RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:8047] Re: Triadic Relations

2015-01-31 Thread John Collier
system that is a lot easier to use. John From: Benjamin Udell [mailto:bud...@nyc.rr.com] Sent: January 31, 2015 8:45 PM To: John Collier; biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee; peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:8047] Re: Triadic Relations John C., Gary F., Well, clearly I'

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:8047] Re: Triadic Relations

2015-01-31 Thread Benjamin Udell
John C., Gary F., Well, clearly I'm not familiar enough with Putnam's argument. As regards different directions of determination as 'constraint', it might be sufficient to distinguish level from meta-level. If a given object always has a certain index accompanying it, by which people usually

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:8047] Re: Triadic Relations

2015-01-31 Thread Benjamin Udell
John C., Gary F., lists, Whew, I don't like to write posts where I figure I'm wearying people by trying to fill in gaps that I discern in my previous posts. But here goes - I should add that, if the brain in a vat faces only a practical impossibility, not a theoretical impossibility, of disco

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:8047] Re: Triadic Relations

2015-01-31 Thread John Collier
Comments intertwined. Thanks for the effort, but it doesn’t really help with what is worrying me. From: Benjamin Udell [mailto:bud...@nyc.rr.com] Sent: January 31, 2015 7:08 PM To: biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee; peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: [PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:8047] Re: Triadic Relations