Logical Graphs • First Impressions 9
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Quick Tour of the Neighborhood —
This much preparation allows us to take up the founding axioms or
initial equations which determine the entire system of logical graphs.
Primary Arithmetic as Semiotic System —
Though it may not seem too exciting, logically speaking, there are many
reasons to make ourselves at home with the system of forms represented
indifferently, topologically speaking, by rooted trees, balanced strings
of parentheses, and finite sets of non‑intersecting simple closed curves
in the plane.
• For one thing it gives us a non‑trivial example of a sign domain
on which to cut our semiotic teeth, non‑trivial in the sense that
it contains a countable infinity of signs.
• In addition it allows us to study a simple form of computation
recognizable as a species of semiosis or sign‑transforming process.
This space of forms, along with the pair of axioms which divide it
into two formal equivalence classes, is what Spencer Brown called
the “primary arithmetic”.
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Jon
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