RE: [PEIRCE-L] A question about the triadic relation of Sign

2015-01-29 Thread John Collier
List, Sung, This diagram is not of a Peircean triad, but of reducible dyadic Sausserian communication. Of course in this system it works out as Sung describes, but it is not relevant to Peircean semiotics. John From: sji.confor...@gmail.com [mailto:sji.confor...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Sungch

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Triadic Relations

2015-01-29 Thread John Collier
Ben, List, I believe that a weaker is required for an ordered triple. Any finite set can be ordered. The Axiom of Choice, which is controversial, implies that any set including infinite ones can be ordered. The order need not be anything like 'more' or 'less' in any intuitive sense. For example

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Triadic Relations

2015-01-29 Thread Howard Pattee
At 08:50 PM 1/28/2015, Jon Awbrey wrote: This is common misconception of life as semiotics. HP: Without some evidence here, I would consider this misconception only one opinion. Many others say life and semiotics are coextensive. JA: A more pragmatic understanding of the process would regard

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Triadic Relations

2015-01-29 Thread Jon Awbrey
Howard, List, Computer problems of a recalcitrant sort are forcing me to work on my phone, phor which my phingers are phar too phat and the auto-mis-speller is a constant source of transcription travesty. The pre-mutated text was: “This is a common misconception of life as semiosis.” I wasn'

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Triadic Relations

2015-01-29 Thread Benjamin Udell
Gary R., lists, Thanks, Gary. The discussion of semiotic determination at the Wikipedia Peirce article were originally written by others including Jon Awbrey and then edited by me. I've shown the URLs in the links in the footnotes so that they'll be accessible in the I.U. archive. http://en

Re: [PEIRCE-L] A question about the triadic relation of Sign

2015-01-29 Thread Sungchul Ji
John, Much as I admire your expertise in philosophy, I am afraid you missed the key point of the diagrams in my previous post you refer to: "The commutative triangle representation of communication diagrammed (012915-1) in Figures 1 and 2 of my previous post embodies both Saussurean

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Triadic Relations

2015-01-29 Thread Benjamin Udell
Gary R., lists, I just noticed further discussion of semiotic determination in the fifth or so paragraph in the linked section in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_%28semiotics%29#Triadic_signs This paragraph was my rewrite of a paragraph that explained signs in terms of Peirce's article "Wha

RE: [PEIRCE-L] A question about the triadic relation of Sign

2015-01-29 Thread John Collier
I find this a bit weird, Gary and Edwina. Perhaps it is just the fine details. I once published This requires a triadic production of what Peirce calls the interpretant, a relation in which the sign (representamen) bears some variety of correspondence to its reference through the immediate objec

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Triadic Relations

2015-01-29 Thread Benjamin Udell
John C., Jeff, lists, John, You're right, in the sense of 'ordered pair' (e.g., such that, in set theory, _/relation/_ is defined as ordered pair), it's true that there's no intuitive sense of 'more' or 'less' or 'earlier' or 'later' to which the relation appeals as a rule. Every arbitrary seq

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Triadic Relations

2015-01-29 Thread John Collier
Ben, List, I guess I have trouble making sense of the notion of determination here. I know you are saying what Peirce says; that isn’t at issue for me. What bothers me is that without an interpretant there is no representamen, so the interpretant is necessary for the representamen. It isn’t suf

Re: [biosemiotics:8019] Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Triadic Relations

2015-01-29 Thread Benjamin Udell
Howard, lists, For my part, your question is difficult for two reasons: 1. I don't know much about biology, and 2. Peirce gets complicated when he considers the semiotics of commands. One could consider the protein as a dynamic interpretant from the viewpoint of the protein. From the viewpoi

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Triadic Relations

2015-01-29 Thread Gary Fuhrman
John, list, The ordinary dictionary definition of the transitive verb “determine” as used in logic is ‘to limit in scope’ (OED), ‘to set limits to’ (as the etymology would suggest), or (you might say) ‘to constrain the form of’. I don’t see that Peirce’s usage in his definition of “sign” dep

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Triadic Relations

2015-01-29 Thread Benjamin Udell
John C., lists, John, you wrote, I guess I have trouble making sense of the notion of determination here. I know you are saying what Peirce says; that isn’t at issue for me. What bothers me is that without an interpretant there is no representamen, so the interpretant is necessary fo

[PEIRCE-L] Poecilesemiosis

2015-01-29 Thread Jon Awbrey
out the window, through gently falling snow, a chickadee hammers at a sunflower seed on a bare branch of our crab apple tree — it heartens me to see that there remains one intelligent creature left on earth. jon awbrey 29 jan 2015 -- academia: http://independent.academia.edu/JonAwbrey my word

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Triadic Relations

2015-01-29 Thread Jon Awbrey
Jeff, List, A good place to begin again may be here: “On the Algebra of Logic” [Am. J. Math. 3, 15–57 (1880)] [3.] The Logic of Relatives [3.1.] Individual and Simple Terms [CP 3.214.] Just as we had to begin the study of Logical Addition and Multiplication by considering ∞ and 0, terms wh

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Triadic Relations

2015-01-29 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
John, List: > For example in a function, like f=ma, is an ordered pair, one from one > domain and another from another domain such that their product is in another > domain which is the range of the function. Huh? Yes, as stated, I agree with your sentence. And that a function can be defin

Re: [biosemiotics:8031] Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Triadic Relations

2015-01-29 Thread Gary Richmond
Ben, Thanks for providing this and the other materials in your previous message on Peirce's use of determination in semiotic contexts. While I'm familiar with much of it, it's all worth a fresh re-reading, and having it in an (almost) single place is most helpful. By the way, Nattiez is a French

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Triadic Relations

2015-01-29 Thread John Collier
Jerry, I specifically referred to the Newtonian interpretation as an example, which you excised. My point was that the ordering here does not imply any intuitive order in terms of greater or less than. The order of the numbers in the domains is a separate issue from the ordering of the paramet