Gary R, List

1] I think you are misunderstanding the nature of interpretation as a semiosic 
process. I am absolutely not talking about paraphrases.

Within the semiosic process - and I suggest that Peirce claims that all our 
interactions are semiosic, then, it is a fact that all interactions- with the 
world, with texts, etc, are ‘interpretive’ .   This term of ‘interpretive’ is 
not to be understood in the common usage sense of ‘making up a conclusion’ [ as 
can be found in conclusions via tenacity, authority and a priori] or rewriting 
a text. - but in the very real scientific sense that, one gathers data, 
analyzes it within a hypothesis..and comes to a conclusion. This conclusion is 
an interpretation ..of the data.  Reading a text and coming to a conclusion- is 
an interpretation of the text. 

I note that Peirce’s use of the term ‘interpretant’ only gives weight to my 
comment.  My point is that the semiosic process, as a triad, means that one 
does NOT get a direct dyadic knowledge of the data/text, but, does so ONLY via 
one’s own mediating hypothesis [ aka the Representamen/Sign]. 

Therefore- my understanding of this method of interacting with the world - 
means that all our interactions, except the most brutal, are triadic, and thus, 
necessarily,  result in having passed through our own Repesentamen 
mediation…This means - we ‘interpret the world. All of us do this; 
..because..we are semiotic. 

I am not talking about paraphrases of Peirce - which have nothing to do with 
this triad… I am talking about the conclusions we come to, each one of us, from 
reading any text. Because - our interactions with that text -are triadic.  
Therefore - quoting texts and making comments on that text - are 
‘interpretations’ of that text. 

2] As for the  concept of ’three objects’ - I clearly said, that within the 
semiosic process, there are only TWO objects: the Dynamic and the Immediate.  I 
gave specific references. But, I also suggest that Peirce also referred to a 
third object, which is outside of one’s own semiotic interaction; namely, the 
Real Object - and I gave several quotations that referred to the real object - 
which he clearly said was a ‘real object outside of our actions . 

3] With regard to JAS’s view of the Dynamic Object and the Universe - I remain 
perplexed. He states that the Universe ‘is a sign’ - and that the Dynamic 
Object is external to the Universe.  This, to me, suggests several things; that 
JAS considers
- 1 -  the Universe is a sign and as only the mediative relation of the triad.. 
Is this found in Peirce?
-  2 - that the universe is finite; ie, it has spatial and even temporal 
boundaries! This must be, because- JAS claims that the Dynamic Object is 
external to the Universe. Is such a view found in Peirce?
- 3 - if the Universe is a sign and only a sign [ with the DO external to 
it]..doesn’t this also mean that the Dynamic Interpretant of the Universe is 
also external to the Universe? Is this view found in Peirce? 

Edwina 





> On Sep 8, 2024, at 8:34 PM, Gary Richmond <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Edwina, List,
> 
> As I see it, Jon often paraphrases something Peirce wrote (or offers a  
> comment which functions somewhat like a paraphrase) and then gives an exact 
> quotation that supports that paraphrase. If you don't agree with his 
> paraphrase or restatement, not only can you again check Peirce's words in the 
> quotation offered then and there, but, if that doesn't convince you, you can 
> look for that quotation within the context in which it appeared. And you can 
> even look for other quotations by Peirce which take up the matter to compare 
> with the original quote.
> 
> (This is not to say that at places Peirce doesn't seemingly contradict 
> himself or his views on a matter, or that his views haven't changed, often, 
> as I see it, evolved -- but that is another subject altogether.)
> 
> What Jon does is not the same as "interpretation," so that anyone who thinks 
> the paraphrase, etc. does not follow from the quotation, can check it and 
> argue that Jon -- or anyone who occasionally takes this approach, as I most 
> certainly sometimes do -- has not paraphrased the quotation properly and, so, 
> has distorted its meaning: has not understood it correctly.
> 
> Take this example from Jon's post where I said that his views were 
> 'definitive' on the semeiotic matters under consideration, but 'definitive' 
> only in the sense of mirroring Peirce's own views as clearly stated in the 
> quotation.
> 
> JAS: As I observed before, Peirce also never states nor implies that a sign 
> has three objects. The key to understanding his different references to 
> objects in CP 8.314 (EP 2:498, 1909 Mar 14) is in its very first sentence.
> 
> CSP: We must distinguish between the Immediate Object,--i.e. the Object as 
> represented in the sign,--and the Real (no, because perhaps the Object is 
> altogether fictive, I must choose a different term, therefore), say rather 
> the Dynamical Object, which, from the nature of things, the Sign cannot 
> express, which it can only indicate and leave the interpreter to find out by 
> collateral experience.
> 
> The question here is: how many objects of a sign does Peirce distinguish in 
> explicating his semeiotic? This quotation says only two (and not three). And 
> the truth is that Jon or I, or any interested scholar could find and quote 
> many other passages where Peirce says the equivalent thing. So, in this 
> matter as in myriad others regarding how Peirce himself saw something -- and 
> said so numerous times in various ways, but always arriving at the same view 
> --n o "interpretation" is required or, really, needed. In such matters I 
> always turn to Peirce's own words and not to some 'interpretation' by you, 
> Jon, me, or anyone. 
> 
> Of course, that doesn't mean that I always agree with one or another of 
> Peirce's views, only that I can be reasonably certain that that is what he 
> himself thought and wrote. A good portion, perhaps even the most of Jon's 
> work is to 'get at' what Peirce himself said. Peirce repeatedly said that the 
> Sign had two Objects, not three. I don't see how the latter could even be 
> properly called an 'interpretation'. And it is patently false.
> 
> Jon wrote earlier in this thread:
> 
> I do not ascribe my beliefs to Peirce, I scrupulously quote his own 
> statements.
> 
> It is standard practice to put any words added within a quotation in square 
> brackets, which signals that they are not in the original text.
> 
> And I have no hesitation in saying from what I've read of Jon's work that 
> this is true as much for speculative grammar -- and semeiotic generally -- as 
> for  cosmology, synechism, etc. Please try to offer a counter-example to 
> prove me wrong. (However, this is not to suggest that he hasn't done original 
> work in semeiotic and metaphysics, for example, but only that when the 
> thinking is his own -- even when springboarding from some Peircean idea or 
> another -- that he makes that clear.)
> 
> So, to conclude this single thought regarding your rather superheated 
> response to me, Edwina: It is clear to anyone who reads Jon's posts or his 
> papers (except, apparently you) that he does not ascribe his own views to 
> Peirce but, rather expounds Peirce's own views by offering quotations from 
> Peirce's work (and, having just glanced at Jeff's excellent post, I would 
> tend to agree with Jeff that there are questions regarding, for example, the 
> weight one should put on Peirce's personal views as expressed in, for 
> example, personal letters as opposed to his more formal writings).   
> 
> Having read myriad posts and more than a few papers by both you and Jon over 
> many years, I would say that it appears to me that you are committing the 
> very error of scholarship which you accuse Jon of, namely, that of ascribing 
> your views to Peirce. Further, you seem to be saying that all 
> 'interpretations' are 'just that' --interpretations. That may well be. But be 
> that as it may, when the question is a matter of what Peirce actually said 
> (that is, wrote and thought), that is simply not true. For example, it is not 
> true that Peirce wrote or thought that the Sign had three Objects: that's at 
> best a misinterpretation if ever there was one. Or, if I'm wrong about this, 
> offer a quotation or two from his work that holds that there are three 
> Objects.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Gary R
> 
> On Sun, Sep 8, 2024 at 10:46 AM Edwina Taborsky <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Gary R, List
>> 
>> I’m not sure of the point of your post which seems to be that you support 
>> JAS’s posts [without argumentation]  as definitive and correct replications 
>> of Peirce’s views. I haven’t seen anyone else post either in favour of or 
>> rejecting JAS’s views - ie - that HIS views are also exactly those of 
>> Peirce. Is it the case that all others who post to this list are also 
>> correct - or are they incorrect? 
>> 
>> You write:  "You and I may argue that there are, within Peirce's trichotomic 
>> semeiotic and cosmology, passages and argumentations, etc. that support 
>> cosmological and religious views (perhaps even non-religious and scientific 
>> views and interpretations) far different from Peirce’s.”
>> 
>> I disagree - the passages and arguments that Peirce writes are not “far 
>> different from Peirce’s’! Peirce wrote them!!
>> 
>> You also write that ‘Jon is prone to supporting Peirce’s views with 
>> incontovertible text”! Well- me too! Same with others! But what you are 
>> ignoring is that no-one is iconic to Peirce’s texts! Each person who reads 
>> Peirce’s texts is interpreting it - and it is not up to any one of us to 
>> declare: Aha - that person is exactly repeating, incontrovertibly,  what 
>> Peirce meant!. That is for the community of scholars - over time. I don’t 
>> think that you alone can declare that his view is ’the truth of what Peirce 
>> saw’ while….others..are not doing so. 
>> 
>> And I disagree with JAS. I disagree that, for instance, he sees the universe 
>> as ‘a sign’ [ ONLY the mediate process and only ONE?]…and inserts God as the 
>> outside-the-universe Dynamic Object of determination.  Peirce actually wrote
>> 
>> “The entire universe - not merely the universe of existents, but all that 
>> wider universe, embracing the universe of existents as a part, the universe 
>> which we are all accustomed to refer to as ’the truth’- that all this 
>> universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs”.
>> I repeat:   that the universe is ‘composed exclusively of signs’. [5.488f. 
>> Note; signs - is plural. ]. 
>> 
>> So- this is a Quote directly from Peirce. It HAS to be interpreted - by 
>> anyone who reads it, since any one of us is NOT Peirce but is engaged, 
>> ourselves, in a semiotic interaction with the text - and as a triadic 
>> semiosic interaction, this means that the result is AN INTERPRETATION of the 
>> text. Is this interpretation iconic, indexical, symbolic? 
>> 
>> So- does this text mean what JAS interprets - as only the mediate relation 
>> and only one? And did Peirce mean by these plural signs the triad or only 
>> the mediate relation??? Just because JAS posts his interpretation of a text 
>> does not automatically mean that he, alone, has direct and Truthful access 
>> to ‘how Peirce saw things’.   I - and others - have, over this list, 
>> rejected such a conclusion. 
>> 
>> As for using non-Peircean terminology to interpret Peirce’s arguments - as 
>> Peirce wrote, “How concepts are named makes little difference’ [4.4]- and I 
>> am puzzled by JAS’s shock when I use such terms as ‘information’, data, 
>> nodes….I feel as if I should , when writing, provide brandy to calm the 
>> nerves of shocked readers who tell me that ‘Peirce never used such words!!’. 
>>   Again - none of us has the ‘hubris’ to feel that we alone have direct and 
>> truthful access to Peirce’s meaning. .We are, each of us, operating within a 
>> semiotic process and that means - we interpret Peirce’s text. 
>> 
>> All that can be done, in my view, is that we can discuss our different 
>> views; support them with text AND analysis - and leave it at that. I don’t 
>> think that anyone should then decide - ah- X person is ‘more truthful to 
>> Peirce’ than Y person. I don’t think the small number of postings on this 
>> list has the power to do that. The community of scholars has to be broader 
>> and over a longer time. 
>> 
>> Edwina
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Sep 8, 2024, at 1:35 AM, Gary Richmond <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Edwina, Jon, List,
>>>  
>>> While Jon and I have had serious disagreements on many topics over the 
>>> years, none more so than in our discussions of religious metaphysics (and 
>>> especially of late, of religious beliefs which, as I see it, are 
>>> problematic when they are exclusionary; but Jon never discusses these on 
>>> List), it is my very measured opinion that he is quite correct in his 
>>> analysis and conclusions (which are not mere idiosyncratic interpretations) 
>>> of Peirce's views regarding synechism, the categories, 
>>> early/proto-cosmology, and his (Peirce's) argument regarding God as Ens 
>>> Necessarium. 
>>> 
>>> You and I, Edwina, most certainly do disagree with some of those views of 
>>> Peirce. Still, Jon has well supported his argumentation that these are 
>>> indeed Peirce's views. He has shown this, not rather definitively, but 
>>> quite definitively with more than ample textual support. Truth is, that Jon 
>>> himself doesn't agree with all of Peirce's cosmological-religious views (of 
>>> course with the major exception of his irrefutable theism). 
>>> 
>>> One might argue, as I have occasionally done, that theism was the only real 
>>> option for Peirce in the interest of bringing his contemporaries to a sense 
>>> that the universe was not 'mechanical', nothing-but-accident, etc., and 
>>> that to contribute scientifically to a sense that the universe is alive 
>>> with meaning was more than a desideratum, but a (quasi-?) scientific truth 
>>> that it was his moral duty to support and promote. Promoting a religious 
>>> sense of the cosmos was for Peirce a desideratum.
>>> 
>>> As for my religious beliefs, they are most certainly currently in flux as 
>>> regards Christianity. For me, instructed first in the Episcopal Church, 
>>> that one ought see Christ (God) in the person facing you, your neighbor, 
>>> your brother or sister, Jon's rejection of my admittedly unorthodox 
>>> understanding of Christianity, was profoundly unsettling, especially as I 
>>> saw Peirce himself as standing far apart from the traditional and orthodox 
>>> Christian views. 
>>> 
>>> But all that discussion was off-List, and Jon has not discussed his 
>>> orthodox Lutheran views in this forum at all nor ever. That I now bring 
>>> this up is entirely my doing, and not his. Does Jon's research and 
>>> philosophical thinking mean to support his theistic views? Well, perhaps. 
>>> But the truth is, that there is much in Peirce to support, at very least, 
>>> theism.
>>> 
>>> You and I may argue that there are, within Peirce's trichotomic semeiotic 
>>> and cosmology, passages and argumentations, etc. that support cosmological 
>>> and religious views (perhaps even non-religious and scientific views and 
>>> interpretations) far different from Peirce's. Jon has not denied that there 
>>> is that in Peirce's writing. So, there's disagreement to go all around! As 
>>> long as there is mutual respect, I'd say that that's a good thing!
>>> 
>>> So, while Jon is prone to supporting Peirce's views with incontrovertible 
>>> textual support, and while this seems to irritate some members of this 
>>> forum (occasionally me, included), his having done so regarding many facets 
>>> of Peirce's philosophy has been of really inestimable value for those who 
>>> are truly interested in how Peirce saw things, whether one agrees with 
>>> Peirce or not. Jon has made it clear that that is all that he's attempting 
>>> to do. And, I have always -- and always will -- support his right to do 
>>> that on this forum.
>>> 
>>> Gary R
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> 
>>> Gary R
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Sep 7, 2024 at 10:48 PM Edwina Taborsky <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> List, JAS 
>>>> 
>>>> 1] Not everyone knows ’standard practice’ ; therefore, I consider it 
>>>> courteous to let the ignorant  and uneducated reader  of your post know 
>>>> that it is YOU who have inserted the word… and even, to further explain 
>>>> WHY. Why would you add such a word [‘merely] without explaining your 
>>>> intention? 
>>>> 
>>>> 2] So what if Peirce doesn’t use the words of ‘information sites where 
>>>> information is processed’. Is it heretical to explain his  concepts using 
>>>> different terms?? Are you suggesting that this action of information 
>>>> processing doesn’t happen?  
>>>> 
>>>> What do you think  analysis actually does? Just quote texts without 
>>>> examination of their meaning? What’s the point of that? The function of 
>>>> analysis is to understand the texts - and usually, this means explaining 
>>>> them in other ways..- multiple ways - using different terms and examples - 
>>>>  and in different disciplines. Just robotically repeating the terms is not 
>>>> an analysis. 
>>>> 
>>>> 23 I have outlined Peirce’s analytic process - where as he pointed out in 
>>>> his reference to the semiotic process in his determining the weather 
>>>> [8.314] - he does indeed refer to ’the Object as expressed, is the weather 
>>>> at that time’ - and is quite different from the Dynamic Object. He also 
>>>> frequently refers to the Real Object - which is outside of the semiotic 
>>>> process.   So- despite your claim - Peirce himself does often refer to an 
>>>> object outside of the semiosic process.
>>>> 
>>>> 3] WITHIN the semiosic process,  in its basic format,  it is an 
>>>> irreducible triad of Object-Representamen/Sign- Interpretant…and in its 
>>>> more detailed format: …the full semiosic process is: Dynamic Object- 
>>>> ImmediateObject - Representamen/Sign - Immediate Interpretant- Dynamic 
>>>> Interpretant-Final Interpretant.
>>>> 
>>>> I note again that the Real Object is outside of the semiosic process - but 
>>>> - it exists. 
>>>> 
>>>> 4]The above irreducible format of Object-Representamen/Sign-Interpretant 
>>>> is a key reason why I also reject your claim that the Dynamic Object is 
>>>> outside of the ’sign’. You stated that “every [dynamical] object stands 
>>>> outside of every sign that it determines . Therefore, if the entire 
>>>> universe is one immense sign, then its ‘[dynamical] object must 
>>>> nevertheless be external to it, independent of it, and unaffected by it”.
>>>> 
>>>> I disagree with the above - because NONE of the three correlates of the 
>>>> semiotic triad and NONE of the six correlates of the semiosic process 
>>>> stand alone and independently . There is no such thing as a singular 
>>>> sign/representamen on its own. No such thing as a Dynamic Object on its 
>>>> own - independent of the other correlates. Peirce's outline of the 
>>>> semiosic process is that the Sign is a TRIAD; and is irreducible. [See for 
>>>> example, 1.480..where “representation necessarily involves a genuine 
>>>> triad. For it involves a sign, or representamen, of some kind, outward or 
>>>> inward mediating between an object and an interpreting thought” . And all 
>>>> Peirce’s definitions off the sign refer to its triadic nature..eg, “A 
>>>> representamen, or sign is anything [ not necessarily real] which stands at 
>>>> once in a relation of correspondence to a second third, its object and to 
>>>> another possible representamen, its interpretant….” 1901. R 1147. . 
>>>> 
>>>> Are you really saying that the Universe is ONLY the mediate relation [S/R] 
>>>> in the triad? Is ONLY the middle term of the triad of O-S-I?? And that the 
>>>> Dynamic Object, which Peirce himself defines as “the reality which by some 
>>>> means contrives to determine the Sign to its Representation” 4.536…”the 
>>>> dynamical object does not mean something out of the mind. It means 
>>>> something forced upon the mind in perception" SS 197. That is - the 
>>>> Dynamic Object is already taking part in the semiotic triadic process of 
>>>> determining meaning.  Therefore - it is not, in my understanding,  
>>>> “standing outside of every sign that it determines’. The Dynamic Object, 
>>>> in my understanding, functions only within the semiosic process. 
>>>> 
>>>> And the same with the mediative term, the Representamen/Sign- it functions 
>>>> only within a triadic process. I simply cannot understand a universe 
>>>> understood as ONLY the singular mediative term…without the correlates of 
>>>> the Object and Interpretant - and don’t see how or why you break up the 
>>>> triad into independent parts.. 
>>>> 
>>>> Edwina
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Sep 7, 2024, at 8:39 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt <[email protected] 
>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> List:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I do not ascribe my beliefs to Peirce, I scrupulously quote his own 
>>>>> statements.
>>>>> 
>>>>> It is standard practice to put any words added within a quotation in 
>>>>> square brackets, which signals that they are not in the original text.
>>>>> 
>>>>> In Peirce's speculative grammar, the sign, object, and interpretant are 
>>>>> not "informational sites where information is processed." He never 
>>>>> describes them that way.
>>>>> 
>>>>> As I observed before, Peirce also never states nor implies that a sign 
>>>>> has three objects. The key to understanding his different references to 
>>>>> objects in CP 8.314 (EP 2:498, 1909 Mar 14) is in its very first sentence.
>>>>> 
>>>>> CSP: We must distinguish between the Immediate Object,--i.e. the Object 
>>>>> as represented in the sign,--and the Real (no, because perhaps the Object 
>>>>> is altogether fictive, I must choose a different term, therefore), say 
>>>>> rather the Dynamical Object, which, from the nature of things, the Sign 
>>>>> cannot express, which it can only indicate and leave the interpreter to 
>>>>> find out by collateral experience.
>>>>> 
>>>>> As Peirce repeatedly confirms elsewhere, a sign has only these two 
>>>>> objects, immediate and dynamical. Accordingly, in his first example later 
>>>>> in the same paragraph, the "Object, as expressed" is not some third 
>>>>> object, it is the immediate object. Likewise, for any sign that has a 
>>>>> real (not fictive) object, it is not some third object, it is the 
>>>>> dynamical object. Peirce confirms all this in his second example later in 
>>>>> the same paragraph.
>>>>> 
>>>>> CSP: I reply, let us suppose: "It is a stormy day." Here is another sign. 
>>>>> Its Immediate Object is the notion of the present weather so far as this 
>>>>> is common to her mind and mine,--not the character of it, but the 
>>>>> identity of it. The Dynamical Object is the identity of the actual and 
>>>>> Real meteorological conditions at the moment.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Again, there is no third object.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA
>>>>> Structural Engineer, Synechist Philosopher, Lutheran Christian
>>>>> www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt 
>>>>> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt> / twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt 
>>>>> <http://twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt>
>>>>> On Sat, Sep 7, 2024 at 2:21 PM Edwina Taborsky <[email protected] 
>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>>> List, JAS
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I’ll continue to disagree with you - I do think that you post your own 
>>>>>> beliefs -[ and I don’t see what is wrong with this!]  for example, where 
>>>>>> you ascribe to god,   ‘creating and writing on the blackboard.  My only 
>>>>>> complaint is when you ascribe your beliefs to Peirce. 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> And you ignore the definition of Peirce that God means ‘Mind’. [6.502] 
>>>>>> Indeed, you tried to denigrate this quotation by adding your own term of 
>>>>>> [merely] ..in brackets, before the word ‘mind’ - without informing us 
>>>>>> that this addition was your own. Peirce didn’t write ‘[merely] mind’. He 
>>>>>> said - ’the analogue of a mind..is what he means by “God”. And, “the 
>>>>>> pragmaticistic definition of ens necessariium would require many pages; 
>>>>>> but some hints toward it may be given. A disembodied spirit or pure 
>>>>>> mind”  [6.490 my emphasis]. 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> So what if I use the term of nodes to describe the informational sites 
>>>>>> where information is processed? That’s a red herring tactic. What’s your 
>>>>>> problem with that? I didn’t declare their use as Peirce’s!  But- these 
>>>>>> terms do, in my view, help to clarify what is going on within the 
>>>>>> semiosic triad. ..which is an active processing of hard data from an 
>>>>>> external site  into an interpretation. 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> And most certainly, there is a basis for Peirce explaining that there 
>>>>>> are three objects!! He specifically details them in 8.314 - which 
>>>>>> quotation I already gave, where he refers to the “This is a sign, whose 
>>>>>> Object, as expressed, is the weather at that time, but whose Dynamical 
>>>>>> Object is the impression which I have presumably derived from peeping 
>>>>>> between the window curtains”.  See the difference?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> This third Object, which is external and not necessarily sensed - is 
>>>>>> “There are Real things, whose characters are entirely independent of our 
>>>>>> opinions about them; …5.384. The Real Object [the weather] only became 
>>>>>> the Dynamic Object when Peirce looked at it. 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> That is, I consider that you err in assigning the term of ‘Dynamic 
>>>>>> Object to these external  ‘Real things’ with which we are not, at the 
>>>>>> time, semeosically interacting. .  I consider that the term of Dynamic 
>>>>>> Object is, as Peirce outlines, that first contact of external stimuli 
>>>>>> into the senses. …which the semiosic triad will ‘indicate [8.314] …via 
>>>>>> the actual acceptance of stimuli. The actual acceptance of stimuli is 
>>>>>> The Immediate Object - “the Object as represented in the sign” 8.314.  
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> To give an example - if a dog is running around in he woods - there are 
>>>>>> lots of ‘Real Objects’..which the dog doesn’t interact with. But they 
>>>>>> are real!  BUT - if it stops and sniffs the air, then - it has 
>>>>>> interacted with a Real Object, by ‘connecting, semiotically, with it - 
>>>>>> and thus, accepting the external stimuli which is coming from that Real 
>>>>>> Object. That Real Object is now, a Dynamic Object..because it is 
>>>>>> connected to the dog’s senses. BUT - not all the data of that external 
>>>>>> object can be sensed by the dog..so..what IS sensed and semiotically 
>>>>>> worked on, is the Immediate Object. It is this internal data - just a 
>>>>>> part of the full informational content of the Dynamic Object and just a 
>>>>>> part of the full informational content of the Real Object - that forms 
>>>>>> the Immediate Object, and it is this IO data that is transformed by the 
>>>>>> mediative laws of the Representamen into the various Interpretants. 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Edwina
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