At 01:15 PM 10/5/2014, Gary Fuhrman wrote:
Nobody (least of all Peirce!) is naming bits "symbols" or
"legisigns". Bits (as the name implies!) can only be small pieces of
symbols in the semiotic sense of the word "symbol"; they are not
symbols in the Peircean sense because a bit by itself, out of any
context, will not and cannot be interpreted as a sign.
HP: Suppose, in context of a Dicisign or a proposition, you ask me:
Is it true or false? I can give you a one-bit answer. Isn't that bit
some kind of sign?
Howard
"There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who know binary,
and those who don't." Don Knuth
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