Another really significant figure sadly gone, and Merrelyn was still working and contributing very recently. I’ll leave the first brief obituary to the Socio-Technica Systems Round Table, as per their mailing list announcement: It is with great sadness that we share the news of Merrelyn Emery‘s passing last week, after a long illness. Anyone who worked […]
This week in systemic design
The Porter Ratio (Quinn Porter, AHQ papers) is R = λ_self / λ_env. λ_self is the rate of internal structure restoration and propagation. λ_env is the rate of environmental disruption. When R ≥ R★ (the ostiary/coherence threshold), prior states remain active, forming a self-sustaining interior with temporal depth and recursive coherence. Below it, structure dissipates […]
Returning to Peirce’s example of inductive inference in Comment 2, let’s try to get a clearer picture of why he connects it with disjunctive terms and indicial signs. At this point in time I can’t say I’m entirely satisfied with my understanding of the relationship between disjunctive terms, indicial signs, and inductive inferences as presented […]
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