Re: Re: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Different Semeiotic Analyses (was tree-structure)

2020-05-03 Thread Gary Richmond
Auke, List, AvG: First of all, no offence taken. Glad to hear it as, of course, none was intended. AvB: This is a nice example of a intentional and a effectual representant standing asunder. I did not write 'nasty webmail' in response to the content of your mail. I would tend to agree with you

Re: Re: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Different Semeiotic Analyses (was tree-structure)

2020-05-03 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
John, List: I appreciate the frank recognition in the last sentence below that I am *not *"claiming to be a better semeiotician than Peirce was," simply by virtue of reaching a few different conclusions about semeiotic than he did. Likewise, I would never suggest that someone was claiming to be a

Re: Re: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Different Semeiotic Analyses (was tree-structure)

2020-05-03 Thread Auke van Breemen
Gary R, First of all, no offence taken. This is a nice example of a intentional and a effectual representant standing asunder. I did not write 'nasty webmail' in response to the content of your mail. Always nice to see a native writer toying around with words. Jon Awbry is a master at it. I di

Re: Re: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Different Semeiotic Analyses (was tree-structure)

2020-05-03 Thread Gary Richmond
Auke, I apologize for appearing to be 'nasty' in my recent post addressed to you. I didn't mean to be while, admittedly, meaning to "pull your leg" a bit as the English idiom would have it. I should have learned long ago that it's near impossible to get humor across in an email and clearly my smil

Re: Re: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Different Semeiotic Analyses (was tree-structure)

2020-05-03 Thread John F. Sowa
Edwina and Jon, Induction always begins with data -- a set of observations about some subject.  By finding analogies and commonalities among the observations, it derives a probable hypothesis about the subject matter.  Further testing is necessary to increase the probability and generalize the

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Different Semeiotic Analyses (was tree-structure)

2020-05-03 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Gary R - I'm not sure if the point is that one 'is' either focused on theory OR pragmatics. My view is that I don't see how one can be slotted into such an Either-Or scenario. That is, if one is interested primar

Fwd: Re: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Different Semeiotic Analyses (was tree-structure)

2020-05-03 Thread Auke van Breemen
Nasty webmail. Gary R, With that you do not earn the box. It are not my heat lightnings (see below the Hausman quote) you utilized. The qualisign aspect is a medad or collection of medads brought together by the mind in the pure icon, the icon being not caused by the medads themselves, but by

Re: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Different Semeiotic Analyses (was tree-structure)

2020-05-03 Thread Gary Richmond
Auke, list, What is funny -- in the sense not of your 'hilarious', but of my 'strange' -- is that well over a decade ago on this list I used the same example, an "im[p]ression of green the moment I look at the trees out of my window," (well, in truth, my impression(s) occurred as one late Spring a

Re: Re: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Different Semeiotic Analyses (was tree-structure)

2020-05-02 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }JAS - I think you've missed my point. I wasn't critiquing 'consistent terminology' or the three-step method of developing hypotheses. And I certainly don't see textual references as an inductive method of proving

Re: Re: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Different Semeiotic Analyses (was tree-structure)

2020-05-02 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Gary R - I think there are two issues here. We can see that the meaning of the Peircean terms remains debatable - since there is no 'full agreement' on the meaning of the terms. I don't know if there will ever be a final

Re: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Different Semeiotic Analyses (was tree-structure)

2020-05-02 Thread Gary Richmond
Jon Alan Schmidt concluded: We have to distinguish the quality *in itself* as a real possibility (1ns) from both its inherence in something that exists (2ns) and our physical sensation of it (also 2ns), as well as our perceptual judgments about it (3ns) and any subsequent reasoning about it (also

Re: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Different Semeiotic Analyses (was tree-structure)

2020-05-02 Thread Gary Richmond
Jon Alan Schmidt wrote: In my view--and evidently Peirce's, as well (CP 2.219-226, EP 2:263-366, 1903)--consistent terminology fosters greater clarity, especially when comparing results from different fields that "are talking about the same [or similar] processes." [And we can and should] mutuall

Re: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Different Semeiotic Analyses (was tree-structure)

2020-05-02 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
John, Auke, List: I agree that the conclusions of semeiotic are "eminently fallible," as Peirce himself described them. That is why we are not locked into treating *his *speculative grammar as rigid dogma but are free to make adjustments that we deem appropriate in accordance with the results of

Re: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Different Semeiotic Analyses (was tree-structure)

2020-05-02 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Edwina, List: As with any scientific inquiry, in speculative grammar we employ retroduction to formulate hypotheses, deduction to explicate them, and induction to evaluate them. I admittedly tend to concentrate mainly on the first two steps, but still proceed to the third one at times; e.g., to e

Re: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Different Semeiotic Analyses (was tree-structure)

2020-05-02 Thread a . breemen
John, Edwina, list, looking at the subject line: I did introduce the nonagons in my reply to Jon Alan because I think that besides discussing theory with the help of examples, in order to stay grounded, it is needed to look from what perspective and with what interest we discuss the terminolog

Re: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Different Semeiotic Analyses (was tree-structure)

2020-05-02 Thread John F. Sowa
Edwina, Gary F, Jon AS, ET> My question about 'pure theorizing' so to speak, also arises from the quote  below: "Now the whole process of development among the community of students of those formulations by abstractive observation and reasoning of the truths which must hold good of all signs u

Re: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Different Semeiotic Analyses (was tree-structure)

2020-05-02 Thread Edwina Taborsky
List My question about 'pure theorizing' so to speak, also arises from the quote below: "Now the whole process of development among the community of students of those formulations by abstractive observation and reasoning of the truths which must hold good of all signs