Re: [PEIRCE-L] Nominalism vs. Realism -

Hi Soren, EP 2: 463. Best, Jerry On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 5:23 PM, Søren Brier wrote: > Where can I find Peirce’s: *An Essay toward Improving our Reasoning in > Security and Liberty*, from 1913?? > > > > Best > > Søren > > > > *From:* Jerry Rhee

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Possible Article of Interest - CSP's "Mindset" from AI perspective

Saying reality is all does not mean everything is real. A unicorn is real only because of the role he or she plays in reality. Reality has no borders -- it is everything. Without an everything to designate with a word we are prey to binary or dualistic thinking which might be fine for some things

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Possible Article of Interest - CSP's "Mindset" from AI perspective

Clark, List: Right, that ambiguity surfaces in the two sentences that I initially mentioned a few days ago. - A unicorn has one horn. - Unicorns are real. The object of "unicorn" in the first sentence is the *idea *of a unicorn, and that is what makes it true, along with the fact that a

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Possible Article of Interest - CSP's "Mindset" from AI perspective

> On Feb 14, 2017, at 12:04 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt > wrote: > > A Replica of the word "unicorn" is thus a Rhematic Indexical Sinsign that > calls up the idea of a unicorn because, although no unicorn really exists, > real descriptions of the unicorn are well known to

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Possible Article of Interest - CSP's "Mindset" from AI perspective

Ben, Clark, List: Peirce's comments about the phoenix do indeed seem relevant to the unicorn example and the nature of labels in general. CSP: A Rhematic Symbol or Symbolic Rheme is a sign connected with its Object by an association of general ideas in such a way that its Replica calls up an

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Possible Article of Interest - CSP's "Mindset" from AI perspective

Clark, list, I haven't read very much on the problem of reference and generality with respect to fictional characters, so I'm reluctant to say that it usually comes down to equivocation over terms. Also I have in mind Peirce's comment, I don't remember where, that the object determines the

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Possible Article of Interest - CSP's "Mindset" from AI perspective

Clark, list, Yes, the different kinds of universe of discourse is indeed a "tricky bit" as you put it. If the sign's object is ultimately the universe of which the special object is a member, or part, then is there any reason for the sign not to be the universe of signs of which the special