Dear Jon, lists Peirce use the concept "degenerate" in his sign theory in analogy to the geometric sense of the term.. Referring to conic sections, certain sections are generic (hyperbolas, ellipses) while other sections are degenerate because corresponding to non-generic cases where one or more variables vanish (parabolas, circles, crossing lines, point). Thus, degenerate cases only exist as limit cases of generic ones - (but there is nothing "impure" in being a circle …). Thus, isolated icons and indices exist, but only as limit cases of symbols - of which full, general propositions constitute the center category (this is paraphrasing the Kaina Stoikheia from memory). Best F
Den 27/09/2014 kl. 06.00 skrev Jon Awbrey <jawb...@att.net<mailto:jawb...@att.net>>: Pure Icon and Pure Index. What in the world could those be? And how could a "degenerate" something be a "pure" anything? And while we're at it, must there also be pure symbols, too?
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