Aw: Re: [PEIRCE-L] What's The Use?

2014-10-02 Thread Helmut Raulien
Jon, Edwina, List, you wrote: (...) normative science (...) seeks knowledge regarding the relative values of its objects, (...), and these objects are signs. Truth is mostly seen as a digital value (either yes or no, with no gradient in between). Peirce too sees it like that, I think, in his

Re: [biosemiotics:6973] [PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.1

2014-10-02 Thread Frederik Stjernfelt
Dear Jeff, Gary, lists - Sorry for being absent from the discussion - I fell ill during traveling in Germany but am now back on the horse. Jeff, it is certainly an interesting and important idea to compare Peirce's mature doctrine of the Dicisign from the years after the turn of the century

Re: [biosemiotics:6973] [PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.1

2014-10-02 Thread Frederik Stjernfelt
Dear Clark, lists - Mathematics certainly deals in propositions according to P. P's general philosophy of math claims that math is about forms of relations, and that those abstract objects are addressed by the help of diagrams. Existing, particular, physical diagram tokens permit the access to

Re: [biosemiotics:6973] [PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.1

2014-10-02 Thread Frederik Stjernfelt
Dear Clark, lists, Den 25/09/2014 kl. 19.22 skrev Clark Goble cl...@lextek.commailto:cl...@lextek.com: On Sep 25, 2014, at 8:50 AM, Frederik Stjernfelt stj...@hum.ku.dkmailto:stj...@hum.ku.dk wrote: This isn’t to say Heidegger and Peirce are the same. Just that I think the move towards an

Re: [PEIRCE-L] [biosemiotics:6952] Re: Natural Propositions

2014-10-02 Thread Frederik Stjernfelt
Dear Cathy, lists Good point F Den 29/09/2014 kl. 02.37 skrev Catherine Legg cl...@waikato.ac.nzmailto:cl...@waikato.ac.nz: Dear All, Yes, just to reiterate what has also been said by Jeff D in his post in this thread – the key criterion for thought, and intelligent thought, is not

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Natural Propositions • Selected Passages

2014-10-02 Thread Frederik Stjernfelt
Dear Jon, lists Peirce use the concept degenerate in his sign theory in analogy to the geometric sense of the term.. Referring to conic sections, certain sections are generic (hyperbolas, ellipses) while other sections are degenerate because corresponding to non-generic cases where one or more

[PEIRCE-L] RE: [biosemiotics:7048] Re: Natural Propositions,

2014-10-02 Thread Gary Fuhrman
Just a bibliographic note here: I think that all references to or quotations from the Syllabus should just give the EP2 page number, unless it’s a reference to the “Nomenclature and Divisions of Dyadic Relations” (CP 3.571ff.). Except for that part, the Syllabus is complete and together in EP2,

[PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:7050] Re: Natural Propositions,

2014-10-02 Thread Benjamin Udell
Gary R., Gary F., lists, A little more on what happened to the abstract and singular symbols. The singular symbol / the subindex designates, names, or says 'this' or 'that', etc. Earlier Peirce had accounted those functions as indexical. In 1885 he said that demonstrative and relative

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions • Selected Passages

2014-10-02 Thread Jon Awbrey
Peircers, Another passage from ''Natural Propositions'' that appeared to light up before my mind's eye — I'm guessing because of all the time I whiled away wrestling with divergent views of assertion when I first began studying the history of logic — is this selection from Chapter 3. quote

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:7050] Re: Natural Propositions,

2014-10-02 Thread Gary Richmond
Ben, lists, Thanks for this excellent work, even if I'm left with the same question you had concerning the fate of the singular symbol. I'm about to be traveling again--btw, I understand Frederik is as well from an off-list email message today saying he's traveling to Paris to give an

[PEIRCE-L] Example of Dicisign?

2014-10-02 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
A question to better understand what dicisign is. Can one say that Gun Country by Michael Murphy is a dicisign? http://www.artprize.org/michael-murphy/2014/gun-country Best wishes, Evgenii - PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on Reply List or Reply All to REPLY ON

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Example of Dicisign?

2014-10-02 Thread Gary Richmond
Evgenii, lists, I would say that 'Gun Country' is a dicisign. Although I've haven't delved into it deeply, in Tony Jappy's book,* Introduction to Peircean Visual Semiotics, *one finds a test Peirce gives of what may count as a dicisign as a footnote in chapter 6, one of the places in the book

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Example of Dicisign?

2014-10-02 Thread Jon Awbrey
Gary, You are free to interpret it diversely. It possesses no owntology. Jon Gary Richmond wrote: Jon, Evgenii, lists, Well, Jon, if what you say is true, now that I've looked at the video of Gun Country--which I hadn't earlier (only the still shots)--I've decided that, given the context

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Example of Dicisign?

2014-10-02 Thread Gary Richmond
Jon, So a qualisign could be a dicisign call an icon an index and that too is fine and whatever whomever happens to opine is OK just for tryin' as good an interpretation as yours or mine (or his or hers)? Best, Gary (Jon, please, I'll give you the last ditty, and we can move on to more serious

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Example of Dicisign?

2014-10-02 Thread Stephen C. Rose
I think I'm going to call this the Last Word Forum. *@stephencrose https://twitter.com/stephencrose* On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Gary Richmond gary.richm...@gmail.com wrote: Jon, So a qualisign could be a dicisign call an icon an index and that too is fine and whatever whomever

Re: [biosemiotics:6973] [PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.1

2014-10-02 Thread Clark Goble
On Oct 2, 2014, at 4:59 AM, Frederik Stjernfelt stj...@hum.ku.dk wrote: Mathematics certainly deals in propositions according to P. P's general philosophy of math claims that math is about forms of relations, and that those abstract objects are addressed by the help of diagrams.

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Theories and Realism (was Natural Propositions)

2014-10-02 Thread Clark Goble
On Oct 1, 2014, at 3:00 PM, Howard Pattee hpat...@roadrunner.com wrote: On Oct 1, 2014, at 4:00 AM, John Collier wrote: I think that it is a given that for any realist position there is a nominalist position in the contemporary sense that can fit the same assent structure. Typically

Aw: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Example of Dicisign?

2014-10-02 Thread Helmut Raulien
I would say, it is not an argument, because there is no because or therefore in its message (no syllogism), but only a statement of combination. In the sign relaition it is a combination of the outer shape, the shapes of the elements, and the dispersion oft he elements in the outer shape. So the

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Example of Dicisign?

2014-10-02 Thread Gary Fuhrman
I forgot to add the obvious linguistic translation of this dicisign: Guns R US. (By the way, I'd also say that the work is a proposition, as it is clearly symbolic, even without the verbal description or the title.) gary f. -Original Message- From: Gary Fuhrman

[PEIRCE-L] Am I Wrong

2014-10-02 Thread Stephen C. Rose
Am I wrong in recalling that Derrida actually spent some time going through unpublished Peirce mss in Cambridge. Or am I thinking of someone else of more than passing fame? *@stephencrose https://twitter.com/stephencrose* - PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on Reply List or

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Am I Wrong

2014-10-02 Thread Clark Goble
On Oct 2, 2014, at 5:31 PM, Stephen C. Rose stever...@gmail.com wrote: Am I wrong in recalling that Derrida actually spent some time going through unpublished Peirce mss in Cambridge. Or am I thinking of someone else of more than passing fame? I’ve never heard that. Sure you aren’t

Aw: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Example of Dicisign?

2014-10-02 Thread Helmut Raulien
Supplement: Please replace in my text dicisign with sinsign, and dicent with dicisign. I only knew the word dicent for dicisign, and thought, that dicisign was a synonym for sinsign, because of the ending sign. I would say, it is not an argument, because there is no because or therefore in

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Am I Wrong

2014-10-02 Thread Clark Goble
On Oct 2, 2014, at 6:47 PM, Stephen C. Rose stever...@gmail.com wrote: Nope. Not Whitehead I'm pretty sure. But if no one else has heard it. I associate it with some post-modern sort but I am drawing a blank. I know it was someone though. I was curious and did a bit of search. You were

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Am I Wrong

2014-10-02 Thread Stephen C. Rose
Exactly what I remembered. But lost in the mist. Thank you! *@stephencrose https://twitter.com/stephencrose* On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Clark Goble cl...@lextek.com wrote: On Oct 2, 2014, at 6:47 PM, Stephen C. Rose stever...@gmail.com wrote: Nope. Not Whitehead I'm pretty sure. But

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Am I Wrong

2014-10-02 Thread Clark Goble
On Oct 2, 2014, at 8:28 PM, Clark Goble cl...@lextek.com wrote: It’s ten years later that he writes about Derrida and the symbol in On Grammatologie. Whoops. An other typo - my apologies. Doing this quickly as I do some work. Obviously I meant Peirce there, not Derrida. I should have