Edwina, All ...
In the many, many discussions we've had along these lines over the last couple of decades I think it's most commonly
been understood that such convergence theses amount to regulative principles, in effect falling into the category of
abductive hopes.
Regards,
Jon
On 5/19/2020 8:09 AM, Edwina Taborsky wrote:
Robert, Gary F, list - with regard to concerns about the concept of
a 'predestination' identity of something, i.e., the notion of a
'final truth' about this 'thing' - I question whether such an agenda
is the 'nature of Peircean semiosis'.
Whether one assumes that truth is a fact or an ideal - both
assumptions include the view that 'truth' exists about this 'thing'.
Now, in some instances of semiosis, we can indeed accept that there
is a truth vs a non-truth. For example, in the identity of a poison;
in the factual nature of an historical event.
But surely this is not definitive of the full nature of Peircean
semiosis. Did he spend all his years and work merely writing that 'if
you or a group work hard enough - you'll find out the truth of whether
X is a poison or the truth of what happened'....
This notion of an almost predestined reality of a 'thing'. which can
never change...seems to me to function only within pure Thirdness. It
ignores the brute accidents and changes of Secondness and totally
ignores the chance novelties introduced by Firstness. That is, it
ignores evolution and adaptation and novelty.
I consider that - apart from these factual situations of 'either-or'
[is it a poison or not; did this event occur or not] ….that
Peircean semiosis rejects a predestined Truth. Indeed, with the power
of Secondness and Firstness - Peircean semiosis rejects predestination
of any kind and sets up the world as complex, interactive, dynamic and
open to pure novelty, There is no 'final truth'.
Edwina
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