Transformations of Logical Graphs • Discussion 1
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/05/22/transformations-of-logical-graphs-discussion-1/

Re: Laws of Form
• https://groups.io/g/lawsofform/topic/transformations_of_logical/105927945

Mauro Bertani
• https://groups.io/g/lawsofform/message/3204

Dear Mauro,

The couple of pages linked below give the clearest and quickest introduction I've been able to manage so far when it comes to the elements of logical graphs, at least, in the way I've come to understand them. The first page gives a lot of detail by way of motivation and computational implementation, so you could easily put that off till you feel a need for it. The second page lays out the precise axioms or initials I use — the first algebraic axiom varies a bit from Spencer Brown for a better fit with C.S. Peirce — and also shows the parallels between the dual interpretations.

Logical Graphs • First Impressions
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/08/24/logical-graphs-first-impressions/

Logical Graphs • Formal Development
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/09/01/logical-graphs-formal-development-a/

Additional Resources —

Logic Syllabus
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/logic-syllabus/

Survey of Animated Logical Graphs
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/03/18/survey-of-animated-logical-graphs-7/

Survey of Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/26/survey-of-semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-5/

#Peirce #Logic #LogicalGraphs #EntitativeGraphs #ExistentialGraphs
#SpencerBrown #LawsOfForm #BooleanFunctions #PropositionalCalculus
#CactusSyntax #MinimalNegationOperators #MathematicalDuality #Form

Mathematical Duality in Logical Graphs • 1.1
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/05/03/mathematical-duality-in-logical-graphs-1/

“All other sciences without exception depend upon the principles of mathematics; and mathematics borrows nothing from them but hints.”

— C.S. Peirce • “Logic of Number”

“A principal intention of this essay is to separate what are known as algebras of logic from the subject of logic, and to re‑align them with mathematics.”

— G. Spencer Brown • “Laws of Form”

The duality between entitative and existential interpretations of logical graphs tells us something important about the relation between logic and mathematics. It tells us the mathematical forms giving structure to reasoning are deeper and more abstract at once than their logical interpretations.

A formal duality points to a more encompassing unity, founding a calculus of forms whose expressions can be read in alternate ways by switching the meanings assigned to a pair of primitive terms. Spencer Brown's mathematical approach to “Laws of Form” and the whole of Peirce's work on the mathematics of logic shows both thinkers were deeply aware of this principle.

Peirce explored a variety of dualities in logic which he treated on analogy with the dualities in projective geometry. This gave rise to formal systems where the initial constants, and thus their geometric and graph‑theoretic representations, had no uniquely fixed meanings but could be given dual interpretations in logic.

#Peirce #Logic #LogicalGraphs #EntitativeGraphs #ExistentialGraphs
#SpencerBrown #LawsOfForm #BooleanFunctions #PropositionalCalculus
#CactusSyntax #MinimalNegationOperators #MathematicalDuality #Form