On 12/14/15 8:00 PM, Jerry LR Chandler wrote:
List,
The argument given in Matt's email below is problematic. I will raise
a question and make a brief and casual effort to place a Peircian
interpretation on symbolic communication in terms of current
scientific terminology.
While human langu
On 12/14/15 8:00 PM, Jerry LR Chandler wrote:
1. Mathematical equations can be read as sentences, but when the
number of terms is large, the reader must evaluate the individual
symbols as units of the whole and as the unity (wholeness of the
equation) for the message to be communicated. This
List,
The argument given in Matt's email below is problematic. I will raise a
question and make a brief and casual effort to place a Peircian interpretation
on symbolic communication in terms of current scientific terminology.
While human language is a very powerful source of human communica
Franklin Ransom is using a discredited analysis of language, referred to as
sociolinguistic relativism or determinism, where language defines the knowledge
base; i.e., language determines thought. Followers of this linear causality are
such as Whorf-Sapir, and Basil Bernstein. It doesn't stand u
> On Dec 14, 2015, at 3:08 AM, Matt Faunce wrote:
>
> On 12/13/15 6:24 PM, Franklin Ransom wrote:
>> Human languages differ with respect to the rules of construction and the
>> things that can be said, and they also develop and evolve over time; the
>> development of a language to the point wh
> On Dec 14, 2015, at 12:57 AM, John Collier wrote:
>
> I agree with the connection to the Pragmatic Maxim, especially in its later
> formulations, but I am pretty sure that there are even earlier formulations
> have a subjunctive component.
I just checked and you’re right. It appears the pre
List,
GF: There is no vagueness in a percept; it’s a singular. So I don’t see how
the concept of qualisign can serve the purpose you suggest here. I think the
qualisign is simply a necessary result of Peirce’s introduction of the
trichotomy of signs based on the sign’s mode of being in itself.
Matt, Franklin, List,
""Today, it is quite obvious that people living with Stone Age technology
speak languages
as complex and versatile as those spoken in the most highly industrialized
society.
*There are no primitive languages*. Virtually no linguist today would
disagree with this statement."
On 12/13/15 6:24 PM, Franklin Ransom wrote:
Human languages differ with respect to the rules of construction and
the things that can be said, and they also develop and evolve over
time; the development of a language to the point where it can
articulate scientific terminology is not a developmen
On 12/13/15 9:38 AM, Franklin Ransom wrote:
Matt wrote:
EP2.227: "perceptual judgments contain general elements," whereas
percepts don't. So, if you have a general type (legisign) in mind
then you have a perceptual judgment. So, smoke, as understood as
being a type, e.g., relati
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