Following is an offline note endorsing my note that endorses Jerry's note
about the upcoming talk on Friday, which emphasizes the importance of Peirce's
writings for our time (the 21st C).
Basic point: Peirce was writing for the future. Those of us who value his
contributions should
John, List:
I agree with John regarding the urgent relevance of Peirce to this century.
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that time, among other things, I co-founded a billion dollar cybersecurity
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Michale
Thank you for this excellent post. You are exactly right
Peirce's agapastic semiosis is a dynamic and generative process- and it
explains not merely the increasing complexity of the physicochemical and
biological realms [which are, indeed, complex adaptive systems,] but also,
Jon, List,
See the recent notes about the ZOOM talk on Friday. It is essential for Peirce
scholars to bring his philosophy and its applications to the attention of
philosopher, scientists, and engineers in the 21st century -- Peirce worked in
all three professions.
The word 'tone' is a
Jerry
This section is, I believe,from 1868 - and there are more descriptions of the
categories elsewhere., eg. 8/328 1904.
The three terms you reference - quality, relation, representation] can be
understood to refer to Firstness, Secondness and Thirdness.The categories, are
‘modes of being’,
Dear Edwinia, List
> On Apr 7, 2024, at 1:09 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote:
>
> And I also am a strong supporter of Peirce’s three categories, with the
> interplay between Firstnerss [ randomnness, chance, freedom]; steady-state
> interaction [Secondness] and the development of new habits of
Jon, List,
We acknowledge that Peirce introduced the trichotomy (Tone Token Type) in the
Prolegomena article of 1906, and his choice of the name 'Tone' was based on one
example, "a tone of voice". After two more years of intensive study, analysis,
and writings, he presented a more precise
Hello Michael and John,
Nice to hear from you on the List, Michael.
I agree with your suggestions in (1) and (2). How might we further draw out
some of Peirce’s suggestions for explaining the evolution of cooperation in a
wide variety of systems, ranging from ecosystems to human economic and
John, List:
JFS: A tone or mark is not "opposed to a token". It is that part of an
image that determines it as a token of some type. The image, the mark, and
the token are the same physical "thing". They are not three separable
things.
Whatever these sentences are supposed to be describing, it
