John, all,

It is necessary to distinguish non-psychological from anti-psychological and 
independence from exclusion.

It is impossible to make sense of Peirce's position if you start by assuming 
the Cartesian dualism that he rejected. 

Regards,

Jon

http://inquiryintoinquiry.com

> On Nov 19, 2015, at 2:23 AM, John Collier <colli...@ukzn.ac.za> wrote:
> 
> Lists,
>  
> At the end of the 19th Century there was a reaction against the idea that 
> logic was a human creation and depended on the mind. This view is called 
> psychologism. The founders of modern logic, including in particular Frege and 
> Peirce, were anti-psychologists who argued that logic is independent of human 
> psychology. I won’t give the arguments here, since they are readily available 
> (see, e.g., http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/psychologism/). Whether logic 
> is independent of thought depends on what you take thought to be. An idealist 
> like Peirce takes a very broad view of propositions (shared by Platonists 
> like Russell, and many rationalists in general) to the effect that thoughts 
> are out there in the world as well as in our heads. This view requires 
> further argument from the arguments against psychologism. A weaker position 
> is that propositions but not thoughts are out there in the world (early 
> Wittgenstein is an example – a view I share, though I don’t share his view 
> that true propositions = facts).
>  
> Personally I find that putting thoughts in the world independently of humans 
> requires a degree of rationalism that I cannot accept: that forms are 
> meaningful  independent of their existence (this is where I disagree with 
> Jerry, I think). In this case logic can apply independently of thought, just 
> as can mathematics, to the world. In other words, the world can be both 
> logical and mathematical. I go a bit further and argue that logic and 
> mathematics depend on the nature of the world, and that we must discover them 
> through hypothetical reasoning rather than a priori (for example whether 
> continuity exists, the infinite exists and similar). This allows a version of 
> non-psychologistic naturalism that is somewhat similar to what I take to be 
> Mill’s position, though he is often interpreted as a psychologist. So I don’t 
> see Jerry’s worry that there is a gap between the formal aspects of, say, 
> information theory and its manifestation as making sense. It seems to me that 
> this presupposes that the formal aspects can exist independently, involving 
> either a rationalism or an idealism or both that I cannot accept, as I find 
> it ontological otiose. This is my argument against Jerry’s objection. I also 
> deviate from Peirce here, I think, and certainly from my philosophical hero, 
> Bertrand Russell.
>  
> However my views may be, there is a clear antipsychologist position on logic 
> that is associated with the greatest logicians, and I think it very hasty to 
> adopt Stan’s classification of logic.
>  
> John Collier
> Professor Emeritus, UKZN
> http://web.ncf.ca/collier
>  
> From: Stanley N Salthe [mailto:ssal...@binghamton.edu] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 18 November 2015 10:34 PM
> To: biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee
> Cc: Ed Dellian; PEIRCE-L; Sergey Petoukhov; Robert E. Ulanowicz; Auletta 
> Gennaro; Hans-Ferdinand Angel; Rudiger Seitz
> Subject: [biosemiotics:8949] Re: Terms, Propositions, Arguments
>  
> Sung, all --
> Logic is a product of a human culture. The universe (as understood in 
> cosmology) is a logical product of that human culture.
> {everything {biology {primates {humans {culture {universe }}}}}}
>  
> STAN
>  
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Sungchul Ji <s...@rci.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> Ed,
>  
> Thanks for your response.
> You wrote :
>  
> "Logic" is a product of the human brain only. "The Universe" is not a product 
> of the human brain,        (111815-1)
> and therefore it is not logical."
>  
> I can't quite agree with (111815-1).  Instead I would assert that
>  
> "Logic may be a product of the Universe as is the human brain. Hence it is 
> not surprising                    (111815-2)
> that that the logical reasoning of the human mind agrees with what happens in 
> the Universe."
>  
> All the best.
>  
> Sung
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 8:56 AM, Ed Dellian <ed.dell...@t-online.de> wrote:
> Sung,
>  
> You say that the Universe is "by and large logical". This is not true. 
> "Logic" is a product of the human brain only. "The Universe" is not a product 
> of the human brain, and therefore it is not logical, and its language is not 
> the human mathematical logic of algebra. The rational language of the 
> Universe is Geometry (Plato, 400 BC, Galileo, 1623 AD). Geometry as the art 
> of measuring refers to everything "which is really there" and therefore has 
> its distinct measure. Mathematical logic, or the art of calculating, refers 
> to "what could be there" (cf. my 2012 essay "The language of Nature is not 
> Algebra", on my website www.neutonus-reformatus.com, entry nr. 40, 201). 
> Logic and algebra is an "anthropocentric" art rooted in the human brain only; 
> geometry is "cosmocentric" and refers to the reality and truth of Nature 
> (based on the reality and measurability of space and time) 
>  
> Ed.      
>  
> Von: sji.confor...@gmail.com [mailto:sji.confor...@gmail.com] Im Auftrag von 
> Sungchul Ji
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 18. November 2015 12:29
> An: PEIRCE-L
> Cc: biosemiotics; Sergey Petoukhov; Robert E. Ulanowicz; Ed Dellian; Auletta 
> Gennaro; Hans-Ferdinand Angel; Rudiger Seitz
> Betreff: Fwd: [PEIRCE-L] Terms, Propositions, Arguments
> 
> Hi,
>  
> A correction: 
>  
> Please replace "nucleotides, A, T, G, and C for DNA and RNA" in (4) with 
> "nucleotides, A, T, G, and C for DNA, and A,T, G and U for RNA".
>  
> Thanks.
>  
> Sung
>  
>  
>  
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Sungchul Ji <s...@rci.rutgers.edu>
> Date: Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 9:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Terms, Propositions, Arguments
> To: PEIRCE-L <peirce-l@list.iupui.edu>
> Cc: biosemiotics <biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee>, Sergey Petoukhov 
> <spetouk...@gmail.com>, Ed Dellian <ed.dell...@t-online.de>, "Robert E. 
> Ulanowicz" <u...@cbl.umces.edu>
> 
> 
> (The table below may be distorted beyond easy recognition.)
>  
> Franklin, Gary R, lists,
>  
> In connection with writing my manuscript on the cell language theory to be 
> published by Imperial College Press, I am toying with the ideas expressed in 
> Table 1 below. If anyone has any suggestions or comments, I would appreciate 
> hearing from you.
>  
> There are several points that need explanations:
>  
> (1) I coined three new words, 'cellese', 'humanese', 'cosmese', to facilitate 
> discussions.  I am assuming that 'cosmese' is synonymous with what we call 
> logic, since the Universe is by and large 'logical'.
>  
> (2)  I imported the concept of "double articulations" from linguistics to 
> biology in 1997 [1-6].  (I feel funny to list so many of my own references 
> here despite Franklin's recent criticism.  The only justification I have for 
> doing so is to assure the members of these lists that most of the statements 
> that I make on these posts are supported by my published research results, as 
> is also the case for many of the discussants on these lists.)
>  
> (3)  When I applied the concept of "double articulation" to cell biology, I 
> was logically led to invoke the concept of "third articulation" (see the 
> second row, Table 1)  in order to account for some of the cellular metabolism 
> and processes.  I then decided to export this concept back to humanese where 
> "double articulation" originated, leading to the distinction between 
> sentences and linguistic texts including simple syllogisms.  This extension 
> seems reasonable because we can then say that
>  
> 1) words denote  (first 6 of the 10 classes of the Pericean triadic signs 
> that I listed in my previous post)
>  
> 2) sentences decide or judge (Classes 7, 8 & 9 of Peircean signs)
>  
> 3) texts argue (the 10th class, i.e, argument symbolic legisign).
>  
>  
>  
> __________________________________________________________
> 
> Table 1.  The common structures of the languages at three levels --
>                 'cellese', 'humanese' and 'cosmese' [7].'
>  
> __________________________________________________________
>  
>   
>                        1st articulation     2nd articulation      '3rd 
> articulation'
> 
> __________________________________________________________
>  
> 'humanese'              words                    letters                    
> sentences
>                                     |                             |           
>                       |
>                                    V                            V             
>                   V
>                              sentences                words                  
> syllogisms/texts
> ___________________________________________________________
>  
> 'cellese'           1-D biopolymers           monomers          3-D 
> biopolymers
>                                       |                             |         
>                        |
>                                      V                            V           
>                     V
>                         3-D biopolymers      1-D biopolymers     chemical 
> waves [8]
>  
> ____________________________________________________________
> 
> 'cosmese'                 terms                          X                    
>    propositions
> (or logic ?)                    |                               |             
>                     |
>                                     V                              V          
>                      V
>                             propositions                  terms               
>       arguments
> _____________________________________________________________
>  
>  
> (4)  You will notice the appearance of x in the middle of the 4th row.  I was 
> led to postulate this entity based solely on the symmetry consideration with 
> respect to the other two rows: x must be there, and I am at  a loss what this 
> may be.  Does anyone on these lists know if Peirce discussed something 
> related to this ?  Can x be what Peirce called 9 groups of signs (i.e., 
> qualisign, sinsign, legisign, icon, index, symbol, rheme, dicisign, and 
> argument) ?  If so, these 9 groups of signs  may be akin to the monomers in 
> biology (i.e., 4 nucleotides, A, T, G, and C for DNA and RNA, and 20 amino 
> acids for proteins), and letters of the alphabets in human languages. This 
> may justify Peirce's division of signs into 9 groups and 10 classes, which I 
> referred to as "elementary signs" and "composite signs", respectively, in 
> [biosemiotics:46], which elicited oppositions from Franklin in his recent 
> post and Edwina in 2012.
>  
> (5)  If the above considerations are right in principle, we may conclude that 
> language is one of those "simple concepts applicable every subject" that 
> Peirce was talking about.  Another simple concept applicable to every subject 
> may be "waves", since humanese is mediated by sound waves, cellese by 
> electromagnetic, mechanical and chemical concentration waves, and cosmese by 
> electromagnetic, gravitational and probability waves.  
> These conclusions are in good agreement with the Petoukhov hypothesis that 
> organisms are akin to musical instruments [9, 10] and Pythagorian and Plato's 
> idea of Musica universalis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
> Musica_universalis; I want to thank Jerry Chandler for bringing this idea to 
> my attention recently).  
>  
> All the best.
>  
> Sung
>  
>  
> References:
>    [1] Ji, S. (1997). Isomorphism between cell and human languages: molecular 
> biological, bioinformatics and linguistic implications. BioSystems 44:17-39.
>    [2] Ji, S. (1997). A cell-linguistic analysis of apoptosis, Comments on 
> Toxicology 5(6):571-85.
>    [3] Ji, S. (1999).  The cell as the smallest DNA-based molecular computer. 
> BioSystem 52:123-133. 
>    [4] Ji, S. (1999).  The Linguistics of DNA: Words, Sentences, Grammar, 
> Phonetics, and Semantics. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 870: 411-417. 
>    [5] Ji, S. (2001). Isomorphism between Cell and Human Languages: Micro- 
> and  Macrosemiotics, in Semiotics 2000: “Sebeok’s Century”, S. Simpkins, J. 
> Deely,  (eds.), Legas, Ottawa, pp. 357-374.
>    [6]  Ji, S. (2002). Microsemiotics of DNA. Semiotica 138(1/4): 15-42.
>    [7] Ji, S. (2012).  The Wave-Particle Complementarity in Physics, B iolgy 
> and Philosophy. In: Molecular Theory of the Living Cell: Concepts, Molecular 
> Mechanisms, and Biomedical Applications.  Springer, New York.  PDF 
> retrievable from conformon.net under Publications > Book Chapters.  See Table 
> 2.13 on pp. 44-45. 
>    [8] Ji, S. (2012).  The Isomorphism between Cell and Human Languages: The 
> Cell Language Theory. ibid. PDF retrievable from conformon.net under 
> Publications > Book Chapters.  See Table 6.3 on p.166.  
>    [9]    Petoukhov, S. V. (2015) Music and the Modeling Approach to Genetic 
> Systems of Biological Resonances.  Extended Abstract, The 4th ISIS Summit, 
> Vienna, Austria, 2015.  http://sciforum.net/conference/70/paper/2812
>    [10]  Petoukhov, S. V. (2015)  The system-resonance approach in modeling 
> genetic structures.  BioSystems (in press,   
> http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/aip/03032647).
>    
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 3:40 AM, Franklin Ransom 
> <pragmaticist.lo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Gary F,
>  
> GF: In the paragraph at issue, Peirce is clearly defining two kinds of signs 
> as parts of other signs: “If a sign, B, only signifies characters that are 
> elements (or the whole) of the meaning of another sign, A, then B is said to 
> be a predicate (or essential part) of A. If a sign, A, only denotes real 
> objects that are a part or the whole of the objects denoted by another sign, 
> B, then A is said to be a subject (or substantial part) of B.” Do you not 
> agree that these are definitions of predicate and subject?
>  
> FR: No, I do agree that these are definitions of predicate and subject. But I 
> also note there is an ambiguity in the way it is stated, that permits the 
> possibility that a term may be such a sign that has a predicate or subject.
>  
> GF: Peirce then proceeds to define depth and breadth in terms of predicates 
> and subjects:
> “The totality of the predicates of a sign, and also the totality of the 
> characters it signifies, are indifferently each called its logical depth. … 
> The totality of the subjects, and also, indifferently, the totality of the 
> real objects of a sign is called the logical breadth.” Now, when you say that 
> “Peirce was deliberately including all signs, and not simply propositions”, 
> are you claiming that all signs have depth and breadth? According to Peirce’s 
> definition here, a sign can have depth only if it has predicates and 
> signifies characters. Do all signs do that? Likewise, in order to have 
> breadth, a sign must have subjects and real objects. Do all signs have those? 
> If not, how can you claim that the referent of the term “a sign” in those 
> definitions can be any sign at all? Peirce’s definitions specify that a sign 
> that has depth and breadth (and thus can convey information) must have 
> predicate(s) and subject(s). Does that apply to all kinds of sign?
>  
> FR: First of all, I would like to note that because the totality of the 
> predicates of a sign is identified with the totality of characters it 
> signifies, and is its logical depth, and precisely how a term's logical depth 
> is determined is by the totality of characters it signifies, this supports 
> the case I am making. Likewise in the case of the the totality of subjects.
>  
> I am not sure it is required that every sign have a predicate and a subject. 
> He says IF a sign, B, only signifies characters that are elements of the 
> meaning of another sign, A, then B is said to be a predicate (or essential 
> part). This doesn't necessarily mean that every sign must have a predicate. 
> Likewise in the case of the subject. 
>  
> Now, having said that, let's consider the possibility, as you suggest, that 
> there are signs that do not have real objects. This is different from saying 
> that a sign has no subject. A subject is supposed to be a sign (A) that 
> denotes the real objects the other sign (B) denotes. So let us separate those 
> into two different points. I think it may be too much to argue that a sign 
> has no real object, because this implies it has no dynamical object. Are you 
> comfortable with asserting that there are signs with no dynamical object? I 
> would like to hear about that idea, if you have something to say.
>  
> Going further along the same lines, let us in parallel fashion note that a 
> predicate is a sign (B) that signifies the characters that the other sign (A) 
> signifies. Do you claim that there can be a sign which signifies nothing? In 
> order that a sign be a sign, it must signify something about its object. This 
> signifying is typically characterized by Peirce as, well, characters that the 
> sign attributes to the (dynamical) object.
>  
> I think that every sign must signify something about some object. Not only 
> must it both signify something and be about an object, it must also have an 
> interpretant. Any interpretant, being determined by the sign to be so 
> determined to the object in the way the original sign is, must denote that 
> very same object, and signify it in some way related to how the original sign 
> signifies. That is, it must have, if not the whole, at least elements of the 
> meaning of the original sign. And yes, this applies to all signs. So far as I 
> can tell, this is simply tautology, given the definition of sign.
>  
> GF: I think you’re overlooking Peirce’s statement that signs fulfill that 
> purpose by being joined to other signs. 
>  
> FR: I don't think I overlooked that statement; in point of fact, that was why 
> I mentioned in bold print in my last post that no term has information 
> outside of the synthetic propositions in which it participates.
>  
> Also what he says in the Syllabus and elsewhere about how complex signs 
> involve simpler signs, which offers a much less convoluted explanation of how 
> all signs play their parts in approaching the ideal of the Absolute Truth.
>  
> FR: I'm not sure what the point is of referencing how complex signs involve 
> simpler signs; and if you don't mind, would you please be so kind as to offer 
> a page reference for me that makes the point?
>  
> In the “Nomenclature and Divisions of Triadic Relations” (1903) Peirce 
> defines a “sign” as “a representamen of which some interpretant is a 
> cognition of a mind.”
>  
> FR: I'm not sure what the point was of quoting the definition of a sign as "a 
> representamen of which some interpretant is a cognition of a mind."
>  
> Then in 1909 he writes that:
> “The mode of being of the composition of thought, which is always of the 
> nature of the attribution of a predicate to a subject, is the living 
> intelligence which is the creator of all intelligible reality, as well as of 
> the knowledge of such reality. It is the entelechy, or perfection of being” 
> (CP 6.341, 1909).
> What kind of sign joins a predicate to a subject? Do we really want to say 
> that all signs do that, or that “terms” do that?
>  
> FR: The kind of sign that joins a predicate to a subject is pretty clearly 
> the proposition. I have no argument with that. But observe that the sign that 
> is a predicate of another sign, does not require that it be attributed to 
> that other sign in order to be its predicate, according to the passage that 
> we are discussing; likewise for a subject. Moreover, just because a 
> proposition is the kind of sign that attributes a predicate to a subject, 
> that does not make it any less true that a term can have something predicated 
> of it, or that it can have subjects of which it is predicated (and thus have 
> subjects). A proposition simply makes explicit the process by which this 
> happens.
>  
> I want to make sure to state that I do not think propositions and terms are 
> the same thing. I have concerns about what he said in KS in comparison to 
> statements made elsewhere regarding the logical quantities and information, 
> and I am attempting to make sense of it all in a way that, well, makes sense. 
> I have to admit some lasting concern about what he has had to say about signs 
> and predicates and subjects. You have been arguing strenuously that by signs 
> he means propositions, but I would very much prefer to believe it did not 
> refer to propositions at all, because this would contradict what he said in 
> 1893, and I found that statement highly suggestive. At the same time, after 
> putting a lot of thought into this reply, I have to admit that I can't deny a 
> proposition must denote and signify, and consequently must have predicate and 
> subject in the sense in which they are discussed in the passage. In fact, it 
> is hard to see how any sign could have no object or signify nothing about the 
> object, in virtue of being a sign. I guess this just amounts to the 
> conclusion that yes, Peirce meant to apply the statements to every sign, 
> whatsoever.
>  
> -- Franklin
>  
> ---------------------------------------------------
>  
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 10:42 AM, <g...@gnusystems.ca> wrote:
> Franklin, my responses inserted below.
>  
> Gary f.
>  
> From: Franklin Ransom [mailto:pragmaticist.lo...@gmail.com] 
> Sent: 13-Nov-15 15:02
> To: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu 1 <peirce-l@list.iupui.edu>
> Subject: [PEIRCE-L] Terms, Propositions, Arguments
>  
> Gary F, list,
>  
> Seeing as how discussion has gotten far away from "Vol.2 of CP, on 
> Induction," I feel it is best to change the subject, and thus the thread, of 
> the discussion. Hopefully the subject is sufficiently vague.
>  
> I have re-read KS through. With respect to Peirce's use of the word "sign" 
> instead of "proposition" in the paragraph at issue, I still think that Peirce 
> was deliberately including all signs, and not simply propositions. 
> GF: In the paragraph at issue, Peirce is clearly defining two kinds of signs 
> as parts of other signs: “If a sign, B, only signifies characters that are 
> elements (or the whole) of the meaning of another sign, A, then B is said to 
> be a predicate (or essential part) of A. If a sign, A, only denotes real 
> objects that are a part or the whole of the objects denoted by another sign, 
> B, then A is said to be a subject (or substantial part) of B.” Do you not 
> agree that these are definitions of predicate and subject?
>  
> Peirce then proceeds to define depth and breadth in terms of predicates and 
> subjects:
> “The totality of the predicates of a sign, and also the totality of the 
> characters it signifies, are indifferently each called its logical depth. … 
> The totality of the subjects, and also, indifferently, the totality of the 
> real objects of a sign is called the logical breadth.” Now, when you say that 
> “Peirce was deliberately including all signs, and not simply propositions”, 
> are you claiming that all signs have depth and breadth? According to Peirce’s 
> definition here, a sign can have depth only if it has predicates and 
> signifies characters. Do all signs do that? Likewise, in order to have 
> breadth, a sign must have subjects and real objects. Do all signs have those? 
> If not, how can you claim that the referent of the term “a sign” in those 
> definitions can be any sign at all? Peirce’s definitions specify that a sign 
> that has depth and breadth (and thus can convey information) must have 
> predicate(s) and subject(s). Does that apply to all kinds of sign?
>  
> But I have a thought about what is going on in the text that may explain the 
> way in which he is discussing signs, though I suppose it might be somewhat 
> unorthodox. Consider that we have just been discussing cases where Peirce 
> remarks that propositions and arguments may be regarded as terms, and 
> alternatively that terms and propositions may be regarded as arguments. 
> Perhaps in KS, what we have is Peirce suggesting that terms and arguments may 
> be regarded as propositions.
>  
> In the case of arguments, Peirce makes the point explicit: "That a sign 
> cannot be an argument without being a proposition is shown by attempting to 
> form such an argument" (EP2, p.308).
>  
> In the case of terms, this requires a little argumentation. It is clear that 
> terms have logical quantity. In particular, natural classes like "man" have 
> informed logical quantity; or more simply, information. Although it is true 
> that Peirce says "[b]ut 'man' is never used alone, and would have no meaning 
> by itself" (ibid, p.309-310), it is also true that in ULCE, the information 
> of a term is determined by the totality of synthetic propositions in which 
> the term participates as either predicate or subject; its informed depth and 
> breadth is due to the cases in which the term is not used alone, but with 
> respect to other terms in propositions. In the case of being used as 
> predicate, it increases in informed breadth; in the case of subject, it 
> increases in informed depth. Note that when the term appears as a subject, 
> the predicate of the proposition is predicated of the term, and that when the 
> term appears as a predicate, it has the subject of the proposition as its 
> subject.
>  
> Now if we consider the term as a proposition, this would simply amount to 
> supposing its logical depth given as predicate and its logical breadth given 
> as subject in a proposition. So we could say of man, "All men are 
> such-and-such-and-such", and by this we would denote all real objects that 
> are men and all the characters that man signifies. This is not a very 
> practical thing to do, but it is theoretically possible. It also satisfies 
> what Peirce says in the passage when he defines predicate and subject with 
> respect to, not simply propositions, but signs in general.
>  
> That's the interpretation I'm suggesting, namely that terms can be regarded 
> as propositions. There are also some other points that are relevant to the 
> claim that Peirce means signs, and not simply propositions. Although Peirce 
> does admit that it is the proposition which is the main subject of the 
> scholium as a whole, the term "proposition" appears a couple of times before 
> the paragraph in question. Moreover, Peirce also goes on to explain rhemas 
> and arguments as well after the passage in question, and then comes to focus 
> on the idea of the symbol, which applies to all three. And, as I have 
> suggested, Peirce is showing how terms and arguments may be regarded as 
> propositions, So while his discussion of signs is focused around the idea of 
> proposition, what he says of propositions has consequences for our 
> understanding of signs in general, and so for terms and arguments. Although 
> "[w]hat we call a 'fact' is something having the structure of a proposition, 
> but supposed to be an element of the very universe itself," it is also true 
> that "[t]he purpose of every sign is to express 'fact,' and by being joined 
> to other signs, to approach as nearly as possible to determining an 
> interpretant which would be the perfect Truth, the absolute Truth, and as 
> such...would be the very Universe" (ibid, p.304). So here we see that fact is 
> focused on the idea of the proposition, but it has consequences for how we 
> should understand what all signs are up to, what the purpose of every 
> interpretant is, regardless of whether it is the interpretant of a 
> proposition or of another type of sign.
> GF: I think you’re overlooking Peirce’s statement that signs fulfill that 
> purpose by being joined to other signs. Also what he says in the Syllabus and 
> elsewhere about how complex signs involve simpler signs, which offers a much 
> less convoluted explanation of how all signs play their parts in approaching 
> the ideal of the Absolute Truth.
>  
> In the “Nomenclature and Divisions of Triadic Relations” (1903) Peirce 
> defines a “sign” as “a representamen of which some interpretant is a 
> cognition of a mind.” Then in 1909 he writes that:
> “The mode of being of the composition of thought, which is always of the 
> nature of the attribution of a predicate to a subject, is the living 
> intelligence which is the creator of all intelligible reality, as well as of 
> the knowledge of such reality. It is the entelechy, or perfection of being” 
> (CP 6.341, 1909).
> What kind of sign joins a predicate to a subject? Do we really want to say 
> that all signs do that, or that “terms” do that?
>  
> Then, at the end of the text when Peirce revisits the idea of judgment, we 
> find him saying the following: "The man is a symbol. Different men, so far as 
> they can have any ideas in common, are the same symbol. Judgment is the 
> determination of the man-symbol to have whatever interpretant the judged 
> proposition has." (ibid, p.324) Now I would suppose that the judgment is a 
> certain kind of proposition, but the man-symbol is not likely to be regarded 
> as being a proposition, nor an argument. It is a term, but we see in this 
> respect that it is like a proposition, because just as the judgment is a 
> determination of the man-symbol to have whatever interpretant the judgment 
> has, in turn "[a]ssertion is the determination of the man-symbol to 
> determining the interpreter, so far as he is interpreter, in the same way" 
> (ibid). That is, the man-symbol now acts like a proposition in communicating 
> the interpretant of the judged proposition to the interpreter, though the 
> man-symbol is not properly a proposition but a term; but despite normally 
> being considered a term, in this case it expresses a fact, which is properly 
> what a proposition does.
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