Aw: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-04-01 Thread Helmut Raulien
    Supplement: Edwina, List, Now I have an easier explanation of what I was meaning, based on topology and temporality regarding "internal" and "external". If sign A is the spatiotemporal supersign, sign B the spatiotemporal subsign, meaning: Sign B is located inside sign A or spatially identi

Aw: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-31 Thread Helmut Raulien
Edwina, ok, but a concept which has been formed by the individual who thinks about it, or by the two people who are talking about this concept, is even more a work in progress, or, as you wrote, anticipatory, like an immediate interpretant. But it is a funny thing, self referentiality, a creative

Re: Aw: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-31 Thread Edwina Taborsky
Helmut - a concept can be formed by an individual. It doesn't have to be formed by a group. The concept that the two people are using is a dynamic object. Yes, their interaction, if there are two people discussing a common concept, connects them to the wider community. Edwina

Aw: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-31 Thread Helmut Raulien
Edwina, The immediate interpretant is internal, but a concept is formed by a society, which the individuals are parts of. So perhaps they have access to what is internal of the society? I mean, when eg. two individuals talk about a common concept, this talk automatically makes them parts of the c

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-31 Thread Edwina Taborsky
Jeffrey- I understand your point, but please understand that I don't differentiate these terms with such specificity as do you and many others. That is - it would never occur to me, a non-philosophy person, to define an axiom as 'a fundamental rule that is beyond doubt'. I just muddle along wit

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-31 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; } Jon, list The psychical law i.e., Mind, is primordial and 'matter is effete mind' - but - this Mind is not human mind, but that basic natural 'primordial mind' which seeks or wills, so to speak, itself into exis

Re: RE: RE: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-30 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
; > Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal > > http://web.ncf.ca/collier > > > > From: Edwina Taborsky [mailto:tabor...@primus.ca] > Sent: Thursday, 30 March 2017 9:23 PM > To: John Collier > Cc: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu > Subject: Re: RE: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic pr

Re: RE: RE: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-30 Thread Edwina Taborsky
Associate Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal http://web.ncf.ca/collier [1] From: Edwina Taborsky [mailto:tabor...@primus.ca] Sent: Thursday, 30 March 2017 9:23 PM To: John Collier Cc: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: Re: RE: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem

Re: RE: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-30 Thread Jerry Rhee
M > *To:* John Collier > *Cc:* peirce-l@list.iupui.edu > *Subject:* Re: RE: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term > > > > John - thanks for the quotation. > > I fully agree. The Peircean framework is irreducibly triadic. As he > writes, "Every

RE: RE: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-30 Thread John Collier
] Sent: Thursday, 30 March 2017 9:23 PM To: John Collier Cc: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: Re: RE: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term John - thanks for the quotation. I fully agree. The Peircean framework is irreducibly triadic. As he writes, "Every sign has an object&qu

Re: RE: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-30 Thread Edwina Taborsky
lier Cc: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term John C., List: [John Collier] Peirce uses “sign” in both ways, which can be confusing. Perhaps I missed them, but I am not aware of any passages where Peirce use

Re: RE: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-30 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Jeff, List: Thanks for once again giving all of us this important reminder. It probably goes without saying that my focus tends to be on #1; after all, how can we claim that something we advocate is genuinely Peircean, without first carefully ascertaining what Peirce's own considered views were?

Aw: Re: Re: RE: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-30 Thread Helmut Raulien
Jon, List, Thank you. So this was another semantic problem, this time with the term "would"!    30. März 2017 um 20:04 Uhr Von: "Jon Alan Schmidt"   Helmut, List:   HR:  Eg. he wrote, that the dynamical object is real, and that it also is the object as a final study would show it to be.

Re: Re: RE: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-30 Thread Edwina Taborsky
ofessor Department of Philosophy Northern Arizona University (o) 928 523-8354 - From: Jon Alan Schmidt Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 6:52 AM To: tabor...@primus.ca Cc: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: Re: RE: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term Edwin

Re: Re: RE: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-30 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Helmut, List: HR: Eg. he wrote, that the dynamical object is real, and that it also is the object as a final study would show it to be. I think that the key word here is *would*. The idea is that the real is that which *would *come to be known by an infinite community after indefinite inquiry,

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-30 Thread Jerry Rhee
en on multiple universes, though I readily admit >> different metaphysical categories. But I think any deep difference is just >> talk. >> >> >> >> *From:* Jon Alan Schmidt [mailto:jonalanschm...@gmail.com] >> *Sent:* Thursday, 30 March 2017 3:33 PM >> *To:*

Aw: Re: RE: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-30 Thread Helmut Raulien
23-8354   From: Jon Alan Schmidt Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 6:52 AM To: tabor...@primus.ca Cc: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: Re: RE: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term   Edwina, List:   Just one (hopefully last) comment here.   ET:  But a thing that bothers me about

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-30 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
; *Sent:* Thursday, 30 March 2017 3:33 PM > *To:* John Collier > *Cc:* peirce-l@list.iupui.edu > *Subject:* Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term > > > > John C., List: > > *[John Collier] Peirce uses “sign” in both ways, which can be confusing.* &g

Re: RE: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-30 Thread Jeffrey Brian Downard
_ From: Jon Alan Schmidt Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 6:52 AM To: tabor...@primus.ca Cc: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: Re: RE: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term Edwina, List: Just one (hopefully last) comment here. ET: But a thing that bothers me about some of the focus of this

RE: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-30 Thread John Collier
: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term John C., List: [John Collier] Peirce uses “sign” in both ways, which can be confusing. Perhaps I missed them, but I am not aware of any passages where Peirce used "sign" to mean a "triad" or a "triadic funct

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-30 Thread Edwina Taborsky
Clark, list - I think I wasn't clear in my post below. What I meant to say is that Peirce himself did not use singular terms that meant 'only this' in his work. As John Collier points out - he used 'sign' and 'representamen'; his use of the three categories were filled with expansive sy

Re: RE: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-30 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Edwina, List: Just one (hopefully last) comment here. ET: But a thing that bothers me about some of the focus of this list is its isolation from reality; that is, it's all about words and definitions. But Peirce wasn't focused on that. Peirce was certainly not *only *focused on words and defin

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-30 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
ier > > Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Associate > > Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal > > http://web.ncf.ca/collier > > > > *From:* Jon Alan Schmidt [mailto:jonalanschm...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, 29 March 2017 11:37 PM > *To:* tabor...@primus

Re: RE: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-30 Thread Edwina Taborsky
-Natal http://web.ncf.ca/collier [1] From: Jon Alan Schmidt [mailto:jonalanschm...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 29 March 2017 11:37 PM To: tabor...@primus.ca Cc: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term Edwina, List:

RE: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-30 Thread John Collier
@list.iupui.edu Subject: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term Edwina, List: It has never been my intention to insult you, and I have never resorted to name-calling as you routinely have. I have simply expressed my considered opinion that your model of sign-action is significantly

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-29 Thread Jerry Rhee
*`when once it is written, every composition trundles about everywhere in the same way, in the presence both of those who know about the subject and of those who have nothing at all to do with it.. ~ *Phaedrus *Few persons care to study logic, because everybody conceives himself to be proficient

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-29 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Edwina, List: It has never been my intention to insult you, and I have never resorted to name-calling as you routinely have. I have simply expressed my considered opinion that your model of sign-action is significantly different from Peirce's, and I have provided the reasons why I take that posit

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-29 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; } Jon - I will say this only once; I won't get into a debate with you. 1) I use Peirce's term of 'representamen' rather than 'sign' to acknowledge the unique role in the triad; that mediative function/action in t

Re: Aw: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-29 Thread Edwina Taborsky
Helmut - the point to remember about Peircean semiosis is that it is dynamic; it sets up an active process of informational transformation. This is non-linear, so it is an error, I feel, to view Peircean semiosis as a step-by-step action, i.e., a linear movement from Object to Representa

Aw: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-29 Thread Helmut Raulien
Edwina, I agree. By "the sign" (and farer down "subsign") I didnt mean any sign or the phaneron, but the sign of which the dynamical object is a dynamical object. Best, Helmut    29. März 2017 um 01:57 Uhr Von: "Edwina Taborsky"   Helmut - it depends what you mean by 'sign'. The Dynami

Re: Aw: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-28 Thread Edwina Taborsky
Helmut - it depends what you mean by 'sign'. The Dynamic Object is external to another Dynamic Object! But, in my view, since 'everything is in Signs' then, everything functions within a triadic set of relations: the Object-Representamen-Interpretant. The Dynamic Object is, whe

Aw: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-28 Thread Helmut Raulien
Jon, Edwina, List, I think, the dynamical object must be external from the sign, because all other parts, or, less mechanicallly spoken, aspects, of it are internal of it. And, if nothing at all would be external from the sign, the sign would have no connection to other signs and be idiosyncratic

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-28 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; } That's what I mean by your arrogance, Jon. Instead of speaking just for yourself - you have to insist that you speak for Peirce. Or that you speak for all and 'anyone else'. I have backed up my views of Peirce repeatedl

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-28 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Edwina, List: I knew that I could count on you! As usual, you offer no evidence to back up your assertions, so I have no reason to take them seriously--and neither does anyone else. Cheers, Jon S. On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: > Jon - I of course reject your views o

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-28 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; } Jon - I of course reject your views of Peirce and your insistence that yours is the correct interpretation. I find such a claim to be unscientific and arrogant. You are too literal and you don't, in my view, absorb the f

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-28 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Helmut, List: Actually, your first quote below *does not* corroborate what Edwina wrote. Rather, in context Peirce was saying there that the Dynamic Object is not *necessarily *something that is outside the mind; it might be another thought, or a fictional character, or a command, as just a few ex

Aw: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-28 Thread Helmut Raulien
Edwina, Here are four quotes from the Commens Dictionary. The first corrobates what you wrote, that the d.o. is not outside of the mind and its experience, the second quote says that it is a part of reality, the third says, it is in itself, and the fourth says it is what final study would show it

Re: Aw: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-27 Thread Edwina Taborsky
Helmut - in my view, ALL material and conceptual existences are Signs. They ALL function within the triadic set of Relations: Object-Representamen-Interpretant. Therefore, there is no such thing as a Dynamic Object 'in itself', i.e., which exists outside of this interactive proc

Aw: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-27 Thread Helmut Raulien
List, Edwina, I think, that there are four kinds of dynamical objects, two of which do not change, one that may change, also due to the sign, and one that changes for sure with every sign that has it for dynamical object: Metaphysical laws and axioms (given they exist) do not change, events and c

Re: Aw: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-27 Thread Jerry Rhee
Dear list: rather ironic that the ultimate, immutable aim- the one that should accord with a free development of the agent's own esthetic quality- takes on the form of a carrot, no? Best, Jerry R On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 12:36 PM, Claudio Guerri wrote: > Mein lieber Helmut, List, > again answer

Re: Aw: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-27 Thread Claudio Guerri
Mein lieber Helmut, List, again answer between the lines with >>> (this was taught to me by T.A.Sebeok just at the beginning of e-mails) Helmut Raulien escribió el 27/03/2017 a las 13:14: Claudio, List, So it is a bit paradoxical: On one hand we should be aware, that we are carrot-chasing donk

Aw: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] semantic problem with the term

2017-03-27 Thread Helmut Raulien
Claudio, List,  So it is a bit paradoxical: On one hand we should be aware, that we are carrot-chasing donkeys, on the other hand we should not abandon the carrot chasing projects, inquiry. And we must respect other donkeys who are chasing different carrots. And, for not thinking that there are a