Dear Gary, John, lists - John wrote:
I think we have converged a lot, and I think the issues are much more clear. My nagging doubt at this point is that as a naturalist I want to see a continuity between biosemiotics and cognitive semiotics (if I can call it that). I agree. This is why I argue in the book that Peirce's non-linguistic, non-anthropocentric conception of propositions - Dicisigns - applies to biosemiotics as well. To me, this forms part of a naturalization of semiotics. But, simultaneously, a naturalization which takes generalities such as empirical universals as well as mathematics/logic as parts of nature. A more inclusive naturalism, if you will, than the one coming out of Quine's naturalization of epistemology. Best F
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