Re: [PEIRCE-L] Ethics of terminology (was Different Semeiotic Analyses

2020-05-03 Thread Gary Richmond
Mary, List, This appeared on my Facebook page (Charles S. Peirce Society) shortly after I read your message today and I thought you might find it of interest: The question being responded to below was, why did Peirce's "theory of semiotics . . . go unnoticed in James's radical empiricism"?

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Ethics of terminology (was Different Semeiotic Analyses

2020-05-03 Thread Mary Libertin
John and list, You wrote: "Peirce's ethics of terminology is important. But he made an important distinction: If an author's term is adopted and used by other authors, then the person who coined that term has an obligation to continue using it in the same sense in which it is being used.

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Ethics of terminology (was Different Semeiotic Analyses

2020-05-03 Thread John F. Sowa
Gary R and Jon AS, Peirce's ethics of terminology is important.  But he made an important distinction:  If an author's term is adopted and used by other authors, then the person who coined that term has an obligation to continue using it in the same sense in which it is being used.  But if