Re: Objects, Models, Theories

Helmut & All,

I mulled the matter over for a fair spell of days and nights and decided that it wouldn't be such a 
good idea to jump into the middle of the muddle about re-entry and imaginary truth values right off 
the bat, that it would be better in the long run to get a solid grip on what is going on with the 
propositional level of Peirce's graphs and how Spencer-Brown's elaborations can in fact be seen to 
manifest the same spirit of reasoning, if read the right way.

As it happens, that is very close to what I had in mind developing on the “Alpha Now, Omega Later” 
thread that I started earlier, so I think it might be better to treat these issues in that context.

Regards,

Jon

 > Re: Helmut Raulien
 > At: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/11119
 >
 > Helmut,
 >
 > Spencer-Brown's ''Laws of Form'' tends to be loved XOR hated by most folks,
 > with few coming down in between.  I ran across GSB early in my undergrad years,
 > shortly after encountering CSP, so I could tell that it roughly revived Peirce's
 > logical graphs, emphasizing the entitative interpretation of the abstract formal
 > calculus that underlies the propositional “alpha” level.  It took me a solid decade
 > to gain a modicum of clarity about all that “imaginary truth value” and “re-entry”
 > folderol and I'll try to say some things about that later on, but it may be the
 > weekend or next week before I can get back to it.
 >
 > Regards,
 >
 > Jon

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