If you’re interested in the categories ontology mentioned in my post called “On a New List of Categories” and you’re looking for some background, check out Joseph Goguen’s work on algebraic semiotics. As described by Goguen in “On Notation” Peirce’s semiotics forms the basis for a relational theory of meaning for algebraic specifications.
I make available for all to use an OWL ontology of Charles Sander’s Perice’s “On a New List of Categories” under a Creative Commons By license. In this early manuscript (1868), we see the foundations of his semiotics that later matures in MS 478 Sundry Logical Conceptions, MS 450 Nomenclatures and Divisions of Triadic Relations and MS 517 New Elements.
As the old year winds down and the new year approaches it’s time to take stock of our beliefs and increase awareness of what’s emerging in the world around us. Reminiscent of Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions, the following quote from Charles Sanders Peirce’s Of Reasoning in General says so much: