Stephen, List > On Feb 1, 2018, at 9:29 AM, Stephen C. Rose <stever...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Semiotics seems to me almost a meta thing.
Why? Are you really considering the vast range of signs that are used by various disciplines that contribute to the non-monotonic course of lives? > A means of making academic what would be clear if not meta-ed up with > interpretive elaboration and complexity. Only the monotonic routines of lives are sometimes clear. In particular, the vast scales of nature, from the infinitesimally small to the universe as a whole, demand interpretive evaluations of signs. > We live day by day and our time is necessarily limited. > We encounter things and think about them and then act or express. If one > wants to analyze this process fine but that is secondary to the actual > process. How is this possible for anyone who chooses a non-mechanical life of the mind? Cheers Jerry
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