Tom, Sung, list:
I might be wrong or naive, but I have always given for granted that,
according to Peirce: diagrams, algebra, language itself, etc, were
icinic due to the category of Relation rather than simply Analogy,
which is only a sort of relation, ratio, logos (kata-analogon means
just that: according to a proportional relation) and likewise.
Perhaps my misunderstanding derives from the importance that Whitehead
and Russell gave to relations (internal, external). I stand to be
coorected with gratitude.
However, in Peirce's New List, as I recall, secondness is defined as
Relation and, likewise, the three categories are themselves described/
defined as correlates. There is a privileged trichotomic involvement,
if not implied entailment, for diagrams; a kind of virtuous
circularity in which semiosis allows for Rhematic iconic legisigns as
diagrams as well as for natural and artificial languages in accordance
to their relevant trichotomies.
If Relation is pervasive (both in analogies and icons considered as
relations) I beleive that there is a timeless quality and a categorial
Firstenss inherent to it.
Best,
Eduardo Forastieri-Braschi
On Sep 6, 2014, at 11:27 AM, Tom Gollier wrote:
If propositions are diagrams, dependent on analogy, logic and
"symbolic matrices" are surely diagrams as well. Formal logic
suffers from a certain sterility, I think, precisely because it
focuses exclusively on the logical diagram itself, forgetting the
analogies at it's base and not worrying all that much about it's
experiential consequences.
Tom
On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 3:30 AM, Sungchul Ji <s...@rci.rutgers.edu>
wrote:
Jon wrote:
"But analogies and icons all break in time, at one (090614-1)
point or another, and it is only their embedding in a
more fluid and robust symbolic matrix that makes it
possible for us to use them where they fit and to set
them aside when they fail."
By "symbolic matrix" do you mean algebraic and formal expressions in
contrast to diagrams ?
Sung
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