Jerry -I’m not talking about ‘chemical representations’ or ‘symbols’ of chemical molecules. And I don’t see why Peirce’s semiotic framework can’t apply to ‘chemical entities’. After all - the semiotic process DOES apply to ‘matter’, and to my knowledge, ‘matter’ is a ‘chemical entity’.
Second - I’ve no idea what ‘ontological status within natural philosophy’ means. Edwina Sent from my iPad > On Jul 15, 2019, at 2:29 PM, Jerry LR Chandler <[email protected]> > wrote: > > List: > >> On Jul 15, 2019, at 12:52 PM, Edwina Taborsky <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>>> This analytic framework, I suggest, can be used to describe and analyze >>>> all complex adaptive systems. For one example - take speciation of the >>>> progressive movement to diversity and complexity -- for example, plant >>>> speciation where plants evolve barriers to genetic exchange between >>>> previously interbreeding populations. That is, informational stimuli from >>>> such external agents as changes in an external pollinator and/or habitat >>>> [[a semiosic interaction] promotes adaptive divergence in local areas. >>>> That is, 'small networks' or local semiosic networks' can promote rapid >>>> adaptive and evolutionary changes that are confined to a local area. >>>> >>>> > > Unfortunately, CSP’s analytical framework, while he viewed it from a chemical > bedrock perspective, does not represent chemical entities. > > The necessities for chemical representations include symbols for the identity > of each atomic number and the associated electrical graphs representing > part-whole bindings to create the unity of chemical sentence. In addition, > one of the bedrocks of modern chemical logic is the requirement that a > sentence describing the facts of the synthesis of molecules from atoms > associate copulative conjunctions with emergent predicates. > > Of course, the claim that CSP’s framework represents "complex adaptive > systems" is unchallenged because this claim is merely philosophical musings, > lacking any ontological status within natural philosophy. > > JMHO. > > Cheers > Jerry > > >
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