Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Laws of Nature as Signs, CSP's Procrustean Bed?

BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Jon, list - yes, makes sense. Yes - I meant the internal Sign triadAnd yes, the three correlates are in 'other Sign relations'enables diversity Edwina -- This message is virus free, protected by Primus

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Laws of Nature as Signs, CSP's Procrustean Bed?

Edwina, List: ET: In a triadic spot/rhema/proposition which has three 'loose ends' or blank forms - which means, as I understand it, that it is open to being filled by some subject. So far, so good. The triadic Sign relation has three loose ends, which are filled by three subjects--the Sign

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Laws of Nature as Signs, CSP's Procrustean Bed?

List, Edwina > On Apr 13, 2017, at 4:18 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: > > Now- what am I missing in this view? I do not understand how your question(s) relate to the concept of identity. Perhaps if you can clearly state the premises and the conclusions of your arguments, I

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Laws of Nature as Signs, CSP's Procrustean Bed?

On 4/13/2017 3:59 PM, Jerry LR Chandler wrote: In my mind, I am left with an intractable question: Is a Procrustian Bed essential to understanding the role of the identity relation in CSP’s theory of logical graphs of relations? Or, is a semantic explanation possible? Peirce published his

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Laws of Nature as Signs, CSP's Procrustean Bed?

Jerry, list - as someone with no background in chemistry, I have a few questions: 1) I understand your analysis using the 'doctrine of valency' in chemistry and, as you point out, Peirce was a chemist. Now, in Robert's, p.115, he shows several figures - and figure 3 'represents triadic

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Laws of Nature as Signs, CSP's Procrustean Bed?

List: (This post is rather technical and the contents may be intractably perplex for many readers of this list. One purpose of this post is to crisply separate the fundamental philosophical concept of identity from the mathematical concept of identity. To differentiate CSP view of lines of