Re: [biosemiotics:6973] [PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.1

2014-10-02 Thread Frederik Stjernfelt
Dear Jeff, Gary, lists - Sorry for being absent from the discussion - I fell ill during traveling in Germany but am now back on the horse. Jeff, it is certainly an interesting and important idea to compare Peirce's mature doctrine of the Dicisign from the years after the turn of the century

Re: [biosemiotics:6973] [PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.1

2014-10-02 Thread Frederik Stjernfelt
Dear Clark, lists - Mathematics certainly deals in propositions according to P. P's general philosophy of math claims that math is about forms of relations, and that those abstract objects are addressed by the help of diagrams. Existing, particular, physical diagram tokens permit the access to

Re: [biosemiotics:6973] [PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.1

2014-10-02 Thread Frederik Stjernfelt
Dear Clark, lists, Den 25/09/2014 kl. 19.22 skrev Clark Goble cl...@lextek.commailto:cl...@lextek.com: On Sep 25, 2014, at 8:50 AM, Frederik Stjernfelt stj...@hum.ku.dkmailto:stj...@hum.ku.dk wrote: This isn’t to say Heidegger and Peirce are the same. Just that I think the move towards an

Re: [biosemiotics:6973] [PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.1

2014-10-02 Thread Clark Goble
On Oct 2, 2014, at 4:59 AM, Frederik Stjernfelt stj...@hum.ku.dk wrote: Mathematics certainly deals in propositions according to P. P's general philosophy of math claims that math is about forms of relations, and that those abstract objects are addressed by the help of diagrams.

Re: [biosemiotics:6973] [PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.1

2014-09-24 Thread Clark Goble
Just to go along with those last comments of mine, the following quote is be useful. The logic of relatives furnishes the solution, by showing that propositions usually have several subjects, that one of these subjects is the so-called Universe of Discourse, that as a general rule a