BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Jerry - good point. I suppose the 'pre' somehow moves the situation out of an 'actuallity' and into some kind of amorphous pre-actuality.
To say 'destinate' implies, possibly, an actual agent making the decision to 'move ahead'; while 'predestinate' implies an immaterial agency making such a decision.... Edwina On Tue 19/05/20 2:40 PM , Jerry Rhee jerryr...@gmail.com sent: Dear Edwina, list, What is the significance of ‘pre-‘ in ‘predestinate opinion’? I’ve noticed not only you but others also, make this subtle move, as if there is no significance- that it can be explained away as a habitual hiccup. I mean, is it like the difference between presupposition and supposition, preamble and amble or precognition and cognition? Best, Jerry R On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 11:49 AM Edwina Taborsky wrote: Jon - yes, if I understand you correctly - then, yes, semiosis generates regulative principles but as to whether these are 'abductive hopes' - hmm. I agree with the 'abductive' - but- does the Universe actually 'hope'? I think I'd prefer the term ' Will', with Will understood only as the Will-to-Generate the semiosic triad. Edwina On Tue 19/05/20 12:25 PM , Jon Awbrey jawb...@att.net [2] sent: Edwina, All ... In the many, many discussions we've had along these lines over the last couple of decades I think it's most commonly been understood that such convergence theses amount to regulative principles, in effect falling into the category of abductive hopes. Regards, Jon On 5/19/2020 8:09 AM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: > > > Robert, Gary F, list - with regard to concerns about the concept of > a 'predestination' identity of something, i.e., the notion of a > 'final truth' about this 'thing' - I question whether such an agenda > is the 'nature of Peircean semiosis'. > > Whether one assumes that truth is a fact or an ideal - both > assumptions include the view that 'truth' exists about this 'thing'. > Now, in some instances of semiosis, we can indeed accept that there > is a truth vs a non-truth. For example, in the identity of a poison; > in the factual nature of an historical event. > > But surely this is not definitive of the full nature of Peircean > semiosis. Did he spend all his years and work merely writing that 'if > you or a group work hard enough - you'll find out the truth of whether > X is a poison or the truth of what happened'.... > > This notion of an almost predestined reality of a 'thing'. which can > never change...seems to me to function only within pure Thirdness. It > ignores the brute accidents and changes of Secondness and totally > ignores the chance novelties introduced by Firstness. That is, it > ignores evolution and adaptation and novelty. > > I consider that - apart from these factual situations of 'either-or' > [is it a poison or not; did this event occur or not] ….that > Peircean semiosis rejects a predestined Truth. Indeed, with the power > of Secondness and Firstness - Peircean semiosis rejects predestination > of any kind and sets up the world as complex, interactive, dynamic and > open to pure novelty, There is no 'final truth'. > > Edwina > Links: ------ [1] http://webmail.primus.ca/javascript:top.opencompose(\'tabor...@primus.ca\',\'\',\'\',\'\') [2] http://webmail.primus.ca/javascript:top.opencompose(\'jawb...@att.net\',\'\',\'\',\'\')
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