CONTACTS 

SUBJECTS
OHS Open Hyperdocument System
Dynamic Knowledge Repository (DKR)
DKR Specification
Editor Development, 000505
Specifications, DKR, OHS
Editor Development, 000508

1208 -
1208 -    ..
1209 - Summary/Objective
1210 -
121001 - Follow up ref SDS 27 0000, ref SDS 26 0000.
121002 -
121003 - Sent regular email with link to editor spec v0.6 received on 000508,
121004 - ref SDS 27 0782, and, also, the review ov v0.5 received on 000505,
121005 - since it includes v0.6, and is comprehensive. ref SDS 26 0001
121007 -  ..
121008 - This demonstrates how specs can be presented on the web, and shows
121009 - some of the corrections cited on 000505.
121010 -
121011 -    [On 000516 received letter from Paul Fernhout. ref SDS 30 0001
121012 -
121013 -    [On 000601 received changes from Eric for v0.07, without comment on
121014 -    issues cited in the record on 000505, which was submitted today.
121015 -    ref SDS 34 1462
121016 -
121018 -  ..
1211 -
1212 -
1213 - 0817 received letter from Dick Karpinski
1214 -
121401 - Dick said that the attachment to the record on 000505 did not appear
121402 - in his copy of the letter to the DKR project.
121403 -
121404 -
121406 -  ..
1215 -
1216 -
1217 - 0851 called Jack Park
1218 -
121801 - Jack said he got the attachment.
121802 -
121803 - He has not completed reading analysis of Eric's spec, reported on
121804 - 000505. ref SDS 26 0001
121806 -  ..
121807 - Jack generally agrees that the project needs an architecture, cited in
121808 - comments on 000505. ref SDS 26 4234
121810 -  ..
121811 - He advised that at the last meeting on 000511 Doug asked Eugene Kim to
121812 - manage the project.  Eugene will provide support to keep the project
121813 - on tract. ref SDS 29 0784
121814 - ..
121815 - I asked if Eugene is going to Washington with Doug next week to
121816 - help with sponsor outreach, reported in the record on 000419,
121817 - ref SDS 21 2535, and on 000420 citing need to support Doug's trip.
121818 - ref SDS 22 8667
121820 -  ..
121821 - Jack related understanding that Eugene is not going on the trip to
121822 - Washington to support sponsor outreach, and that he will be gone for
121823 - the next two weeks on matters unrelated to the project.
121825 -  ..
121826 - Jack said that Mary Keeler will give a presentation on knowledge to
121827 - the DKR project team tomorrow.  This will begin to address Doug's
121828 - request for a work up on knowledge, per action item on 000407.
121829 - ref SDS 20 2805
121831 -  ..
121832 - I asked Jack if Mary will review differences in the way knowledge is
121833 - explained in philosophy, and by cognitive science, which, for example
121834 - uses connectionist theory to develop the problem of meaning drift that
121835 - arise from Landauer's LSA ideas on induction, reviewed on 960518,
121836 - ref SDS 8 3734, as the process of assigning meaning?
121838 -  ..
121839 - Jack suggested I attend the meeting on Thursday and ask that question?
121840 -
121841 -     [On 000518 attended the meeting. ref SDS 32 0001
121842 - ..
121843 - I asked if he knows of any papers Mary has written.
121845 -  ..
121846 - He will send a reference he has.
121848 -  ..
121849 - Sent Jack a letter confirming these understandings, which is included
121850 - as an attachment to his response, ref DRT 1 0002, reviewed below.
121851 -
121853 -  ..
1219 -
1220 -
1221 - 1130 received email from Dick Karpinski
1222 -
122201 - Dick said he was able to open the spec review record on 000505.  He
122202 - feels it is very professionally presented, and he is pleased I have
122203 - continued to contribute to the project.
122205 -  ..
122206 - He does not offer any suggestions or corrections.
122207 -
122208 -
122209 -
122210 -
122211 -
122212 -
1223 -

SUBJECTS
Philosophical Context of Peirce's Exestential Graphs Professional Pa

2303 -
230401 -  ..
2305 -
2306 - 1345 received letter from Jack
2307 -
230701 - Peirce's Philosophy Supports POIMS, Communication Metrics
230702 - Mary Keeler's Paper on Knowledge Supports Need to Capture Experience
230703 -
230704 - Received ref DRT 1 0001 from Jack responding to recent efforts by
230705 - OHS/DKR team to formulate a working definition of "knowledge" for
230706 - purposes of constructing technology that augments intelligence,
230707 - illustrated by discussion on 000503. ref SDS 24 5033  Jack submits the
230708 - following work product which Mary Keeler has prepared, and indicate
230709 - the direction of remarks she will deliver tomorrow at SRI, per above.
230710 - ref SDS 0 0783
230711 -
230712 -         http://accord.iupui.edu/accord/context.txt
230713 -
230714 -            [see also below for other original sources. ref SDS 0 G235
230716 -  ..
230717 - Downloaded the file.  It was a single large body of mostly horizontal
230718 - text without paragraphs.  Used MS cut and paste tools to construct a
230719 - standard format with paragraphs, headings, and added anchors for
230720 - granular addressability. ref OF 4 0001
230721 -
230722 -     [On 000518 Mary presented her research to DKR project team.
230723 -     ref SDS 32 8439
230725 -      ..
230726 -     [On 000530 sent letter thanking Mary for her presentation at SRI,
230727 -     and for her paper on Charles Peirce. ref SDS 33 9797
230729 -      ..
230730 -     [On 000624 sent letter to Mary asking about alignment of semiotics
230731 -     with SDS, POIMS, Com Metrics. ref SDS 36 1534
230733 -      ..
230734 -     [On 000713 Cliff Joslyn at LANL uses semiotics to support KM
230735 -     efforts, ref SDS 37 4078, submitted letter to Professor Joseph
230736 -     Ransdell about his paper on Peirce and semiotics. ref SDS 37 0616
230738 -  ..
230739 - Mary Keeler is with University of Washington, Seattle.
230740 -
230741 -                       mkeeler@u.washington.edu
230743 -  ..
230744 - Title of paper...
230745 -
230746 -         Philosophical Context of Peirce's Existential Graphs
230747 -
230748 - ...reviews ideas of Charles S. Peirce. ref OF 4 0001
230749 -
230750 -              http://port.cs.nmsu.edu:8080/PDF/egpaper.pdf
230752 -               ..
230753 -              f: 02 14 01 60 00 05 1501.pdf
230755 -  ..
230756 - Key words should add...
230757 -
230758 -     knowledge, meaning, experience, communication, collaboration.
230759 -     ontology, epistemology, intelligence, accuracy. ref OF 4 1372
230760 -
230761 -
230762 -
230763 -
230764 -
2308 -

SUBJECTS
Knowledge Space Continuous Thought Making Connections Semiotic Theor

5303 -
530401 -       ..
530402 -      Semiotic Theory of Knowledge Logic Continuous Thought
530403 -      Context of Communication Impacts Meaning of Experience
530404 -      Knowledge Generated from Human Experience Theory Semiotics
530405 -      Knowledge Space Reflects Continuous Character of Human Thought
530406 -
530408 -  ..
530409 - Professor Keeler's abstract says in part...
530410 -
530411 -      Charles S Peirce developed a general theory of representation
530412 -      that he called semiotic (Keeler says Peirce never used a plural
530413 -      form of "semiotics, ref OF 4 4M3I) --which could account for the
530414 -      continuous nature of thought and communication operating
530415 -      mediationally in human experience to generate knowledge.
530416 -      ref OF 4 7098
530418 -  ..
530419 - Peirce further maintains that accuracy requires continual refinement
530420 - through experience. ref SDS 0 7380
530422 -  ..
530423 - Peirce's philosophical approach recognizes scientific practice of
530424 - relying on experience to construct knowledge, seems somewhat different
530425 - from expression reviewed on 991027 that "knowledge" is true justified
530426 - belief, ref SDS 12 SL9G, and provides a formulaic construction,
530427 - ref SDS 12 KO4O, which might have appealed to Peirce.
530429 -             ..
530430 -            [On 000516 Jack Park submitted definition of knowledge
530431 -            grounded in philosophical practice as true justified
530432 -            belief. ref SDS 30 4723
530434 -             ..
530435 -            [On 000516 philosophy does not seem to deal with knowledge
530436 -            in relation to cause and effect. ref SDS 30 1P6J
530438 -             ..
530439 -            [On 050115 research on philosophy define knowledge
530440 -            justified true belief, ref SDS 49 SF5K; very interesting
530441 -            paper, but not sure this provides good grounding for a
530442 -            practice and tools for Knowledge Management, ref SDS 49
530443 -            845K; except Peirce explains knowledge requires continual
530444 -            refinement to obtain accuracy. ref SDS 0 7380
530446 -             ..
530447 -            [On 050115 book review explains Peirce views on standard
530448 -            philosophy definition of knowledge true justified belief.
530449 -            ref SDS 49 9X94
530451 -             ..
530452 -            [On 020608 knowledge define case study hard for people to
530453 -            grasp, ref SDS 47 CC6J; philosophy grounding for "Knowledge
530454 -            Management" reviewed 050115, ref SDS 49 SF5K, correlates
530455 -            with cognitive science reviewed 960518, ref SDS 8 GS58,
530456 -            management tasks considered 000307, ref SDS 17 767G, and
530457 -            physical science locality principle power of knowledge
530458 -            predicts and controls the future, reviewed on 040312,
530459 -            ref SDS 48 YH4G
530461 -  ..
530462 - More recently on 000505, review of specifications on OHS/DKR
530463 - requirements showed need for definition of "knowledge" to guide
530464 - understanding of knoweldge management. ref SDS 26 4864
530466 -  ..
530467 - The paper supplements...
530468 -
530469 -     1.  Doug Engelbart's explanation of knowledge management in his
530470 -         1972 paper, reviewed on 000327. ref SDS 19 3971
530471 -
530472 -     2.  Eugene Kim's letter on 000504 defining knowledge. ref SDS 25
530473 -         5003
530475 -          ..
530476 -     3.  Joe Williams' letter on 000510 explaining working application
530477 -         for knowledge. ref SDS 28 0004
530479 -             ..
530480 -            [On 000517 knowledge defined during meeting at Intel with
530481 -            Eric Armstrong and Morris Jones. ref SDS 31 0785
530483 -             ..
530484 -            [On 000518 Mary Keeler explained knowledge to DKR project
530485 -            team meeting at SRI. ref SDS 32 8439
530487 -             ..
530488 -            [On 000601 definition of Knowledge - information
530489 -            interpreted over time yields understanding of cause and
530490 -            effect -- proposed glossary for OHS/DKR team meeting at
530491 -            SRI. ref SDS 35 4Y7M
530493 -             ..
530494 -            [On 000624 sent letter to Mary asking about alignment of
530495 -            semiotics with SDS, POIMS, Com Metrics. ref SDS 36 1534
530497 -             ..
530498 -            [On 000713 Cliff Joslyn at LANL uses semiotics to support
530499 -            KM efforts, ref SDS 37 4078, submitted letter to Professor
530500 -            Joseph Ransdell about his paper on Peirce and semiotics.
530501 -            ref SDS 37 0616
530503 -             ..
530504 -            [On 050115 Jack Park comments that Mary's paper holds that
530505 -            Perice's semiotics presents learning as deeper than
530506 -            refining accuracy of knowledge through experience.
530507 -            ref SDS 49 MN8O
530508 -
530510 -       ..
530511 -      Philosophy Provides Framework for Knowledge All Disciplines
530512 -
530513 -
530514 - Professor Keeler says...
530515 -
530516 -      An early exponent of Peirce's work, Ernest Nagel explains that
530517 -      Peirce's ambition was "to construct a system of philosophy so
530518 -      comprehensive that for a long time to come achievements in all
530519 -      departments of research, in mathematics, in the natural sciences,
530520 -      in history, in sociology, would appear simply as details filling
530521 -      out its outline" (in Buchler: xiii). ref OF 4 7007
530522 -
530524 -       ..
530525 -      Logic Predictive Power of Knowledge Irreversibility of Time
530526 -      Sensory Perception Information Component of Knowledge
530527 -      Knowledge Reconcile Biological Sensory Perception with Causation
530528 -
530529 -
530530 - Professor Keeler says...
530531 -
530532 -      Nagel finds a unique pair of fundamental insights in Peirce's
530533 -      thought--"the recognition of the role played by symbols or
530534 -      language in human behavior and knowledge; and the recognition
530535 -      that human knowledge is an achievement of biological organisms
530536 -      functioning in social contexts." He concludes that Peirce
530537 -      conceived his semiotic as a theory that would assimilate the
530538 -      findings of both the formal (logical) and the empirical
530539 -      (biologico- social) approaches of inquiry: "He was the first, or
530540 -      among the first, to work out an empiricism which could combine
530541 -      recognition of the indispensable function in inquiry of strict
530542 -      logic and other regulative principles, with a recognition of the
530543 -      equally indispensable role of sensory observation" (ibid.: xvi).
530545 -  ..
530546 - POIMS explains "intelligence" as a biological process of connecting
530547 - continuous streams of information through sensory perception into
530548 - correlations for understanding cause and effect that yields the power
530549 - of knowledge for predicting the future. ref OF 1 0367
530551 -  ..
530552 - Professor Keeler says...
530553 -
530554 -      Peirce developed his theory of experience (semiotic) to explain
530555 -      how self-critical conduct (learning by experience) is possible,
530556 -      as a context for generalizing logic: "Logic, in its general
530557 -      sense, is, as I believe I have shown, only another name for
530558 -      semiotic" (MS 798; CP 2.227--1896). ref OF 4 6400
530560 -  ..
530561 - Logic seems closely associated with sequence, chronology that impart
530562 - causation, explained in POIMS. ref OF 1 0367
530563 -
530564 -            [On 040312 logic has a predictive quality perhaps grounded
530565 -            in the irreversibility of time applied by the locality
530566 -            principle that exchange of energy connecting cause and
530567 -            effect yields power of knowledge to predict the future.
530568 -            ref SDS 48 YH4G
530570 -  ..
530571 - Professor Keeler says...
530572 -
530573 -      Pragmatism, for Peirce, was the conduct of inquiry implied by his
530574 -      semiotic as a theory of experience, which he conceived as
530575 -      essentially mediated by our ability to create and rely on
530576 -      representations. ref OF 4 XT41
530577 -
530578 -            [...below Semiotic theory, ontology. ref SDS 0 0784
530580 -             ..
530581 -            [...below knowledge grounded in experience. ref SDS 0 5026
530582 -
530584 -       ..
530585 -      Experience Time Core Factors Knowledge Logic Cause Effect
530586 -
530587 -
530588 - Professor Keeler continues...
530589 -
530590 -      Peirce developed a theory of "semiotic" to explain problems that
530591 -      have since been recognized in modern physics.  Einstein's
530592 -      relativity theories, for example, do not account for
530593 -      communication between observers; time is conceived as reversible,
530594 -      giving observers no basis for comparing time intervals.  A theory
530595 -      of experience must explain the nature of contextual conditions in
530596 -      which communication is possible. ref OF 4 5456
530597 -
530599 -       ..
530600 -      Logic Predictive Power of Knowledge Irreversibility of Time
530601 -      Awareness of Present from Memory of Immediate Past
530602 -      Irreversibility Time Assymetry Experience Memory Past Not Future
530603 -
530604 -      We establish experience of the past (in memories and records of
530605 -      all kinds)--even our awareness of the present (to the extent that
530606 -      we turn our attention to it) becomes consciousness of the
530607 -      immediate past--but we cannot have such experience of the future.
530609 -  ..
530610 - This is duplicated below. ref SDS 0 5282
530612 -       ..
530613 -      Peirce's philosophical observation of this "asymmetry of
530614 -      experience," based on the irreversibility of time, indicated to
530615 -      him a fundamental "directionality in experience": we are bound in
530616 -      our conscious experience to "go from the past toward the future"
530617 -      (CSP-MS 304; 1903).  This metaphysical observation was the
530618 -      foundation for his semiotic as a theory of the continuity of
530619 -      experience (the growth of meaning, rather than its haphazard
530620 -      expansion).  Uncertainty about the future tends to draw us out of
530621 -      the certainty of the past.  Notions of probability and chance
530622 -      (tendencies) have no meaning (are of no use to us) without our
530623 -      awareness of time, which gives us the basis for comparing our
530624 -      experiences through thought and communication (and the urge to do
530625 -      so). ref OF 4 6000
530627 -             ..
530628 -            [On 010315 classical thinkers from 400 BC recognized time
530629 -            as critical to human knowledge. ref SDS 45 C24O
530631 -             ..
530632 -            [On 040312 logic has a predictive quality perhaps grounded
530633 -            in the irreversibility of time applied by the locality
530634 -            principle that exchange of energy connecting cause and
530635 -            effect yields power of knowledge to predict the future.
530636 -            ref SDS 48 YH4G
530638 -  ..
530639 - Einstein drew a correlation between knowledge and experience, reported
530640 - on 991124. ref SDS 14 3066  Einstein is discussed again below on
530641 - Peirce's explanation that accuracy occurs as a process of continual
530642 - refinement from experience investigating. ref SDS 0 7380
530643 -
530645 -          ..
530646 -         SDS Design Knowledge Information Stream Cause Effect Context
530647 -
530648 -
530649 - Peirce's explanation about the architecture of human thought aligns
530650 - with the SDS design.  POIMS describes SDS support for "knowledge" as a
530651 - continuous information stream of daily experience, segmented by
530652 - organic structure to identify context, and connected into chronologies
530653 - of cause and effect for various subjects, issues, topics, categories,
530654 - etc, as explained on 890523. ref SDS 1 SQ5L  POIMS points out that the
530655 - human mind organizes information based on a hierarchial (i.e.,
530656 - organic) structure of needs for sustaining life, and so SDS enables
530657 - segmenting, organizing and retrieving information for that purpose.
530658 - ref OF 1 0367
530659 -
530660 -
530661 -
5307 -

SUBJECTS
Knowledge Space Continuous Thought Making Connections Semiotic Theor

8303 -
830401 -  ..
830402 - Semiotic Theory Consciousness Intelligebility Comprehension Meaning
830403 - Alphabet Symbol System Words Limits Representation Logical Connections
830404 - Existential Graphs Symbol System Simile Picture Continuous Thought
830405 -
830406 -
830407 - Professor Keeler quotes Searle...
830408 -
830409 -      "While Peirce's 'semiotics' may appear intriguingly similar to
830410 -      Saussure's proposed discipline of 'semiology', it should not be
830411 -      overlooked that the first of many fundamental differences is that
830412 -      Peirce's [semiotic] is not based on the word . . . but on the
830413 -      proposition as that which unifies consciousness and creates
830414 -      intelligibility or comprehension.  In this sense, Peirce's
830415 -      [semiotic] is not a theory of language but a theory of the
830416 -      production of meaning." (560)
830418 -  ..
830419 - Landauer proposes that "meaning" arises from an inducation process of
830420 - consistent association in natural context that links one thing with
830421 - another, reviewed on 960321. ref SDS 6 2882
830423 -  ..
830424 - Ambiguity gets resolved based on context, according to Landauer
830425 - reviewed on 960321. ref SDS 6 5588
830427 -  ..
830428 - Inducation measures similarity of work patterns, reviewed on 960324.
830429 - ref SDS 7 7447
830431 -  ..
830432 - Dimension matching is the mental calculus for induction proposed by
830433 - Landauer to explain how the brain calculates meaning, reviewed on
830434 - 960324. ref SDS 7 3250
830436 -  ..
830437 - Context is managed by classification, reviewed on 960324. ref SDS 7
830438 - 8844
830440 -  ..
830441 - Landauer further describes "meaning space" analogous to Knowledge
830442 - Space, also, shown on 960324. ref SDS 7 7034
830444 -  ..
830445 - Professor Keeler comments....
830446 -
830447 -      Linguistic structure, in terms of words in sequence, does not
830448 -      immediately capture (efficiently express) the leading nature of
830449 -      propositions, which make intricate connections.  In fact, in
830450 -      terms of mediational efficiency, the linguistic mode of
830451 -      expression puts a cognitive burden on us to track the progress of
830452 -      related ideas, constantly trying to follow the rules of its
830453 -      structure and conventions of its use--as a symbol system.
830454 -      ref OF 4 0663
830456 -  ..
830457 - Peirce seems to recognize the alphabet is an explosive technology that
830458 - enabled advance of civilization, reported on 991108. ref SDS 13 5628
830459 - Supports explanation in POIMS that alphabet technology enables
830460 - symbolic representation of human thought. ref OF 1 ER3G
830461 -
830463 -  ..
830464 - Professor Keeler quotes Peirce ...
830465 -
830466 -      "The system of Existential Graphs may be characterized with great
830467 -      truth as presenting before our eyes a moving picture of thought.
830468 -      Provided this characterization be taken not as a flatly literal
830469 -      statement, but as a simile, it will, I venture to predict,
830470 -      surprise you to find what a strain of detailed comparison it will
830471 -      bear without snapping. ref OF 4 KU9K
830472 -
830473 -
830474 -
8305 -

SUBJECTS
Knowledge Multi-dimensional Axis Time Context Limited Representation

AB03 -
AB0401 -  ..
AB0402 - Knowledge Multi-dimensional Axis Limited Representation Picture
AB0403 - Multi-dimensional Axis of Knowledge Limited Representation Picture
AB0404 - Picture Knowledge Limited Representation Multi-Dimensional Time Context
AB0405 -
AB0406 -
AB0407 - Professor Keeler continues quoting Peirce ...
AB0408 -
AB0409 -      A picture is visual representation of the relations between the
AB0410 -      parts of its object; a vivid and highly informative
AB0411 -      representation, rewarding somewhat close examination.  Yet from
AB0412 -      the nature of things it must fall short of perfection, just as a
AB0413 -      representation of any kind must.  It cannot directly exhibit all
AB0414 -      the dimensions of its object, be this physical or psychic.  It
AB0415 -      shows this object only under a certain light, and from a single
AB0416 -      point of view."  (CSP-MS 291; 1905), ref OF 4 YU4H
AB0418 -  ..
AB0419 - Peirce's explanation seems to reflect that time and context convey
AB0420 - multi-dimensional relations of things which can only be represented
AB0421 - 2-dimensionally in pictures, as reviewed on 890523 discussing
AB0422 - requirements for context management using relational and hierarchial
AB0423 - subject indexing. ref SDS 1 G14K
AB0425 -  ..
AB0426 - Aligns with analysis on 940609 showing risks of relying on pictures
AB0427 - and conversation driven by innate biology to react to sight and sound,
AB0428 - ref SDS 4 4671, but convey false first impressions that cause
AB0429 - precipitous action, but are not effective for communication that
AB0430 - requires understanding and follow up, ref SDS 4 4933, which was
AB0431 - explained previously on 890809. ref SDS 2 CJ9J
AB0432 -
AB0433 -        [On 010312 pictures take 1000 words to explain, noted by Eric
AB0434 -        Armstrong. ref SDS 44 MU62
AB0435 -
AB0436 -
AB05 -

SUBJECTS
Knowledge Accuracy Truth Derived Continual Investigation Experience

B003 -
B00401 -  ..
B00402 - Communication Collaboration Evolve Toward Understanding Truth
B00403 - Continual Alignment Yields Understanding of Cause and Effect
B00404 - Truth Attained Through Continual Investigation and Collaboration
B00405 - Accuracy Unobtainable Requires Continual Refined Investigations
B00406 -
B00407 -
B00408 - Professor Keeler comments....
B00409 -
B00410 -      Peirce was convinced, through professional work as a scientist,
B00411 -      that absolute accuracy is unattainable, and his pragmatism
B00412 -      regards truth as a limit successively approached by increasingly
B00413 -      refined investigations, which depend on communication among
B00414 -      collaborating investigators. ref OF 4 7553
B00416 -  ..
B00417 - Aligns with Einstein's view that knowledge requires experience to test
B00418 - theory, reported on 991124, ref SDS 14 VO8L, noted previously, per
B00419 - above. ref SDS 0 DX84
B00421 -  ..
B00422 - Problem of "accuracy" and constant search for "truth" aligns with
B00423 - Landauer's point about meaning being in constant flux, summarily
B00424 - called "meaning drift," see POIMS, ref OF 1 8774, which makes "truth a
B00425 - moving target," also, explained in NWO..., ref OF 2 019R and
B00426 - ref OF 2 9449, reviewed on 960518. ref SDS 8 4488
B00428 -  ..
B00429 - POIMS explains feedback needed to continually refine
B00430 - understanding of knowledge. ref OF 1 16EF
B00432 -  ..
B00433 - NWO explains resistance to feedback. ref OF 2 2670
B00434 -
B00435 -     [On 000517 SDS aids memory to maintain alignment.
B00436 -     ref SDS 31 5083
B00437 -
B00438 -     [On 000518 Mary presented Peirce's philosophy to DKR
B00439 -     project team at SRI for explanation of knowledge and
B00440 -     challenge of accuracy. ref SDS 32 3528
B00442 -      ..
B00443 -     [On 000624 sent letter to Mary asking about alignment of
B00444 -     semiotics with SDS, POIMS, Com Metrics. ref SDS 36 1534
B00446 -      ..
B00447 -     [On 000713 Cliff Joslyn at LANL uses semiotics to support
B00448 -     KM efforts, ref SDS 37 4078, submitted letter to Professor
B00449 -     Joseph Ransdell about his paper on Peirce and semiotics.
B00450 -     ref SDS 37 0616
B00452 -      ..
B00453 -     [On 000729 Joe Ransdell reviews "truth" needed for reliability in
B00454 -     relation to Communication Metrics supported by SDS. ref SDS 41
B00455 -     0005
B00457 -      ..
B00458 -     [On 020608 knowledge define case study hard for people to grasp,
B00459 -     ref SDS 47 CC6J; philosophy grounding for "Knowledge Management"
B00460 -     reviewed 050115, ref SDS 49 SF5K, correlates with cognitive
B00461 -     science reviewed 960518, ref SDS 8 GS58, management tasks
B00462 -     considered 000307, ref SDS 17 767G, and physical science locality
B00463 -     principle power of knowledge predicts and controls the future,
B00464 -     reviewed on 040312, ref SDS 48 YH4G
B00466 -      ..
B00467 -     [On 040312 Schombert's lectures on 21st century sciene
B00468 -     present compelxity and chaos that introduce randomness,
B00469 -     from which he concludes that the gap between proof and
B00470 -     truth can be narrowed, but never closed. ref SDS 48 8F8G
B00472 -      ..
B00473 -     [On 050115 Jack Park comments that Mary's paper holds that
B00474 -     Perice's semiotics presents learning as deeper than
B00475 -     refining accuracy of knowledge through experience.
B00476 -     ref SDS 49 MN8O
B00478 -  ..
B00479 - Tenuousness of accuracy is met by the human mind's constant search for
B00480 - cooborating feedback, especially on important issues, alignment of new
B00481 - information with patterns of prior experience, and summary to
B00482 - facilitate making decisions, which activity taken in together is
B00483 - sometimes called "intelligence," as explained in POIMS. ref OF 1 0561
B00484 -
B00485 -     [On 010725 Wayne Wetzel explains SDS enables accuracy with
B00486 -     triangulation. ref SDS 46 PO6N
B00488 -  ..
B00489 - Andy Grove, Chairman of Intel, writes in his book "Only the
B00490 - Paranoid Survive," reviewed on 980307, about the tenuousness
B00491 - of mental maps that are awfully forgiving of ambiguity, which
B00492 - he proposes to redress through diligence taking copious notes.
B00493 - ref SDS 9 3668
B00494 -
B00495 -     [...see also below on "meaning." ref SDS 0 3782
B00497 -  ..
B00498 - A huge problem Peirce does not address is difficulty people
B00499 - have providing and encountering feedback without suffering
B00500 - debilitating emotional trauma, cited in the NWO... ref OF 2
B00501 - 2670
B00502 -
B00503 -     [On 000723 one cause of resistance to feedback is that it
B00504 -     delays action. ref SDS 39 2960
B00506 -  ..
B00507 - Communication Metrics supports Groves's call for analysis to
B00508 - discover discover and build understanding, which applies
B00509 - Peirces's call for increasingly refined investigations by
B00510 - adding feedback and alignment for traceability to original
B00511 - sources, also called in accounting an "audit trail," that
B00512 - links text patterns from succeeding related events which
B00513 - reveal varying degrees of continuity and discontinuity, as
B00514 - called out by ISO criteria, reviewed on 950721. ref SDS 5 1740
B00515 - Continual pattern matching increases the chances of correctly
B00516 - understanding cause and effect, also called "knowledge."
B00518 -  ..
B00519 - Communication with collaborating investigators to search for
B00520 - truth, cited by Peirce, aligns with Eric's call on 000423 for
B00521 - the DKR to augment human intelligence by supporting
B00522 - collaboration and deliberation. ref SDS 23 5933
B00523 -
B00524 -
B00526 -       ..
B00527 -      DKR and Collective IQ through Collaboration Supported by Peirce
B00528 -
B00529 -      Peirce's theory seems to draw a correlation between knowledge,
B00530 -      experience and communication; Existential Graphs are the key
B00531 -      instrument in fulfilling his ambition. ref OF 4 3869
B00532 -
B00533 -      "Truth" comes through cooperation of people who present their
B00534 -      experience, creating a community where each member gains a
B00535 -      broader perspective (collective experience) but which can only
B00536 -      remain vital through continued individual contributions. Trying
B00537 -      to overcome the solipsism or individualism (nominalism) that
B00538 -      characterizes both rationalism and empiricism, Peirce (based on
B00539 -      his own experience as a working scientist) developed his semiotic
B00540 -      and pragmaticism to account philosophically for a community of
B00541 -      inquirers as what makes knowing possible. ref OF 4 2109
B00543 -       ..
B00544 -      "The real is that which, sooner or later, information and
B00545 -      reasoning would finally result in, and which is therefore
B00546 -      independent of the vagaries of me and you.  Thus, the very origin
B00547 -      of the conception of reality shows that this conception
B00548 -      essentially involves the notion of a COMMUNITY, without definite
B00549 -      limits, and capable of an indefinite increase of knowledge."
B00550 -      (W2:239), ref OF 4 5727
B00552 -       ..
B00553 -      Growth of knowledge relies on effective communicational
B00554 -      conditions, operations, and awareness: careful observation and
B00555 -      ingenious conceptualization generate knowledge only insofar as we
B00556 -      collaboratively validate and continue to test our interpretations
B00557 -      of what might be true. ref OF 4 8316
B00559 -       ..
B00560 -      Knowledge must evolve from the diversity of experiences from the
B00561 -      continuity of collective inquiry, by means of communication.  His
B00562 -      semiotic examines the esthetic, ethical, and logical basis of the
B00563 -      self- critical control necessary for collective experience to
B00564 -      progress effectively. ref OF 4 4209
B00566 -          ..
B00567 -         This seems to fit the rationale of Doug's DKR objectives to
B00568 -         augment collective IQ through collaboration, reviewed on
B00569 -         991222. ref SDS 15 9167  It supports emphasis on collaboration
B00570 -         cited by Jack Park that leads to Eric's focus on email as a
B00571 -         popular communication method, reviewed on 000505. ref SDS 26
B00572 -         4392
B00574 -          ..
B00575 -         One might argue that it is entirely speculative in that
B00576 -         Peirce, Doug, Jack, Eric and everyone else have never had the
B00577 -         opportunity to test their expectation that collaboration leads
B00578 -         to truth.  My own view is that doing things, like drivng a
B00579 -         nail, sending a ship to the moon, etc., and measuring the
B00580 -         result against expectations works better than collaboration,
B00581 -         although the latter is an important aspect of human life that
B00582 -         offers clues about understanding, and definitely requires
B00583 -         support.  Accordingly, collaboration is an important part of
B00584 -         knowledge management, but there is much more that needs to be
B00585 -         done.
B00586 -
B00587 -
B00588 -
B00589 -
B00590 -
B006 -

SUBJECTS
Most Important Philosopher in United States
Background History Identification
Existential Graph Communicates Experience to Formulate Logic Theories

B305 -
B30601 -  ..
B30602 - Introduction
B30604 -       ..
B30605 -      Most Important Philosopher in United States, a Giant
B30606 -      Peirces Work Requires Research of Unpublished Manuscripts
B30607 -
B30608 -      Placing the Existential Graphs within Peirce's philosophical
B30609 -      context requires perseverance. Although 10,000 pages of his
B30610 -      scientific work were published during his lifetime (1839- 1914),
B30611 -      most of his philosophical writings (100,000 manuscript pages
B30612 -      archived in the Houghton Library at Harvard) remain unpublished,
B30613 -      except in 30-year-old microfilm. ref OF 4 0954
B30615 -       ..
B30616 -      Existential Graph is a communication instrument for validating
B30617 -      the procedure to reason by experience. ref OF 4 2907
B30619 -       ..
B30620 -      Existential Graphs is system of deductive logic to observe and
B30621 -      carefully build concepts that match what sophisticated
B30622 -      instruments and techniques have given empirical investigation.
B30623 -      ref OF 4 3300
B30624 -
B30625 -          [On 001214 Jack Park explains Qualitative Process Theory
B30626 -          (QPT) uses graphs to show relations that form ontology.
B30627 -          ref SDS 42 U35N
B30629 -       ..
B30630 -      It supplements rigid, deductive logic that is rule-driven
B30631 -      (algorithmic); only with a logical instrument such as Graphs can
B30632 -      the conduct of demonstrative reasoning be "observed" [3] well
B30633 -      enough to provide proof that conduct makes meaning become more
B30634 -      and more reliable. ref OF 4 3300
B30636 -           ..
B30637 -          Logical graphs are precursors to CPM and org charts that map
B30638 -          out logical structures.
B30640 -           ..
B30641 -          In 1979 for final argument in Welch v. State of California I
B30642 -          prepared an "Existential Graph" showing conclusions flow from
B30643 -          the trial record.
B30645 -       ..
B30646 -      "Many people share the opinion that Charles S. Peirce is a
B30647 -      philosophical giant, perhaps the most important philosopher to
B30648 -      have emerged in the United States. Most philosophers think of him
B30649 -      as the founder of 'pragmatism' and are aware of doctrines--about
B30650 -      truth and meaning, for example--which they describe as
B30651 -      'Peircean'. ref OF 4 6732
B30652 -
B30653 -
B30654 -
B307 -

SUBJECTS
Cognitive Science Emerged from Peirce's Philosophy

B403 -
B40401 -       ..
B40402 -      Cognitive Science Evolved from Peirce's Work
B40403 -
B40404 -      ...unique insights in Peirce's thought--"the recognition of the
B40405 -      role played by symbols or language in human behavior and
B40406 -      knowledge; and that human knowledge is an achievement of
B40407 -      biological organisms functioning in social contexts."  He
B40408 -      combined inquiry of logic and other regulative principles, with a
B40409 -      recognition of the equally indispensable role of sensory
B40410 -      observation", ref OF 4 7007
B40412 -          ..
B40413 -         Peirce who died in 1914, the year my dad was born, seems to
B40414 -         have layed a foundation for cognitive science, 50 years later
B40415 -         with the publication of George Miller's paper, reviewed on
B40416 -         990303, ref SDS 10 6177, which defines knowledge and meaning
B40417 -         based on biological capacities of the human brain that
B40418 -         processes sensory observation, as a continual information
B40419 -         stream.
B40420 -
B40421 -
B40422 -
B40423 -
B405 -

SUBJECTS
Guessing Large Part of Reasoning

B503 -
B50401 -       ..
B50402 -      Reasoning Can be Explained as Hueristic Guessing on Alignment
B50403 -
B50404 -      Peirce proposed that logic as a science of reasoning, in terms of
B50405 -      semiotic, with three branches:
B50406 -
B50407 -           •  abduction
B50408 -           •  induction
B50409 -           •  deduction
B50411 -       ..
B50412 -      Abduction refers to the creative effort to formulate hypotheses
B50413 -      (guesses) that represent how conditions in the world must be in
B50414 -      terms of facts (relations among objects) to render any body of
B50415 -      data conceptually explicable. ref OF 4 7650
B50417 -           ..
B50418 -          Seems to align with analysis on 960321 of Landauer's work
B50419 -          citing induction as a process of guessing common alignment of
B50420 -          patterns to assign meaning through association. ref SDS 6
B50421 -          7382
B50422 -
B50423 -
B50424 -
B50425 -
B505 -

SUBJECTS
Ontology Structure of Knowledge
Semotic Theory Knowledge and Logic Derived from Experience
Epistomology Meaning Through Representation of Existential Relations
Ontology Definition
Leaning by Experience Generalizes Logic, Theory of Semotic
Semiotics Knowledge = Communication + Meaning + Inference (Causation)
Semiotics = Communication + Meaning + Inference
Semiotic Knowledge = Communication + Meaning + Inference (Causation =
Semotic Logic Signs from Sound (Speech) Symbols (Alphabet)
Alphabet Most Powerful Technology, Improved by SDS

BL12 -
BL1301 -       ..
BL1302 -      Sight and Sound use Symbols to Represent Experience
BL1303 -      Ontology, Epistomology Represent Experience Through Objects
BL1304 -      Semiotic Theory:  Knowledge Derived from Experience and Symbols
BL1305 -
BL1306 -      Semiotic theory grew from traditional logic and "semiosis," a
BL1307 -      Greek conception of how representing experience through objects
BL1308 -      of signs conveyed by sound and symbols like the alphabet makes it
BL1309 -      possible to generalize (symbolize, categorize, measure): to
BL1310 -      establish relations that make possible continuous growth or
BL1311 -      spreading of knowledge and ideas. ref OF 4 1612
BL1312 -
BL1313 -          [On 000713 some authorities describe semiotics as covering
BL1314 -          communication + meaning + inference. ref SDS 37 4078
BL1316 -           ..
BL1317 -          [On 000716 signs, symbols support alphabet technology.
BL1318 -          ref SDS 38 7216
BL1320 -           ..
BL1321 -          [On 000718 semiotics uses logic from signs in sounds and
BL1322 -          symbols, e.g., alphabet. ref SDS 38 7216
BL1324 -       ..
BL1325 -      Ontology examines the structure of the world -- elements and
BL1326 -      relations of existence. ref OF 4 4180
BL1327 -
BL1328 -         This has some correlation to the notion of an organic subject
BL1329 -         structure used to organize the record in SDS.
BL1331 -       ..
BL1332 -      Epistomology examines a second dimension of semiotic; its field
BL1333 -      of investigation is the meaning of the world (our relations to
BL1334 -      the world through representations of its existential relations).
BL1335 -      ref OF 4 3149
BL1336 -
BL1337 -         Need example to illustrate meaning of epistomology.
BL1339 -          ..
BL1340 -         On 000311 epistomology was used to describe an organization or
BL1341 -         assigning of category names for knowledge that are used to
BL1342 -         organize an encyclopedia. ref SDS 18 1034  The same kind of
BL1343 -         structure applied in organizing educational classes.
BL1345 -       ..
BL1346 -      Peirce's semotic theory explains learning by experience as a
BL1347 -      context for generalizing logic: "Logic, in its general sense, is,
BL1348 -      as I believe I have shown, only another name for semiotic" (MS
BL1349 -      798; CP 2.227--1896). ref OF 4 6400
BL1351 -          ..
BL1352 -         Supports abstract summary of knowledge, per above. ref SDS 0
BL1353 -         0042
BL1355 -          ..
BL1356 -         Einstein drew a correlation between knowledge and experience,
BL1357 -         reported on 991119. ref SDS 14 3066
BL1359 -          ..
BL1360 -         This seems to align with Campbell's view of connectionist
BL1361 -         theory that humans reason based on experience, not formal
BL1362 -         rules of logic, reviewed on 900303. ref SDS 3 3002
BL1364 -       ..
BL1365 -      Decision Support Applies Theories from Experience
BL1366 -      Science Formulates Theory for Experience to Guide Decisions
BL1367 -
BL1368 -      Semiotic views science as resolving different observations from
BL1369 -      experiences to formulate and test hypotheses that form a
BL1370 -      coherent, valid, and reliable interpretation from which
BL1371 -      investigation can proceed. ref OF 4 2229
BL1372 -
BL1373 -         Perhaps Peirce gets to this later, but it would seem that
BL1374 -         another purpose for formulating a theory to explain
BL1375 -         experience, in addition to supporting further investigation,
BL1376 -         is to increase the predictive power of a theory for relying on
BL1377 -         experience to choose a course of action, i.e., past is
BL1378 -         prologue, called out in POIMS. ref OF 1 1112
BL1380 -          ..
BL1381 -         Yes, seems to be addressed below on the role of time and
BL1382 -         experience is assessing probability, tendency. ref SDS 0 4671
BL1383 -
BL1384 -
BL1385 -
BL1386 -
BL1387 -
BL1388 -
BL14 -

SUBJECTS
Meaning Derived from Patterns Experience and Symbols, Alphabet
Leaning by Experience Generalizes Logic, Theory of Semotic
Communication Supports Learning More than Logic
Communication Meaning Varies for Each Person's Experience
Shared Meaning Meeting Notes Linked to Common History

BQ07 -
BQ0801 -       ..
BQ0802 -      Logic Inadequate for Learning Because Omits Communication
BQ0803 -      Communication Conveys Meaning Through Language Patterns
BQ0804 -      Understanding from Patterns Experience and Symbols, Alphabet
BQ0805 -      Meaning Derived from Correlation with Language Patterns
BQ0806 -
BQ0807 -      Peirce's semotic theory explains learning by experience as a
BQ0808 -      context for generalizing logic: "Logic, in its general sense, is,
BQ0809 -      as I believe I have shown, only another name for semiotic" (MS
BQ0810 -      798; CP 2.227--1896). ref OF 4 6400
BQ0812 -       ..
BQ0813 -      Peirce considered traditional logic to be inadequate for
BQ0814 -      examining the nature of inquiry (learning) as the process by
BQ0815 -      which we can examine beliefs, interpretations, and assumptions in
BQ0816 -      the course of our experience, because it provides no
BQ0817 -      comprehensive account of language and meaning--of communication.
BQ0818 -      ref OF 4 4818
BQ0819 -
BQ0820 -           [On 010114 case study illustrates using SDS records on the
BQ0821 -           Internet to empower continual learning that improves
BQ0822 -           competence for solving complex problems. ref SDS 43 0001
BQ0824 -       ..
BQ0825 -      Hookway explains: "An argument familiar among empiricists runs
BQ0826 -      thus: we can show that we understand an expression by providing a
BQ0827 -      synonym or by giving a verbal definition of it, and we can use
BQ0828 -      synonyms and definitions to teach the meanings of expressions.
BQ0829 -      However, these represent indirect ways of explaining the meaning
BQ0830 -      of an expression; they simply point out that it is the same as
BQ0831 -      the meaning of some other expression.  In order to break out of
BQ0832 -      the web of words, we must have a way of explaining or showing
BQ0833 -      what the expression applies to" (259). ref OF 4 5071
BQ0835 -          ..
BQ0836 -         Supports abstract, per above. ref SDS 0 0042
BQ0838 -          ..
BQ0839 -         Seems to support Landauer's formulation in his paper on LSA
BQ0840 -         showing that "meaning" is grounded in the correlation of
BQ0841 -         language patterns formed by alphabetic symbols in writing,
BQ0842 -         that can be mapped to patterns of sounds from speech, both
BQ0843 -         associated with patterns of cause and effect from experience
BQ0844 -         on results relative to needs and desires founded in human
BQ0845 -         biology that seeks outcomes to live and divide. reviewed on
BQ0846 -         960321. ref SDS 6 2882
BQ0848 -          ..
BQ0849 -         Per above, ref SDS 0 0784, aligns with Campbell's view of
BQ0850 -         connectionist theory that humans reason based on experience,
BQ0851 -         not formal rules of logic, reviewed on 900303. ref SDS 3 3002
BQ0853 -       ..
BQ0854 -      Einstein's relativity theories, ref OF 4 5456,
BQ0855 -
BQ0856 -         •  do not account for communication between observers;
BQ0857 -
BQ0858 -         •  time is conceived as reversible, giving observers no basis
BQ0859 -            for comparing time intervals.
BQ0861 -           ..
BQ0862 -          Need examples to illustrate why this is interesting???
BQ0864 -           ..
BQ0865 -          Presumably this helps us understand "communication," but
BQ0866 -          how; what does it tell us about communication?
BQ0868 -       ..
BQ0869 -      A theory of experience must explain the nature of contextual
BQ0870 -      conditions in which communication is possible. ref OF 4 3760
BQ0871 -
BQ0872 -          What does this mean?  Need example.
BQ0874 -       ..
BQ0875 -      Meaning Communication Varies by Connections to Experience
BQ0876 -
BQ0877 -      An expression has virtual, not factual, meaning--meaning that
BQ0878 -      thought and communication continually generate.  What makes an
BQ0879 -      expression more than its objective properties is the
BQ0880 -      not-strictly-causal (only vaguely determinable) relation to what
BQ0881 -      someone's thought might take it to mean--in a particular
BQ0882 -      space-time context, for some purpose. ref OF 4 1672
BQ0884 -       ..
BQ0885 -      No present actual thought (which is mere feeling) has any
BQ0886 -      meaning, any intellectual value; for this lies, not in what is
BQ0887 -      actually thought, but in what this thought may be connected with
BQ0888 -      in representation by subsequent thoughts; so that the meaning of
BQ0889 -      a thought is altogether something virtual. ref OF 4 1855
BQ0891 -           ..
BQ0892 -          Supports point above about need to continually work on
BQ0893 -          discovering accuracy. ref SDS 0 7380
BQ0895 -           ..
BQ0896 -          This seems to support connectionist theory that meaning
BQ0897 -          drawn from communication is derived from correlation of new
BQ0898 -          information patterns with experience in the mind, and so
BQ0899 -          necessarily varies for each person.
BQ0901 -           ..
BQ0902 -          Seems to reflect Landauer's point about meaning drift,
BQ0903 -          ref SDS 8 3734, that makes communication the biggest risk in
BQ0904 -          enterprise, reviewed on 990924. ref SDS 11 5576
BQ0906 -           ..
BQ0907 -          Communication needs work at building and maintaining shared
BQ0908 -          meaning, but it will never be fully aligned.
BQ0910 -       ..
BQ0911 -      From any (necessarily limited) human point of view, the meaning
BQ0912 -      of any expression cannot be simply a matter of probability
BQ0913 -      (established conventional response) or actuality (conditionally
BQ0914 -      stimulated response) but must include possibility (an
BQ0915 -      individual's unique experience in which the interpretation of
BQ0916 -      meaning occurs) that cannot help but generate new meaning--
BQ0917 -      growing experience.  The essential continuity of experience, in
BQ0918 -      which meaning is always a possibility in the future, is
BQ0919 -      theoretically fundamental to Peirce's pragmatism (pragmaticism)
BQ0920 -      --a point ignored by his contemporary, as well as by the modern,
BQ0921 -      "pragmatists." ref OF 4 8091
BQ0923 -           ..
BQ0924 -          Seems to align with Landauer's explanation of meaning as the
BQ0925 -          relationship of new information with existing patterns forged
BQ0926 -          from prior experience, such that new information changes the
BQ0927 -          meaning of everything that is already known. ref SDS 6 2882
BQ0928 -          The change might reinforce, or conflict, but is most likely
BQ0929 -          tangential.  Yet, over time, even tangential change
BQ0930 -          eventually leads to reverse original understandings, i.e.,
BQ0931 -          patterns of cause and effect.
BQ0932 -
BQ0933 -
BQ0934 -
BQ0935 -
BQ0936 -
BQ10 -

SUBJECTS
Experience Derived from Memory, Records
Present Experience and Memory of Immediate Past
Intelligence Augmented by Better Memory
Memory Improved by SDS
Time Multiplies Errors, Com Metrics Risk Management
Reasoning Time Key Factor Chronology Sequence
Reasoning is Largely Guessing Dimension Matching Patterns

BY09 -
BY1001 -       ..
BY1002 -      Experience Derives from Memories, Records of Past
BY1003 -      Present Derives from Consciousness of Immediate Past
BY1004 -
BY1005 -      We establish experience of the past (in memories and records of
BY1006 -      all kinds)--even our awareness of the present (to the extent that
BY1007 -      we turn our attention to it) becomes consciousness of the
BY1008 -      immediate past--but we cannot have such experience of the future.
BY1009 -      ref OF 4 2156
BY1011 -  ..
BY1012 - This is duplicated above. ref SDS 0 2156
BY1013 -
BY1014 -
BY1015 -           [On 000722 wisdom derives from connecting cause and effect
BY1016 -           over long time spans or cycles. ref SDS 40 5022
BY1018 -          ..
BY1019 -         Awareness of the present derived from consciousness of the
BY1020 -         past seems to place a premium on command of accurate history,
BY1021 -         cited in POIMS theory of time management. ref OF 1 1112
BY1023 -          ..
BY1024 -         SDS supports remembering, memory, and understanding experience
BY1025 -         in relation to relevant context, provides important support
BY1026 -         for augmenting human intelligence for producing useful
BY1027 -         knowledge.
BY1028 -
BY1029 -             [On 000517 Morris and Eric during a meeting at Intel
BY1030 -             seemed to recognize that SDS aids remembering. ref SDS 31
BY1031 -             5083
BY1033 -              ..
BY1034 -             [On 000713 SDS enhances memroy to augment intelligence,
BY1035 -             discussed with Cliff Joslyn at LANL. ref SDS 37 4267
BY1037 -       ..
BY1038 -      Probability Compares Experiences Over Time
BY1039 -      Time Irreversible Continuity of Experience Yields Meaning Growth
BY1040 -
BY1041 -      Peirce's philosophical observation of this "asymmetry of
BY1042 -      experience," based on the irreversibility of time, indicated to
BY1043 -      him a fundamental "directionality in experience": we are bound in
BY1044 -      our conscious experience to "go from the past toward the future"
BY1045 -      (CSP-MS 304; 1903).  This metaphysical observation was the
BY1046 -      foundation for his semiotic as a theory of the continuity of
BY1047 -      experience (the growth of meaning, rather than its haphazard
BY1048 -      expansion). Uncertainty about the future tends to draw us out of
BY1049 -      the certainty of the past.  Notions of probability and chance
BY1050 -      (tendencies) have no meaning (are of no use to us) without our
BY1051 -      awareness of time, which gives us the basis for comparing our
BY1052 -      experiences through thought and communication (and the urge to do
BY1053 -      so). ref OF 4 6000
BY1054 -
BY1055 -         [...seems to support semotic philosophy that aids decision
BY1056 -         making. ref SDS 0 4081
BY1057 -
BY1058 -
BY1059 -
BY1060 -
BY1061 -
BY1062 -
BY1063 -
BY1064 -
BY11 -