List: One more time--conceiving God as *Ens necessarium* and the dynamical object determining the entire universe as one immense sign is not a *religious *framework, it is a *metaphysical/cosmological* framework.
Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Structural Engineer, Synechist Philosopher, Lutheran Christian www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt / twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Wed, Oct 2, 2024 at 8:41 AM Edwina Taborsky <[email protected]> wrote: > Gary R, List > > I’ll only make this one post - since I’m not going to get into a religious > discussion. ButI think that your outline of a panentheism is closer to > that outlined by Peirce’s semiosis - than Jon’s classical theism. > > That is - I reject ,as do you, the notion of a discrete separate external > Dynamic Object - external to the universe. That is semiosically- illogical, > since the DO only becomes a DO within a semiosic interaction. > > Second - I reject the interpretation of ’the whole universe is a sign’ to > mean that whole universe is merely the mediate term, the > representamen.Again, semiotically, that’sillogical. The triad is > irreducible and a reprsentamen does not ‘exist’ or function on its own. > Peirce was very explicit about this. > > Third -hhmm..Could your notion of Jesus be the Immediate Object? > > That’s all I’ll say - my only point was that I consider that JAS’s outline > of this religious framework is NOT similar to that of Peirce. > > Edwina >
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