[peirce-l] Collier on Pragmatics

2006-02-01 Thread Clark Goble
Just a heads up to those interested. John Collier has up a very interesting paper on pragmatics. He notes that his approach is basically Peircean. Relative to the occasional discussion of Derrida's use of Peirce, I think that many of Collier's approaches and critiques can be seen i

[peirce-l] Collier on Pragmatics

2006-02-01 Thread Clark Goble
Just a heads up to those interested. John Collier has up a very interesting paper on pragmatics. He notes that his approach is basically Peircean. Relative to the occasional discussion of Derrida's use of Peirce, I think that many of Collier's approaches and critiques can be seen in Derr

[peirce-l] Re: NEW ELEMENTS: So what is it all about?

2006-02-01 Thread Arnold Shepperson
Whoops!  A small correction: I should have concluded by saying that I am UNABLE to say whether the students followed my example any better than before!   AS --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber archive@mail-archive.com

[peirce-l] Re: NEW ELEMENTS: So what is it all about?

2006-02-01 Thread Arnold Shepperson
Kirsti, Bernard   On the matter of Icons, mere icons, pure icons, and so on, I used the following example when explaining the icon to students:   Imagine you and a few friends are walking across a campus quadrangle, surrounded by familiar multi-storey buildings, familiar gardens, and the familiar b

[peirce-l] Re: NEW ELEMENTS: So what is it all about?

2006-02-01 Thread Kirsti Määttänen
Bernard, list 31.1.2006 kello 20:13, Bernard Morand kirjoitti BM: To continue the discussion, we find "pure icons" in the following passage of New Elements and "pure indices" will appear later. I mention this with regard to a precedent discussion between Joe and Jon relative to "pure symb

[peirce-l] Re: NEW ELEMENTS: So what is it all about?

2006-02-01 Thread Joseph Ransdell
That quotation from Socrates was not intended as an attack on lawyers, by the way!  I just noticed that it might be construed that way.  They didn't have lawyers then and that is just Jowett's mistaken translation.  The basic contrast in that passage is rather of the philosopher as the perso

[peirce-l] Re: NEW ELEMENTS: So what is it all about?

2006-02-01 Thread Gary Richmond
Kirsti, Bernard, list Caught up in a million and one pressing personal and profession matters, I won't for now be able to engage much in your mode of  inquiry, Kirsti (while I would like to experiment with it on-list soon when some deadlines for conference papers being reviewed, etc. are behin

[peirce-l] Re: NEW ELEMENTS: So what is it all about?

2006-02-01 Thread Joseph Ransdell
Kirsti and list:   Kirsti says (full message appended below):   First: Thank you, Joe very much for the NEW ELEMENTS & the incentive for a detailed discussion. I've just read the first part of the mails on the thread & the text, with keen interest, though only once.What I wish to do, is to

[peirce-l] Re: NEW ELEMENTS: So what is it all about?

2006-02-01 Thread Skagestad, Peter
Bernard, I have read Thinks, and I thought Lodge goes much easier on AI professors than on English professors. Maybe he has mellowed with age or maybe, as you suggest, he is simply much more familiar with English professors. No offense to either AI professors or Enlish professors on the list,

[peirce-l] Re: NEW ELEMENTS: So what is it all about?

2006-02-01 Thread Bernard Morand
A 13:51 31/01/2006 -0500, Skagestad, Peter a écrit : Bernard, Gary, and list, The English wording is "Every decoding is another encoding". It is uttered repeatedly in "Small World" by the fictional Professor Zapf, who references Peirce as the father of semiotics, so David Lodge had at least h

[peirce-l] Correction

2006-02-01 Thread Kirsti Määttänen
Folks, I'm sorry I forgot to delete the part below my signature from the mail I just sent. Kirsti Kirsti Määttänen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[peirce-l] Re: NEW ELEMENTS: So what is it all about?

2006-02-01 Thread Kirsti Määttänen
List, First: Thank you, Joe very much for the NEW ELEMENTS & the incentive for a detailed discussion. I've just read the first part of the mails on the thread & the text, with keen interest, though only once. What I wish to do, is to stick with the question "What is it all about?" for a while. I