Terry, Edwina, List:

TR: Do I have that right?


No, I frankly do not see it that way at all. Again, the closest that we can
come to "experiencing" 1ns is perceiving an unvarying sound or color, and
even this is a poor approximation because it requires either the
compression and decompression of air molecules or the oscillation of light
waves at a certain frequency. According to Peirce, any *event *is a
manifestation of 2ns (not 1ns) because it involves change, and any laws
*governing *events are manifestations of 3ns--no human participation is
necessary. All signs are also (paradigmatic) manifestations of 3ns,
although they are iconic (1ns), indexical (2ns), and symbolic (3ns) to
varying degrees.

ET: Every 'action' is triadic. So, the stars imploding is a triadic action
...


On the contrary, according to Peirce there are dyadic actions (2ns) and
there are triadic "actions" (3ns), although I advocate confining this term
to the former since it has the same root as *actual*. Terry even cited one
of the relevant passages, but since he did not quote it, I will.

CSP: All dynamical action, or action of brute force, physical or psychical,
either takes place between two subjects,--whether they react equally upon
each other, or one is agent and the other patient, entirely or
partially,--or at any rate is a resultant of such actions between pairs.
But by "semiosis" I mean, on the contrary, an action, or influence, which
is, or involves, a cooperation of *three *subjects, such as a sign, its
object, and its interpretant, this tri-relative influence not being in any
way resolvable into actions between pairs. (CP 5.484, EP 2:411, 1907)


The stars imploding is a dyadic/dynamical action. So is the *brute *effect
of the resulting gravity waves on a scientific instrument. However,
the *detection
*of the waves--i.e., the recognition that the instrument's behavior is an
indexical sign of their impinging upon it--and the *interpretation *of them
in turn as an indexical sign of stars imploding are triadic/semiosic
processes. Obviously, any subsequent communications about these matters
are, as well.

Regards,

Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA
Structural Engineer, Synechist Philosopher, Lutheran Christian
www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt

On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 7:09 PM Edwina Taborsky <[email protected]> wrote:

> Terry, list
>
> I'll take a different view. Every 'action' is triadic. So, the stars
> imploding is a triadic action - and I'd say it has all three categories
> functional in this implosion - regardless of who saw it, heard it or when.
> Other stars certainly were 'aware'.
>
>  Now - we can consider our reception of this event centuries after the
> event. I consider that Robert Marty's outline of the lattice is an
> excellent analytic framework for working through these steps from first
> input of data to some kind of conclusion.
>
> 1] First - that human observer 'receives' this data input - as a triadic
> sensation, a 'Rhematic Iconic Qualisign', ie, the triad's three relations
> are all in a mode of 1ns.[1-1-1]  All that this means is that the sense
> data has been received. No interpretation.
>
> 2] But this first 'hit' immediately must acknowledge the differentiation
> between the input external data [from the imploding star] and the receiver.
> So, the experience could move into a rhematic iconic sinsign -[1-1-2] which
> introduces the differentiation of 2ns as mediator by the sinsign of 2ns.
>
> 3] Then, this moves through the human observer's system - and -  Thirdness
> moves in, as this individual begins to get an 'idea' of what's going
> on...and the sense data becomes a Rhematic Iiconic Legisign [the legisign
> is 3ns].1-1-3 which makes use of this human's scientific experience stored
> in 3ns.
>
> .- and then into a Rhematic Indexical Legisign  [1-2-3] which continues
> with the analysis of the actual  indexical  data in 2ns by using the
> knowledge-based 3ns analysis [legisign].   Our individual might end the
> process there...an individual interpretation of local stimuli as referenced
> to a general rule.
>
> or..might go further..and come up with a Dicent symbolic Legisign
> [2-3-3]..which is viewing the input data as a conclusion of the analysis
> and, eg, deciding that all this data is the 'particular attribute of the
> law-of-imploding stars. It becomes a part of the 'scholarly analysis'...and
> can be what is reported in journals.
>
> I hope this isn't too confusing. [Robert Marty also explains how this
> path, moving from first sensate input can also go very wrong, and can move
> away from the actuality of the hard data in 2ns...and move into 'magical
> thinking'!
>
> Edwina
>
> Stars imploding long before humanity came into being and presence on Earth
> (an event of 1ns) emit gravity waves
> <https://scitechdaily.com/violent-neutron-star-collision-sends-gravitational-waves-shuddering-through-the-fabric-of-space-and-time/#:~:text=When%20two%20neutron%20stars%20spiral,collision%20of%20two%20black%20holes.>.
> Those waveforms  travel through time and space until eons upon eons later
> they’re detected by a human observer on Earth (2ns) in 2015. After
> confirmation and concurrence, the data and event are reported in scientific
> journals (3ns). While semiotic 2ns is an (indexical?) relation connecting
> the waves with the collision, semiosic 3ns relations only began in 2015
> with the human observation and reporting thereof (EP 2.411).
>
> Do I have that right?
>
>
>
> Terry
>
>
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