MB:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/18534 EVD:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/18540
Mike, Val, List, Diagrams and figures, like all signs, can be useful in communicating their intended interpretant signs and thus in coordinating attention to their intended objects, but only in communities of interpretation that comprehend their conventions of interpretation. Conventions of interpretation are, by comparison, far more difficult to communicate. So one of the prerequisites to the possibility of communication in this area would be to ask ourselves what are the conventions of interpretation enabling this species of diagrams and figures. I will get back to that after a 2ndness or 3rdness of coffee ... Cheers, Jon On 3/22/2016 6:20 PM, E Valentine Daniel wrote:
Hello Mike, Edwina, Jerry, fellow-archivists among the P-Listers: I notice that Mike's table of threes was accompanied by a diagrammatic representation of the sign (with its three constitutive correlates) by a space-enclosing equilateral triangle. Peirce never used this particular diagrammatic representation but used instead the diagram of a three prongs converging/diverging in/from a point to represent the triadic sign. In addition to being more effective (and truer-to-Peirce) representation, not only of the sign qua sign but also as the best opening gambit for representing semiosis itself, some contributors to that deeply archived conversation provided the list with many other logical and philosophical reasons and arguments in favor of the three-pronged representation of the signs over the triangular representation of same. Is there anyone on the list who, per chance, either saved that particular discussion or can lead me to that string of yester-year? Besides being personally grateful to such a lead I also think that it would shed critical light of the table provided by Mike. Thank you. val daniel E. Valentine Daniel Professor of Anthropology Columbia University 1200 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10027 (212) 854-7764 e...@columbia.edu
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