Re: [peirce-l] On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic

2011-11-06 Thread Jon Awbrey
Gary, Irving, Steven, and All, One of the continuing problems that we have in reading Peirce is the fact that logical atomists, logical positivists, and later writers tend to attach rather different meanings to words like "formal" "logical atom", and "positive" than Peirce did himself. The meani

Re: [peirce-l] On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic

2011-11-06 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
Irving, Jon, List: Thanks for your posts on CSP and Logic. Irving: after reading your recent papers and your post here, I am curious about a two questions: Do you have a crisp exposition on what factors separate CSP's notion of logic from Hilbert's formalizations? Do you have a personal defi

Re: [peirce-l] On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic

2011-11-07 Thread Jon Awbrey
Jerry, I remember NEM listing for something like a King's Ransom, like a lot of books out of Hyperborea. I was lucky enough to find all but the 1st volume in a used bookstore years ago, but I do not know if there are any online alternatives today. The analogy that connects the arity of relation

Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic”

2011-11-07 Thread Jon Awbrey
JR = Joe Ransdell SE = Steven Ericsson-Zenith Joseph Ransdell, "On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic", http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/aboutcsp/ransdell/paradigm.htm JR: The thesis of my paper is that it is doubtful that any distinction should be drawn between empirica

Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic”

2011-11-07 Thread Jon Awbrey
Peirce used the word "formal" in a couple of senses, the first of which is closer to its general meaning of "concerned with form", and here he can mean either the forms of objects or the forms of syntax, whereas the tradition following Russell tends to focus on syntax exclusively. In that sense of

Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic”

2011-11-07 Thread Benjamin Udell
Papers_ v. 6, paragraph 327. Best, Ben - Original Message - From: Jon Awbrey To: PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 12:30 AM Subject: Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic” Peirce used the word "formal" in a couple of senses, th

Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic”

2011-11-07 Thread Jon Awbrey
t; > - c. 1909 MS, _Collected Papers_ v. 6, paragraph 327. Best, Ben - Original Message - From: Jon Awbrey To: PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 12:30 AM Subject: Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic” Peirce used the wor

Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic”

2011-11-08 Thread Jon Awbrey
* Comments on the Peirce List slow reading of Joseph Ransdell, "On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic", http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/aboutcsp/ransdell/paradigm.htm Peirce List, I copied some of my earlier comments on the current slow reading to the Conceptual Graphs

Re: [peirce-l] On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic

2011-11-08 Thread Irving
In response to posts and queries from Steven, Jon, and Jerry, (1) Regarding Steven's initial post: My initial discomfort stemmed from associating Hilbert's remark with the Peircean idea of logic as an "experiential or positive science", since Hilbert as a strict formalist did not regard mathemati

Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic”

2011-11-08 Thread Jon Awbrey
* Comments on the Peirce List slow reading of Joseph Ransdell, "On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic", http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/aboutcsp/ransdell/paradigm.htm Peirce List, Here is John Sowa's second reply to comments shared on the CG List: On 11/8/2011 12:18 AM

Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic”

2011-11-08 Thread Jon Awbrey
* Comments on the Peirce List slow reading of Joseph Ransdell, "On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic", http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/aboutcsp/ransdell/paradigm.htm Peirce List, CG List, It's a little too late for Halloween, but probably about time to revisit our old

Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic”

2011-11-08 Thread Steven Ericsson-Zenith
Dear List, I am presenting a new proposed computing paradigm "Computing With Structure" based upon my work at the Supercomputing 2011 Disruptive Technologies exhibit next week. Don't panic, this exhibit is aimed at technologies that may have an impact on large scale computing architectures and

Re: [peirce-l] On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic

2011-11-08 Thread Steven Ericsson-Zenith
Dear Irving, Thank you for the correction regarding the source of Hilbert's remarks. I believe I read it in Unger's translation of The Foundations of Geometry, perhaps in the foreword or annotations, but I still have to check this. I assume that Hilbert is making a remark that appeals to Berkel

Re: [peirce-l] On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic

2011-11-08 Thread Irving
icsson-Zenith Subject: Re: [peirce-l] On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic To: Irving Dear Irving, Thank you for the correction regarding the source of Hilbert's remarks. I believe I read it in Unger's translation of The Foundations of Geometry, perhaps in the for

Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic”

2011-11-08 Thread Jon Awbrey
* Comments on the Peirce List slow reading of Joseph Ransdell, "On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic", http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/aboutcsp/ransdell/paradigm.htm Peirce List, CG List, Without meaning to jump ahead of the slow reading, let me just give a preview of

Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic”

2011-11-09 Thread Jon Awbrey
* Comments on the Peirce List slow reading of Joseph Ransdell, "On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic", http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/aboutcsp/ransdell/paradigm.htm Peirce List, Here is the reply I made to John Sowa's earlier remarks on the CG List: I am not saying t

Re: [peirce-l] On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic

2011-11-09 Thread Jim Willgoose
, notices and information. Jim Willgoose > Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 19:50:10 -0500 > From: ianel...@iupui.edu > Subject: Re: [peirce-l] On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic > To: PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU > > Dear Steven, > > There is a growing body of sch

Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic”

2011-11-12 Thread Jon Awbrey
Kirsti, Another word for "precept" is "maxim". The distinction between concept and precept brings us again to the distinction between descriptive and normative. -- facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/JonnyCache inquiry list: http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/ mwb: http://www.mywikibiz.co

Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic”

2011-11-13 Thread Määttänen Kirsti
Jon, Thanks for bringing into my attention 'maxim', in relation to 'precept'. I'm not so sure, though, that 'precept' and 'maxim' are interchangeable. So-called synonyms seldom, if ever, are. The relation between synonyms I view as something depicted in Venn's diagrams. There is an overlap, bu

Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic”

2011-11-13 Thread Jon Awbrey
Kirsti, I was of course thinking of the pragmatic maxim, which is a regulative principle whose function is to guide the conduct of thought toward the object of its aim, advising the addressee on a way to “attain clearness of apprehension”. http://knol.google.com/k/pragmatic-maxim That is why Pe

Re: [peirce-l] On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic

2011-11-13 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
Irving, Jon, List; >From Jon's Post: "Peirce's most detailed definition of a sign relation, namely, the one given in 2 variants in NEM 4, 20-21 & 54." "Logic will here be defined as formal semiotic. A definition of a sign will be given which no more refers to human thought than does the definit

Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic”

2011-11-14 Thread Jon Awbrey
Jerry, As far as grammar goes, I read "semiotic" as formed on the pattern of "logic" and I read "semiotics" as formed on the pattern of "mathematics". US speakers typically abbreviate "mathematics" as "math" while UK speakers call it "maths". I have no idea what to make of that. The definition

Re: [peirce-l] On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic

2011-11-18 Thread Irving
ing investigated. Irving - Message from jerry_lr_chand...@me.com ----- Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 23:16:40 -0500 From: Jerry LR Chandler Reply-To: Jerry LR Chandler Subject: Re: [peirce-l] On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic To: PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU Irv

Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic”

2011-11-22 Thread Jon Awbrey
* Comments on the Peirce List slow reading of Joseph Ransdell, "On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic", http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/aboutcsp/ransdell/paradigm.htm One of the things we do in empirical science is collect data. Data is often collected in the form of re

Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic”

2011-11-22 Thread Jon Awbrey
Claudio, List ... I realize that many of us have been through these sorts of discussions many times before, so let me just highlight what I consider to be some of the most important points. 1. We must not confuse the roles in a sign relation or the components of a sign relational 3-tuple, tha

Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic”

2011-11-24 Thread Benjamin Udell
Forwarded to peirce-l, partly as a test. Post intended for peirce-l from Claudio Guerri. - Best, Ben Mensaje original Asunto: Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic” Fecha: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:35:58 -0300 De: Claudio

Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic”

2011-11-24 Thread Jon Awbrey
* Comments on the Peirce List slow reading of Joseph Ransdell, "On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic", http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/aboutcsp/ransdell/paradigm.htm Re: Comments by Auke van Breemen (AB) Auke & All, By way of recalling our present engagement, let's re

Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic”

2011-11-25 Thread Steven Ericsson-Zenith
Dear Jon, It's important to note that in his opening statement JR is not making a general statement about the distinctions of empirical and non-empirical, but rather is making the statement that *in semeiotic theory* the distinction is meaningless because to draw the distinction causes an undue

Re: [peirce-l] On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic

2011-11-25 Thread Steven Ericsson-Zenith
On Nov 18, 2011, at 4:51 AM, Irving wrote: > ... > All of this having been said, the best answer I can give is that, the > "points, lines, and planes" and "tables, chairs, and beer mugs" remark > aside, Hilbert would give different axiomatizations for different parts > of mathematics. That is to s

Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic”

2011-11-25 Thread Jon Awbrey
* Comments on the Peirce List slow reading of Joseph Ransdell, "On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic", http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/aboutcsp/ransdell/paradigm.htm Re: Irving Anellis, Sefan Berwing, Auke van Breemen, Jerry Chandler, Michael DeLaurentis, Steven Er

Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic”

2011-11-25 Thread Steven Ericsson-Zenith
An adjustment to my email from last night. I wrongly used the term "meaningless," slipping into old habits. The distinction, JR suggests, produces a meaning (by the more rigorous use of that term): the separation of concerns that concerns him. I should have said: *in semeiotic theory* the dist

Re: [peirce-l] ³On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic²

2011-11-25 Thread Benjamin Udell
Re: [peirce-l] "On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic"Neal, list, Peirce's views on the classification evolved over time. I don't know of a single source with fully elaborated examples of each and every kind of sign. I hope other peirce-listers can chi

Re: [peirce-l] ³On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic²

2011-11-25 Thread Benjamin Udell
Re: [peirce-l] "On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic"CORRECTION, sorry. - Best, Ben - Original Message - From: Benjamin Udell To: Neal Bruss ; PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 4:07 PM Subject: Re: [peirce-l] ³On the Paradigm of

Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic”

2011-11-25 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
List: On Nov 25, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Jon Awbrey wrote: > The sign classifications that we commonly see discussed in semiotics > are all classifications of different types of sign relation elements, > and not classifications of sign relations themselves, which is a far > more difficult task, sinc

Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic”

2011-11-25 Thread Jon Awbrey
Jerry LR Chandler wrote: List: On Nov 25, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Jon Awbrey wrote: The sign classifications that we commonly see discussed in semiotics are all classifications of different types of sign relation elements, and not classifications of sign relations themselves, which is a far more

Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic”

2011-11-26 Thread Jon Awbrey
* Comments on the Peirce List slow reading of Joseph Ransdell, "On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic", http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/aboutcsp/ransdell/paradigm.htm Re: Comments by Auke van Breemen Auke, I thought it best to go back and recover the context before att

Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic”

2011-11-27 Thread Jon Awbrey
* Comments on the Peirce List slow reading of Joseph Ransdell, "On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic", http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/aboutcsp/ransdell/paradigm.htm Re: Comments by Auke van Breemen and Claudio Guerri The question arose whether there is a uniquely dete

Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic”

2011-12-04 Thread Jon Awbrey
Steven (& All), I am sympathetic with any effort to bring the humanities and the full variety of the sciences, special or unspecial, into cross-cultural dialogue with each other. As a matter of fact, Susan Awbrey and I have written at length on the scholarship of integration and the architectonic

Re: [peirce-l] ?On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic?

2011-12-04 Thread Irving
w how Renaissance artists used projective geometry to obtain visual perspective in their work. - Message from jawb...@att.net - Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 07:18:24 -0500 From: Jon Awbrey Reply-To: Jon Awbrey Subject: Re: [peirce-l] ?On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for S

Re: [peirce-l] "On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic"

2011-12-05 Thread Jon Awbrey
how how Renaissance artists used projective > geometry to obtain visual perspective in their work. > > > > - Message from jawb...@att.net - > Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 07:18:24 -0500 > From: Jon Awbrey > Reply-To: Jon Awbrey > Subject: Re: [peirce-l]

Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic”

2011-12-05 Thread Steven Ericsson-Zenith
On Dec 4, 2011, at 4:18 AM, Jon Awbrey wrote: > ... > Keeping in mind the various dimensions of experience, I took some pains > to give an "even-handed" account of the tensions involved in integration: > > >> On the one hand I am much in favor of seeking deeper-lying continuities ... > >> > >> On

Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic”

2011-12-05 Thread Steven Ericsson-Zenith
A one word revision to my previous post: On Dec 4, 2011, at 4:18 AM, Jon Awbrey wrote: > ... > Keeping in mind the various dimensions of experience, I took some pains > to give an "even-handed" account of the tensions involved in integration: > >>> On the one hand I am much in favor of seeking d

Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic”

2011-12-05 Thread Jon Awbrey
* Comments on the Peirce List slow reading of Joseph Ransdell, "On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic", http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/aboutcsp/ransdell/paradigm.htm Peircers, I would like to return to an earlier point in the discussion and continue with the thoughts t

Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic”

2011-12-07 Thread Jon Awbrey
* Comments on the Peirce List slow reading of Joseph Ransdell, "On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic", http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/aboutcsp/ransdell/paradigm.htm IA: Once again, there is a complex of related dichotomies that van Heijenoort applied to distinguish

Re: [peirce-l] "On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic"

2011-12-07 Thread Michael J. DeLaurentis
paque contexts.] -Original Message- From: C S Peirce discussion list [mailto:PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU] On Behalf Of Jon Awbrey Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 9:40 AM To: PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU Subject: Re: [peirce-l] "On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic"

Re: [peirce-l] ?On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic?

2011-12-07 Thread Irving
I'm not certain that I fully understand the question here. These two disparate sets of properties are part of an interacting complex that, for JvH, typify and help distinguish the traditional logic (in which the "Booleans" or algebraic logicians are included, insofar as they putatively do no more

Re: [peirce-l] ?On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic?

2011-12-07 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
Irving, List: A well articulated response that motivates me to push the ill-formed questions yet another step. If the first primitive binary separation of the primitive notion of a meaningful logic is Aristotelian (Boolean) / Fregean, then where would one place the Stoic notion of Antecedent /

Re: [peirce-l] ?On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic?

2011-12-07 Thread Irving
ld be much better prepared than I to handle any philosophical issues that might be involved. Irving - Message from jerry_lr_chand...@me.com ----- Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:39:40 -0500 From: Jerry LR Chandler Reply-To: Jerry LR Chandler Subject: Re: [peirce-l] ?On the Paradigm of Expe

Re: [peirce-l] "On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic"

2011-12-07 Thread Irving
m michael...@comcast.net - Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 10:39:51 -0500 From: "Michael J. DeLaurentis" Reply-To: "Michael J. DeLaurentis" Subject: RE: [peirce-l] "On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic" To: 'Jon Awbrey' , PEIRCE-

Re: [peirce-l] "On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic"

2011-12-07 Thread Michael J. DeLaurentis
- From: C S Peirce discussion list [mailto:PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU] On Behalf Of Irving Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 6:24 PM To: PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU Subject: Re: [peirce-l] "On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic" Certainly model theory is a general theo