Stephen - "a slaying of what was there?" Do you mean the letter killeth the spirit? J Actually I think this is pretty close to what I've said (citing Eugene Gendlin) in Chapter 4 of Turning Signs (http://www.gnusystems.ca/bdy.htm#person). But then this is an introspective view of mental activity, which according to Peirce is unreliable unless we can investigate it logically through public observations.
gary f. From: Stephen C. Rose [mailto:stever...@gmail.com] Sent: 31-Jul-14 6:39 PM To: John Collier; Peirce List Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] [biosemiotics:6231] Re: biosemiotics is the basis for It is the penumbra of everything within the mind that you experience prior to putting a word to it that attests to the independent existence of "uninterpreted phenomena". I think it is for this reason that the writing of words is always a sort of slaying of what was there. This is a temporal event. It proceeds I think from the conscious sense of there being more than one can name and its editing down to one or more terms that is seen to be the named sign. This is my experience of how signs may evolve within consciousness. @stephencrose <https://twitter.com/stephencrose>
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