Helmut, List,
JFS: I agree with Gary that "there are no perfect choices when it comes to naming such things" and we should "weed out the choices most likely to cause confusion." HR: But if we weed out too many terms, we may not be able to talk anymore! Can we not instead "count on mathematicians" to tell us, how we should define and use "possibility" and "relation"? The objection to the word 'possibility' was that it suggests a kind of Secondnesss, since it would involve a dyadic relation to something else. My proposed revision to ADT's slide is to bring back Peirce's word 'diagram', which is one of his favorite terms. Since every diagram is an icon, it belongs to the first member of (icon, index, symbol). It's true that a diagram may also be considered as a possibility, but by itself, it's a first. The aspect of Secondness only occurs after somebody deliberately chooses it as a description of something else. Instead of the new terms that ADT proposed, I said that his slide 25 could be stated more clearly and simply by bringing back the word 'diagram'. See below for ADT's original slide 25. After that is my revised version of slide 25. And just now, I thought of an even simpler version of ADT's last sentence. See my new version at the bottom. John
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