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A Foundational Mindset: Firstness, Secondness, Thirdness
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content: Unlocking Some Insights into Charles Sanders Peirce's Writings Download PDF I first encountered Charles Sanders Peirce from the writings of John Sowa about a decade ago. I was transitioning my research interests from search and the deep Web to the semantic Web. Sowa's writings are an excellent starting point for learning about logic and ontologies [1]. I was particularly taken by Sowa's presentation on the role of signs in our understanding of language and concepts [2]. Early on it was clear to me that knowledge modeling needed to focus on the inherent meaning of things and concepts, not their surface forms and labels. Sowa helped pique my interest that Peirce's theory of semiotics was perhaps a foundational basis for getting at these ideas. In the decade since that first encounter, I have based my own writings on Peirce's insights on a number of occasions [3]. I have also developed a fascination into his life and teachings and thoughts across many topics. I have become convinced that Peirce was the greatest American combination of philosopher, logician, scientist and mathematician, and quite possibly one of the greatest thinkers ever. While the current renaissance in artificial intelligence can certainly point to the seminal contributions of George Boole, Claude Shannon, and John von Neumann in computing and information theory (of course among many others), my own view, not alone, is that C.S. Peirce belongs in those ranks from the perspective of knowledge representation and the meaning of information. "The primary task of ontology, as it was practiced by its founder Aristotle, is to bridge the gap between what exists and the languages, both natural and artificial, for talking and reasoning about what exists." John Sowa [4] Peirce is hard to decipher, for some of the reasons outlined below. Yet I have continued to try to crack the nut of Peirce's insights because his focus is so clearly on the organization and categorization of information, essential to the knowled…
encoded: Unlocking Some Insights into Charles Sanders Peirce’s Writings Download PDF I first encountered Charles Sanders Peirce from the writings of John Sowa about a decade ago. I was transitioning my research interests from search and the deep Web to the semantic Web. Sowa’s writings are an excellent starting point for learning about logic and ontologies [1]. I was particularly taken by Sowa’s presentation on the role of signs in our understanding of language and concepts [2]. Early on it was clear to me that knowledge modeling needed to focus on the inherent meaning of things and concepts, not their surface forms and labels. Sowa helped pique my interest that Peirce’s theory of semiotics was perhaps a foundational basis for getting at these ideas. In the decade since that first encounter, I have based my own writings on Peirce’s insights on a number of occasions [3]. I have also developed a fascination into his life and teachings and thoughts across many topics. I have become convinced that Peirce was the greatest American combination of philosopher, logician, scientist and mathematician, and quite possibly one of the greatest thinkers ever. While the current renaissance in artificial intelligence can certainly point to the seminal contributions of George Boole, Claude Shannon, and John von Neumann in computing and information theory (of course among many others), my own view, not alone, is that C.S. Peirce belongs in those ranks from the perspective of knowledge representation and the meaning of information. “The primary task of ontology, as it was practiced by its founder Aristotle, is to bridge the gap between what exists and the languages, both natural and artificial, for talking and reasoning about what exists.” John Sowa [4] Peirce is hard to decipher, for some of the reasons outlined below. Yet I have continued to try to crack the nut of Peirce’s insights because his focus is so clearly on the organization and categorization of information, essential to the knowled…
topic: Adaptive Innovation
topic: Artificial Intelligence
topic: Charles Sanders Peirce
topic: Knowledge-based Artificial Intelligence
topic: Peircean Principles
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links to: http://www.webofstories.com/play/marvin.minsky/111
links to: Categories: The Top-level Ontology
links to: Some Organizing Principles For A Unified Top-Level Ontology
links to: On Diagrams for Peirce's 10, 28, and 66 Classes of Signs

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