ONT Re: Differential Logic
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DLOG. Note D34
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| If only the word 'artificial' were associated with
| the idea of 'art', or expert skill gained through
| voluntary apprenticeship (instead of suggesting
| the factitious and unreal), we might say that
| 'logical' refers to artificial thought.
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| John Dewey, 'How We Think', [Dew, 56-57]
Propositional Transformations
In this Subdivision I develop a comprehensive set of concepts for
dealing with transformations between universes of discourse. In
this most general context the source and the target universes of
a transformation are allowed to be distinct, but may also be one
and the same. When these concepts are applied to dynamic systems
one focuses on the important special cases of transformations that
map a universe into itself, and transformations of this shape may be
interpreted as the state transitions of a discrete dynamical process,
as these take place among the myriad ways that a universe of discourse
might change, and by that change turn into itself.
Jon Awbrey
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