While clearing my office yesterday, I came across a paper by Bochenski on
categories in Aristotle, et al. Very interesting.
I made some ignorant remarks a couple of years ago [I think on this list]
when I did not realize that a contributor had been talking about
algebraists' category theory
Arnold:
On Apr 29, 2006, at 1:06 AM, Peirce Discussion Forum digest wrote:
In Vol IV
of the Collected Papers (and, I would guess, throughout the New
Elements of
Mathematics, a copy of Eisele's edition of which I would dearly
love to
get!) he goes to considerable lengths in exploring the
To everybody interested in the Prigogine / Peirce issue:
in 1981 I visited Prigogine at the universite libre in
Bruxelles. I told about some similarities between his approach in
non-equilibrium thermodynamics esp. the order-creating power of
dissipative structures and Peirce's ideas
