Dan, Edwina, List,

 

I agree with Dan and Edwina with an however in favor of work on the semiotic 
engine and its make up in the technical terms that shy off the general public.

 

Since I started analyzing design processes of artist in the late 80’íes I tried 
to combine an empirical bend with an interest of modelling the situation 
graphically in technical semiotical terms. The general scheme Dan and Edwina 
point to (and as I understand it in my own undoubtedly very personal way, which 
itself evolves along the way) functioning as the hard core of the research 
program.  I shifted from the production of objects made in arts to personal 
development and from there to interactions. Resulting in the application of a 
semiotically grounded method for conflict resolving in an educational setting, 
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-642-55355-4_3.pdf   (it 
is of wider use, I extended the model and used it in a commercial domain).

 

However: This I could only do because I always tried to model semiosis in 
semiotic terms. And, because others on this list, and elsewhere (Sarbo, 
Farkas), were trying to come to grips with the technical side of semiotics. 

For example, everybody reading the Springer Quality of service text will see 
that I am inspired by Gary R’s Trikonic, which I class as theoretical.  Without 
that work I would never have imagined to try to incorporate it in my 
application. It proved gold because it enables me to have participants in my 
method explicate their position in such a way that contestants in a conflict 
can compare their differences in a systematic way. I leave out the valuable 
influence of many others on this list. 

 

It must be an interplay between both interests. It is also important to try to 
model the process of interpretation in semiotic terms for its own sake.  The 
key to that in my take is showing how the sign aspects are related to the 
interpretants, Peirce distinguishes, when a sign is inscribed in a sheet in its 
actual state. In that respect he left an interesting, still incomplete and as 
to its constituent pieces debated puzzle.

 

But of course, in the end, it must be the fruit of application that proves the 
worth of the tree.

 

Best Auke

 

 

 

Van: Dan Everett <danleveret...@gmail.com> 
Verzonden: zaterdag 30 maart 2019 14:55
Aan: tabor...@primus.ca
CC: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu
Onderwerp: Re: [PEIRCE-L] The pragmatics of Peirce

 

I agree with Edwina . Peirce himself left strong indications that some of his 
finer terminological distinctions were likely to be unimportant for research 
purposes, which was his main concern. 

 

Always the point was to use his ideas to do empirical work.

 

The kind of article that Edwina links to is a beautiful example of the kind of 
thing that would have really interested Peirce. 

 

I think of Peircean terminology as a beanstalk he planted. It grew far too 
large in many ways. But the science, the math, the logic, these are the things 
of true lasting importance. 

 

Dan 

Sent from my iPad


On Mar 30, 2019, at 9:45 AM, Edwina Taborsky < <mailto:tabor...@primus.ca> 
tabor...@primus.ca> wrote:

In my view, the basis of Peirce is not which term is to be used when and where 
- although I acknowledge that such a descriptive outline can be fascinating for 
some - but my view is that Peirce is really 'all about pragmatics'; i.e., the 
powerful functionality of his analytic framework when used in examining and 
explaining our real world, its operation and our interactions with that world. 
This analytic framework - which functions regardless of the terms used - is, to 
me, 'the basic Peirce' - and can be of great insight in many disciplines.

 Here is an example. My minimal computer skills didn't allow me to copy more 
than once - so, I've left out the vital title and authors. It's in the online 
journal Entropy. The link below should get anyone interested to the site. My 
point is NOT to open discussion on the actual article - but to show how the 
Peircean analytic framework, which to me, consists of that dynamic triad 
[O-R-I] with its subsets and the powerful three categories -  is the basic 
pragmatic infrastructure of our entire world. 

The article below is about information dynamics - and - note the terms of 
'majority-logic decoding' [another term for 3ns???], and 'single unit 
transformations' [2ns???]...and entropy [1ns??] ….And non-equilibrium  dynamics 
[the triadic semiosic process??]

""We investigate the performance of majority-logic decoding in both reversible 
and finite-time information erasure processes performed on macroscopic bits 
that contain N microscopic binary units. While we show that for reversible 
erasure protocols single-unit transformations are more efficient than 
majority-logic decoding, the latter is found to offer several benefits for 
finite-time erasure processes: Both the minimal erasure duration for a given 
erasure and the minimal erasure error for a given erasure duration are reduced, 
if compared to a single unit. Remarkably, the majority-logic decoding is also 
more efficient in both the small-erasure error and fast-erasure region. These 
benefits are also preserved under the optimal erasure protocol that minimizes 
the dissipated heat. Our work therefore shows that majority-logic decoding can 
lift the precision-speed-efficiency trade-off in information erasure processes. 
 <https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/3/284/htm> View Full-Text 

Keywords: finite-time information erasure; majority-logic decoding; 
nonequilibrium thermodynamics  
<https://www.mdpi.com/search?q=finite-time%20information%20erasure> finite-time 
information erasure;  <https://www.mdpi.com/search?q=majority-logic%20decoding> 
majority-logic decoding;  
<https://www.mdpi.com/search?q=nonequilibrium%20thermodynamics> nonequilibrium 
thermodynamics 

 

Edwina

 


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