Re: [PEIRCE-L] The danger of destroying Peirce's semeiotic (was Ambiguities...

2019-03-23 Thread Gary Richmond
List, John, Jon, Jon wrote: "The new thread title is alarmist hyperbole." I strongly agree that the Subject line of this thread, "The danger of destroying Peirce's semeiotic," is alarmist in the extreme, and would be even if it weren't mildly absurd, as if Jon's arguing against John's understandi

Aw: Re: [PEIRCE-L] The danger of destroying Peirce's semeiotic (was Ambiguities...

2019-03-23 Thread Helmut Raulien
List, as far as I´ve understood from reading elsewhere, a seme is, in semantics, the smallest carrier of a meaning in a word. To widen the meaning of seme towards semiotics, might mean, that it is the smallest carrier of meaning of a sign which may be non symbolical (not language) as well. So, if

Aw: Re: [PEIRCE-L] The danger of destroying Peirce's semeiotic (was Ambiguities...

2019-03-23 Thread Helmut Raulien
    Supplement: Of course it is horribly false to say that the rose talked about is a seme (the subject that is meant), but the word "rose", uttered by Gertrude Stein is (the subject of the sentence). A rose is a rose, but a subject is not necessarily a subject. List, as far as I´ve understoo

Re: [PEIRCE-L] The Bedrock Beneath Pragmaticism

2019-03-23 Thread joseph simpson
Jerry: It appears that the content of any reply that I created at this point in time, would not be compatible with typical Peirce List content. Take care, be good to yourself and have fun, Joe On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 9:45 PM Jerry LR Chandler < jerry_lr_chand...@icloud.com> wrote: > Joe, List: