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

2017-03-31 Thread Edwina Taborsky
Helmut - you asked: Do you think, that also an immediate interpretant and a final one may become a dynamical object? My guess is, that immediate interpretants become concepts, dynamical interpretants become material things, and final interpretants become topics that have happened or be

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

2017-03-29 Thread Edwina Taborsky
Helmut - yes, my apologies, you are quite right about the benefits of using different terms. My problem was that I wasn't sure what YOU meant by the term 'fact'. Edwina -- This message is virus free, protected by Primus - Canada's largest alternative telecommunications provider.

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

2017-03-27 Thread Edwina Taborsky
Claudio - I'm not sure if I would agree that we can never change the Dynamic Object. Since semiosis is an interactive and continuous process, then I would say that our semiosic interactions are continuously changing 'that with which we interact'. As an example, if I take a spri

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

2017-03-27 Thread Claudio Guerri
Edwina, Helmut, List, I think that a very good aspect of Peirce's proposal is that there is no 'THE TRUTH' anymore. Signs can only construct other signs (images, texts, speeches,etc.), perhaps, sometimes, "a more developed sign" (CP 2.228). But never a definitive 'final explanation'... and this