"Edwina Taborsky" <tabor...@primus.ca>
wrote:
I think that's a key notion - the necessity for a triplet, which is an intellectual construct, to become a triad, a morphological construct.
The reason for this is that basic "permanent confrontation between entropy and negentropy, which would be constitutive of the very being of energy". This means that the semiosic triad and process is not a human, so to speak, intellectual exercise, but is a physico-chemical/biological reality - which we humans then intellectually analyze. - and can do so, mathematically as evidence of this natural reality.
Edwina
On Fri 23/10/20 9:32 AM , robert marty robert.mart...@gmail.com sent:
Thank you Edwina ...it seems to me that you encapsulate the concepts of dissipation/morcellization/regularity with the three universal categories which have no real existence since they result from triadic reduction, an operation of pure form on the space of the n-adic relations they allow to generate. So encapsulation makes the simple triplet a triad, which makes regularity appear as a necessity produced by the permanent confrontation between entropy and negentropy, which would be constitutive of the very being of energy. So could we then see in it yet another illustration of the role that mathematics can play, even at this level?RMHonorary Professor ; PhD Mathematics ; PhD PhilosophyLe jeu. 22 oct. 2020 à 16:08, Edwina Taborsky <tabor...@primus.ca> a écrit :A great paper.
My focus is, however, on WHY our universe operates within a triadic process and WHY there are three modal categories.
My simplistic answer to both is: the preservation of energy.
That is - if one posits that our universe is made up of energy - then, the agenda of the universe 'ought' to be its preservation. It first does this -[ as Peirce pointed out in 1.411-] without some regularity, that is - energy transforms rapidly into finite bits of matter. These 'bits' hold energy, so to speak. But the fact of dissipation, aka, Firstness, means that these finite bits would, in a nanosecond, dissolve into less complex forms of energy. The dissipation of energy would reduce the universe to nothing. How can we define this dissipation? That is - how is the domination of Firstness - prevented?
The easiest method is, of course, that action of Secondness, which simply moves energy into those closed units-of-matter. But again, as Peirce pointed out, without regularity, these 'bits' would rapidly dissipate back to - Firstness.
Therefore, we find the need for the third category for the organization of energy: Thirdness, which provides a regularity of habit, a continuity of form and behaviour by which those Bits-of-Matter can be organized. This introduction of Mind is the most powerful method of combating the ever-present actions of dissipation/Firstness.
But- we should acknowledge the necessity of Firstness. Without its 'attacks' on continuity [which attacks usually take place at the periphery of a system] - the system would freeze into a cement of habits. Firstness enables not only adaptive robustness but also, an increase in complexity and diversity of forms.
What about that triad? What is its function? If we posit a universe made up of 'bits of energy-as-matter', then, these bits presumably interact. If we have only a direct 'hit' between two 'bits-of-matter', then this mechanical process would enhance entropy. And again - we acknowledge the reality of Thirdness - which mediates such interactions and transforms energy exchange into information, which can be used, constructively, by both parties in the interaction.
Edwina
On Thu 22/10/20 6:21 AM , robert marty robert.mart...@gmail.com sent:Abstract
This article begins with a preamble that first examines the general problem of the production of mathematical models in the social sciences and humanities. This is not the first simplification we propose. Feedback has taught us that we needed to go even further to ensure that our initial proposals made more than 40 years ago are acceptable to the entire community working in the same field. The responsibility for this long delay lies mainly with the author, who proposes here to redeem himself by detailing to the extreme both his methodology and the simplest techniques he has found in order to allow critical access to this natural extension of Peirce's semiotics from the state in which he left it to us.
https://www.academia.edu/44347570/The_simplest_model_for_the_ten_classes_of_signs
Thank you for your comments and criticism,
Robert Marty
Honorary Professor ; PhD Mathematics ; PhD Philosophy
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