I called an “idea processor”, where an “idea” is a pointer to a “form”
and a form is a minimal type of record containing 1 character, 1 number,
and 4 more ideas.
I implemented a functional style where all the main functions are transformations
of one or more ideas to a return idea. The principal data type is an “idea-form flag”
which serves a role analogous to a “cons cell” in Lisp.
Here's one entry point —
Theme One Program • Exposition 1
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2022/06/15/theme-one-program-exposition-1-2/
Regards,
Jon ( https://mathstodon.xyz/@Inquiry )
Cf: Survey of Definition and Determination • 2
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/04/06/survey-of-definition-and-determin…
All,
In the early 1990s, “in the middle of life's journey” as the saying goes,
I returned to grad school in a systems engineering program with the idea
of taking a more systems-theoretic approach to my development of Peircean
themes, from signs and scientific inquiry to logic and information theory.
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 areas as diverse as
computer science, cybernetics, physics, and systems sciences were finding
themselves forced to reconsider the concepts in later years. That 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.
Collection Of Source Materials
• https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey/EXCERPTS
Excerpts on Definition
• https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey/EXCERPTS#Definition
Excerpts on Determination
• https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey/EXCERPTS#Determination
What follows is a Survey of blog and wiki posts on Definition and Determination,
with a focus on the part they play in Peirce's interlinked theories of signs,
information, and inquiry. In classical logical traditions the concepts of
definition and determination are closely related and their bond acquires
all the more force when we view the overarching concept of constraint
from an information-theoretic point of view, as Peirce did beginning
in the 1860s.
Regards,
Jon
https://mathstodon.xyz/@Inquiry
All,
I've been thinking about ways to connect the species of logical graphs
I've been developing out of Peirce's entitative and existential graphs
with the styles of logical graphs envisioned in the RDF Surfaces group.
One thing arising out of those reflections was I began to tease apart
two layers of structure, the one involved in conceiving and computing
logical formulas and the other employed in displaying the end results.
At any rate, I'll be exploring that theme further as we go ...
For now, here's one overview of some work already done —
Cf: Survey of Animated Logical Graphs
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/03/28/survey-of-animated-logical-graphs…
This is a Survey of blog and wiki posts on Logical Graphs, encompassing
several families of graph-theoretic structures originally developed by
Charles S. Peirce as graphical formal languages or visual styles of
syntax amenable to interpretation for logical applications.
Please follow the link above for the full set of resources.
For now I'll just give links to a couple of beginning pieces.
Logical Graphs • Introduction
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2008/07/29/logical-graphs-introduction/
Logical Graphs • Formal Development
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2008/09/19/logical-graphs-formal-development/
Regards,
Jon
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/https://mathstodon.xyz/@Inquiry
Cf: In the Way of Inquiry • Recircus
http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/01/06/in-the-way-of-inquiry-recircus-2/
“I must lie down where all the ladders start
In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.”
— W.B. Yeats
https://web.archive.org/web/20200402124816/https://www.web-books.com/Classi…
All,
I was never on Twitter but many people whose writings I follow
here and there on the web often reshared their posts from there.
So when a horde of them began migrating to Fediverse locales like
Mastodon and especially Mathstodon (where they have LaTeX) I took
a chance on tagging along. I don't know whether micro-blooging is
really my medium yet but the diversity of readings from others has
been pretty interesting so far. It's also serving as a beneficial
exercise trying to quantize my macro-bloggings down to micro scale,
so I'll keep working at that for the time being and see how it goes.
For now I have in mind circling back to a point in my project on
Inquiry Driven Systems, namely, the chapter addressing various
Obstacles to the Project.
Inquiry Driven Systems • Overview
https://oeis.org/wiki/Inquiry_Driven_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Overview
Inquiry Driven Systems • Obstacles
https://oeis.org/wiki/Inquiry_Driven_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Part_5#Obstacles
Regards,
Jon (https://mathstodon.xyz/@Inquiry)