Re: [PEIRCE-L] qualisigns

2020-05-11 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
List: > > JAS: For example, my speculative grammar does not include qualisigns at all, > for the reason that I already stated--a quality in itself cannot represent > something else as its object, it can only present itself. > > The sign of an object is represented by qualisigns as metrics

Re: [PEIRCE-L] qualisigns

2020-05-02 Thread Auke van Breemen
Jon Alan, Novel phenomena give rise to a situation of doubt because there is no habit associated with that phenomenon. I want to have the posibility to talk about the formation of new habits. Only allowing habit change is too limited. JAS: I am again having trouble making sense of the rest of t

Re: [PEIRCE-L] qualisigns

2020-05-01 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Auke, List: I did not say that doubt is a habit, I said that a belief is a habit (of conduct), such that "the resolution of doubt into belief" is a habit-change. Since I deny that a quality *in itself* can be a sign of anything other than itself--which is trivial, since everything is a sign of it

Re: [PEIRCE-L] qualisigns

2020-05-01 Thread Auke van Breemen
Jon Alan, List, I think that by now our discussion about interpretants has been carried trough to a sufficient degree. In the sense that the respective positions have been clarified as far as possible and no further gain is to be expected. Yust one note about doubt supposed to be a habit. The m