Dear Jon, list I think we mostly agree here. To a certain degree, Peirce's doctrine of propositions is a version of IDOL as you call it, and a strong one at that. Peirce exactly celebrated his Existential Graphs for their iconic properties. But it is very local version of IDOL only - an icon only goes as far as it goes, as you indicate. And no icon gets us anywere without the accompaniment of indices and symbols. Best F
Den 06/09/2014 kl. 04.40 skrev Jon Awbrey <jawb...@att.net<mailto:jawb...@att.net>>: Re: Frederik Stjernfelt At: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/13901 Exactly. And this is one of those places where we have to watch out for the possibility of a backward step, where it is very tempting to fall back on the "Mirror Of Nature Theory Of Science" (MONTOS) and the "Iconic Doctrine Of Language" (IDOL). ;) The diagrammatic and dynamic qualities of Peirce's logic, as epitomized in the entitative and existential interpretations of his logical graphs, were chief among the features that drew me to explore his logical systems from the very beginning of my studies. But analogies and icons all break in time, at one 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. Regards, Jon
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