Re: [PEIRCE-L] Laws of Nature as Signs

Dear list: “the fact that A presents B with gift C...” “I cannot forget that there are the germs of the *theory of the categories* which is (if anything is) the gift I make to the world. That is my child. In it I shall live when oblivion has me — my body” The surprising fact, *C*, is

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Laws of Nature as Signs

List, Charles: > On Apr 30, 2017, at 2:43 PM, Charles Pyle wrote: > > Many years ago linguists chewed over the issue of whether the semantic > analysis of three place predicates can be broken down into a series of two > place predicates and discovered that the two are

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Laws of Nature as Signs

I can't tell who wrote the following quote, so I am not sure who to address here. Many years ago linguists chewed over the issue of whether the semantic analysis of three place predicates can be broken down into a series of two place predicates and discovered that the two are not semantically

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Laws of Nature as Signs

Jon and Jerry, JA triadic relations extend across a threshold of complexity, such that relations of all higher adicities can be analyzed in terms of 1-adic, 2-adic, and 3-adic relations. No. Peirce never said that. Many logicians have correctly observed that you can replace any triadic

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Determination and Creation in Sign-Action (was Laws of Nature as Signs)

Jeff, Jon S, Sorry, I'm a bit late following up on this thread - but I only have a few comments to add anyway. JS: Peirce obviously endorsed analyzing the Sign-Object relation as dyadic by excluding the Interpretant. GF: Yes, in a way, but he did not exclude the Interpretant in his

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Laws of Nature as Signs

List: > On Apr 29, 2017, at 10:41 PM, John F Sowa wrote: > > Re mathematical category theory: Many mathematicians believe that > the term 'category theory' was a poor choice. The focus of category > theory is on the mappings or morphisms. The things that are mapped > could

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Laws of Nature as Signs

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