[peirce-l] Re: The roots of speech-act theory in the New List

2006-09-13 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jim, [Jim Willgoose:] I am playing at trying to reject it. ("poss.Bs poss.~Bs") I have accepted it more often than not. Now you tell me. [Jim] I also understand the difference between discussing formal properties that hold between propositions (modal or non-modal) and forming a "1st

[peirce-l] Until later (was Re: The roots of speech-act theory in the New List)

2006-09-13 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jim, list, This remains interesting, but, generally, this forum is too addictive for me! I have to get on with practical matters which are, at this point, getting over my head. So I'm unsubscribing for a few months. Thanks for people's interest, Gary, Joe, Jim P., Jim W.,Bernard, and any

[peirce-l] Re: The roots of speech-act theory in the New List

2006-09-12 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jim, [Jim Willgoose] Peirce says, "Very many writers assert that everything is logically possible which involves no contradiction. Let us call that sort of logical possibility, essential, or formal, logical possibility. It is not the only logical possibility; for in this sense, two

[peirce-l] Re: The roots of speech-act theory in the New List

2006-09-12 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jim, [Jim Willgoose] (I responded to your later message first.) I agree with a lot here.The idea that there are objective possibilities that are true, regardless of our knowledge, has beenarguably the central issue in discussions of philosophical realism for 2500 years. The idea of

[peirce-l] Re: The roots of speech-act theory in the New List

2006-09-12 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jim, [Jim Willgoose] Well, I guess the passage doesn't discuss modal propositions if you disallow rephrasing "this stove is possibly black" with 'It is possible that "this stove is black."' There is certainly a logic of possibility at work.Why aren' t these modal propositions?It is just

[peirce-l] Re: The roots of speech-act theory in the New List

2006-09-11 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jim, [Jim Willgoose] The proposition "She is possibly pregnant" is easily understood by all. I overstated my case. (nor is their a potential contradiction) But I think it masks a problem for the theory of cognition, and furthermore,not all ordinary expressions are as clear as they might

[peirce-l] Re: The roots of speech-act theory in the New List

2006-09-11 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jim, I should add, upon re-reading your comments, that the idea of possibility that I've been discussing has pretty much been in terms of ignorance, but it seems to me that the terms don't need to be essentially in terms of ignorance. If one is talking about a future event, then the reason

[peirce-l] Re: The roots of speech-act theory in the New List

2006-09-11 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jim, [Jim Willgoose] There is a difference between treating possibility epistemically or treating it ontologically. "Possibly black' and "possibly non-black" are (sub) contraries, indeterminate with respect to a state of information. But since we are considering "this stove," and not

[peirce-l] Re: The roots of speech-act theory in the New List

2006-09-08 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jim, [Jim Willgoose] You say, "The question is WHETHER the stove is black -- yes, no, novelly, probably, optimally, if only if..., etc. What is required for assertion or proposition or judging or even conceiving the situation is that the mind can apprehend whether the stove is, isn't, may

[peirce-l] Re: The roots of speech-act theory in the New List

2006-09-07 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jim, list, [Jim Wilgoose] It is a little difficult to assess matters since I have been focusing on the NLC and you are looking more broadly at the corpus. You say you do it differently. Nevertheless,I will try to locate a problem area. [Jim] You say, [Ben] The disparity of Peirce's

[peirce-l] Re: The composite photograph metaphor

2006-09-03 Thread Benjamin Udell
Bill, list, Peirce does disgtinguish between direct and immediate. See Joe's post from Feb. 15, 2006, which I reproduce below. It's not very clear to me at the mmoment what Peirce means by without the aid of any subsidiary instruments or operation. -- which is part of how he means direct. I

[peirce-l] Re: The composite photograph metaphor

2006-08-30 Thread Benjamin Udell
6 Aug 2006 18:58:50 -0400 "Benjamin Udell"writes: [Ben] Charles, list, I guess it's hard for me to let any remarks about my ideas go by without response, but I still am inclined, as I've put it, to "go quiet." Charles wrote, [Charles] [I would say that Be

[peirce-l] Re: The composite photograph metaphor

2006-08-21 Thread Benjamin Udell
Joe, list, Joe, I don't know why it seems to you like I'm suddenly releasing a "tirade of verbal dazzle." The prose there looks pretty mundane to me and I certainly didn't mean it intimidate you. Generally when I write such prose I'm just trying to present links in arguments, keep from

[peirce-l] Re: The composite photograph metaphor

2006-08-21 Thread Benjamin Udell
Gary, Charles, Joe, Jim, Jacob, list, [Ben] Object and signs are roles. They are logical roles, and their distinction is a logical distinction [Gary] As I see it, it's not that simple because of the dynamical object, the fact of inter-communication as well as internal inference, etc. I

[peirce-l] Re: The composite photograph metaphor

2006-08-20 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jim, Charles, Gary, Joe, Jacob, list, (Let me note parenthetically that, in my previous post, I used the word "mind" in a number of places where I probably should have used the word "intelligence," given the far-reaching sense which the word "mind" can take on ina Peircean context.) Jim

[peirce-l] Re: The composite photograph metaphor

2006-08-19 Thread Benjamin Udell
Charles, Joe, Gary, Jim, Jacob, list, [Charles] Following up on Joe's saying: [Joe] "If I am understanding you correctly you are saying that all semeiosis is at least incipiently self-reflexive or self-reflective or in other words self-controlled AND that the adequate philosophical

[peirce-l] Re: The composite photograph metaphor

2006-08-19 Thread Benjamin Udell
Charles, Joe, Gary, Jim, Jacob, list, The occasion here is that Charles wrote, "I am still trying to find out if I have any grasp at all of what you think the (Interpretant -- Sign -- Object) relation omits." The idea that one can't even grasp what I'm saying leads me to make one last try.

[peirce-l] Re: The composite photograph metaphor

2006-08-16 Thread Benjamin Udell
Charles, Joe, Gary, Jim, list, Currently, I'm focused on answering Joe's recentest post to me, particularly in regard to the question of how to argue that some very complicated complexus of objects, signs, and interpretants will not amount to a verification. My focus there has as much to do

[peirce-l] Re: The composite photograph metaphor

2006-08-13 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jacob, Joe, Gary, Jim, list, [Jacob] Theres been a lot of debate on this issue of verification, and it almost sounds like patience is being tried. If I could just give my input about one remark from the last posting; I hope it helps some. [Jacob] Ben wrote: I dont know how Peirce and others

[peirce-l] Re: The composite photograph metaphor

2006-08-12 Thread Benjamin Udell
Joe, Gary, Jim, list, [Joe] Ben Says: [Ben] I don't know how Peirce and others have missed the distinct and irreducible logical role of verification. I keep an eye open regarding that question, that's about all. I don't have some hidden opinion on the question. Tom Short argued that there

[peirce-l] Re: The composite photograph metaphor

2006-08-12 Thread Benjamin Udell
Gary, Joe, Jim, list, (continued,3rd part) [Gary] Again, you maintain that the "logically determinational role" of "such recognition" cannot be denied and yet I can't even find it! For me it is less a matter of its being denied than my not even missing it (clearly you've fixed your own

[peirce-l] Re: The composite photograph metaphor

2006-08-12 Thread Benjamin Udell
Joe, Gary, Jim, list, I forgot that I had wanted to make a remark on the Pragmatic Maxim in the present connection. [Joe] I forgot to say something about the supposed problem of distinguishing sense from nonsense. That's what the pragmatic maxim is all about, isn't it? The Pragmatic

[peirce-l] Re: The composite photograph metaphor

2006-08-11 Thread Benjamin Udell
Gary, Joe, Jim, list, (continued, 2rd part) [Gary] It does seem most likely and natural that there are a number of corrections and additions to be made in regard to Peirce's theories. For example, Ben points to the need for contemporary research fields to find their places within Peirce's

[peirce-l] Re: MS 399.663f On the sign as surrogate

2006-07-29 Thread Benjamin Udell
Bill, Jim, list, [Bill] I pretty well agree with the following two paragraphs [by Jim, much further down now -- Ben]. I'd like to make some friendly amendments, however. I don't think one sign carries more evidential weight than another, but then I'm not clear on what you mean because I

[peirce-l] Re: MS 399.663f On the sign as surrogate

2006-07-29 Thread Benjamin Udell
this, but I can find nothing in my notes that says where that passage is. Does anyone else recall this, I wonder, or have I merely hallucinated it?) Joe Ransdell - Original Message - From: Benjamin Udell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peirce Discussion Forum peirce-l@lyris.ttu.edu Sent: Friday, July 28

[peirce-l] Re: MS 399.663f On the sign as surrogate

2006-07-28 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jim, list, [Ben] That signs and interpretations convey meaning, not experience or acquaintance with their objects, is not only Peirce's view but also the common idea of most people. For instance, most people might agree that expertise can sometimes be gained from books about their subject,

[peirce-l] Re: MS 399.663f On the sign as surrogate

2006-07-27 Thread Benjamin Udell
Joe, list, I thought I was so concise that it was okay to pull the topic in my favorite direction, since it seemed brief. But I have to make some additions and corrections. Best, Ben - Original Message - From: Benjamin Udell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peirce Discussion Forum peirce-l

[peirce-l] Re: MS 399.663f On the sign as surrogate

2006-07-27 Thread Benjamin Udell
Joe, list, Thank you for your response, Joe. Comments interspersed below. - Original Message - From: Joseph Ransdell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peirce Discussion Forum peirce-l@lyris.ttu.edu Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 1:29 PM Subject: [peirce-l] Re: MS 399.663f On the sign as surrogate

[peirce-l] Re: MS 399.663f On the sign as surrogate

2006-07-25 Thread Benjamin Udell
Joe, list, The transcription of Peirce's re-write of the On a New List of Categories is exciting and valuable. For one thing, at last now we know what happened to the categories of Being and Substance. They're still there; he just no longer calls them categories. I've been kind of distracted

[peirce-l] Re: The Guerri graph about some sign relations.

2006-07-15 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jim, list, You got me thinking this time! Your comment below raises another related thought: I agree about nummbers as othernesses. Other is not unlike an ordinal form of the phrase more. What I meant to suggest in my earlier remarks was that other was akin to the notion of quantity as

[peirce-l] Re: The Guerri graph about some sign relations.

2006-07-14 Thread Benjamin Udell
[peirce-l] Re: Sinsign, Legisign, Qualisign - help!Wilfred, My changing an other to another was merely a morphological correction. It's merely a rule in English. I'm not sure why it's a rule. Maybe it's because of the pronunciation. The n' in an is felt to be part of the other. For instance,

[peirce-l] Re: The Guerri graph about some sign relations.

2006-07-14 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jim, I don't think that in fact you _would_ say "an...other serving" in order to mean "another kind of serving." I think that you're drawing right now on the sense of "other" in a sentence like "He was different, other" -- which is an unusual use of "other" but isclear enough to sustain its

[peirce-l] Re: Sinsign, Legisign, Qualisign - help!

2006-07-04 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jim, list, I'm not sure at this point what more limited conclusion it is that we're talking about! Generally speaking, I don't have a view on any logical valence numbers's being sufficient or necessary for all higher-valence relations. But I'm a bit doubtful that Peirce's trichotomism

[peirce-l] Re: Sinsign, Legisign, Qualisign - help!

2006-06-29 Thread Benjamin Udell
Claudio, Patrick, list, That object for which truth stands doesn't sound fully like Peirce. But Peirce did say that truth is of a predicate, proposition, assertion, etc. ; a true predicate corresponds to its object. Inquiry seeks to arrive at true signs about the real. 66~~~ ('A Sketch of

[peirce-l] Re: Sinsign, Legisign, Qualisign - help!

2006-06-29 Thread Benjamin Udell
Interesting remarks, including but not limited to those by Peirce. Maybe I should add that I find it difficult to believe that anyone has actually been able to read all of the way through Calvino's practical joke of a book! It's also difficult to believe that anyone eats all the way through a

[peirce-l] Re: Syntax and grammar of the signs

2006-06-25 Thread Benjamin Udell
Robert, list, Robert's "The Syntax of a Class of Signs" (scroll down to see) is interesting. Robert might helpfully clarify a few things. 1. Robert's conclusion is "We can define the syntax of a classe of signs as the part of the lattice of the ten classes of signs situated below this

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-22 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jean-Marc, list It is unfortunate that Peirce used the terms 'First', 'Second' and 'Third' in the place of ordinals when he used the same vocabulary for the categories. In the texts that you chose the terms do not refer to categories, they simply refer to 3 things presented in a given

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-22 Thread Benjamin Udell
Aw Jim, you're a trouble maker! 66~~ *A _Sign_, or _Representamen_, is a First which stands in such genuine triadic relation to a Second, called its _Object_, as to be capable of detemining a Third, called its _Interpretant, to assume the same triadic relation to its Object in

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-21 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jean-Marc, list, I don't even agree in the end with Peirce's classification but it's pretty obvious that whether one partially or totally orders the 10 classes depends on the criteria. And it's pretty obvious that the trichotomies are ordered (or orderable) in a Peircean categorial way,

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-21 Thread Benjamin Udell
in the series monistic, dualistic). Best, Ben Udell - Original Message - From: Benjamin Udell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peirce Discussion Forum peirce-l@lyris.ttu.edu Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 11:36 AM Subject: [peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2) Jean-Marc, list, I

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-21 Thread Benjamin Udell
Joe, list, I would add a heuristic value to the mnemonic value which Joe discusses. The diagrams can bring patterns to light which we might otherwise miss. I think that Gary will want to address this, but I'll resist the opportunity to steal his thunder. More generally, I think that Joe

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-21 Thread Benjamin Udell
Forum peirce-l@lyris.ttu.edu Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 1:48 PM Subject: [peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2) Benjamin Udell wrote: Jean-Marc, list, I don't even agree in the end with Peirce's classification but it's pretty obvious that whether one partially or totally

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-21 Thread Benjamin Udell
peirce-l@lyris.ttu.edu Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 2:19 PM Subject: [peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2) Benjamin Udell wrote: Jean-Marc, I spoke of the three trichotomies, not the five or six or ten. If you don't address what's said, why do you bother sending posts

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-21 Thread Benjamin Udell
. Far from overlooking it, I responded to it, and am still awaiting Robert's reply. I append it directly below. Best, Ben Udell - Original Message - From: Benjamin Udell To: Peirce Discussion Forum Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 12:28 PM Subject: [peirce-l] Re: redundancies of trichotomies

[peirce-l] Re: Sinsign, Legisign, Qualisign - help!

2006-06-19 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jerry, Gary, list, A number of recent posts have addressed the topics of: On Jun 19, 2006, at 1:05 AM, Peirce Discussion Forum digest wrote: Re: Sinsign, Legisign, Qualisign I am seeking help in understanding the importance of these terms to individual scholars. The definitions are

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-18 Thread Benjamin Udell
hought Hartshorne and Weiss were making some sort of mistake in their account of what Peirce is saying. I have not yet attempted to find out why I thought this is so, but I will try to do that now to see if there is anything in that..Joe Ransdell- Original Message - From: "Benjami

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-18 Thread Benjamin Udell
es on sign relations in Peirce. Gary Benjamin Udell wrote: Joe, list, It will be interesting to find out what you thought was wrong about what the editors were saying. Again, thank you for your efforts in this! --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber archive@mail-archive.com

[peirce-l] Re: representing the ten classes of signs (corrected)

2006-06-17 Thread Benjamin Udell
Joe, Vinicius, Robert, list, My initial reaction was that Peirce had added the numbers but then I came generally to the same conclusions as Joe. It sure would be nice to have a color copy. I tend to think that at least the line-boxes themselves were drawn by Peirce (the chart _is_ on graph

[peirce-l] Re: representing the ten classes of signs (corrected)

2006-06-17 Thread Benjamin Udell
You're welcome, Joe. Before you go, do you have a clearer view of the words written in the third set of boxes? Here's what it looked to me like it was saying: Best, Ben - Original Message - From: Joseph Ransdell To: Peirce Discussion Forum Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 10:25

[peirce-l] Re: representing the ten classes of signs (corrected)

2006-06-17 Thread Benjamin Udell
to stop for breakfast first! Joe - Original Message - From: Benjamin Udell To: Peirce Discussion Forum Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 9:38 AMSubject: [peirce-l] Re: representing the ten classes of signs (corrected) You're welcome, Joe. Before you go, do you have a clearer view

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-17 Thread Benjamin Udell
Image came through beautifully! Look carefully at the MS799.2 triangle of boxes and you can that the numbers are change from an earlier set of numbers. I originally thought that the little earlier numeral 8 was an extra numeral 3 CURRENT: 1 ~ 5 ~ 8 ~ 10 ~ 2 ~ 6 ~ 9 ~~ 3 ~ 7 ~~~ 4 EARLIER:

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-17 Thread Benjamin Udell
work, Joe! Thanks for these images of Peirce's own writing. Best, Ben - Original Message - From: Benjamin Udell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peirce Discussion Forum peirce-l@lyris.ttu.edu Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 2:01 PM Subject: [peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2) Image

[peirce-l] Re: Sinsign, Legisign, Qualisign

2006-06-16 Thread Benjamin Udell
Wilfred wrote, "List, "I did not know the Digital Peirce online site before. " I should just send this to every new peirce-lister. Additions corrections welcome. I've checked these links, they're all live, though some of the URLs seem to be the result of recent changes. - Ben Udell -

[peirce-l] Re: Sinsign, Legisign, Qualisign

2006-06-15 Thread Benjamin Udell
the word “red” more as being a qualisign, which then would also fit the last sentence below. To me the word “red” can not be a sinsign since it is not an actual existing thing or event. And to me a quality (like red) can also not be a legisign. But I might be wrong. Of course. Wilfred Van: Benjamin U

[peirce-l] Re: Sinsign, Legisign, Qualisign

2006-06-13 Thread Benjamin Udell
Joe, Bernard, Wilfred, list, _Magno cum grano salis_ it is, then. The content of the 10-chotomy on which I got my paws is very suggestive, beginning with the sign's own phenomenological category and ending with a trichotomy of _assurances_ of instinct, experience, and form, i.e., as at an

[peirce-l] Re: Sinsign, Legisign, Qualisign

2006-06-08 Thread Benjamin Udell
Thank you, Bernard!-Ben Qualisign Sinsign Legisign Icon Index Symbol Rheme Dicisign Argument qualisigns – iconic – rhematic / sinsigns \ iconic – rhematic

[peirce-l] Re: Entelechy

2006-06-05 Thread Benjamin Udell
Cassiano wrote, It's been a long while I don't write, but the subject interests me.I run the risk of repeating everything that was said here about entelechy, but a look up at the form of the word seems appropriate: entelechy in ancient greek is a form of saying (as literally as I can see)

[peirce-l] Re: LSE Conference abstracts on representation in art and science

2006-06-04 Thread Benjamin Udell
as inferable from a phenomenon of which it is said to be the signification. 4. Importance; consequence; significant import. Halliwell. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] 5. In French-Canadian law, the act of giving notice; notification. - Original Message - From: Benjamin Udell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peirce

[peirce-l] Re: LSE Conference abstracts on representation in art and science

2006-06-04 Thread Benjamin Udell
Gary, Jim, list, [Gary] I've been wanting to address some of the issues of this post of Ben's but, feeling under the weather, I can't yet tackle it with any certainty that I'll contribute to clarifying any of these. I did come across an interesting passage today which, however, might shed

[peirce-l] Re: Graphics in posts

2006-05-30 Thread Benjamin Udell
- From: Benjamin Udell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peirce Discussion Forum peirce-l@lyris.ttu.edu Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 3:41 PM Subject: [peirce-l] Graphics in posts List, I've been considering Richard Hake's complaints about html, graphics, etc., in messages. Believe it or not, I have some

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

2006-05-23 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jim, list, Oops, erratum: I wrote: "Darned if I know what it'd mean for a particle to go at lightspeed -- tau zero -- in a circle and thus coincide with itself indefinitely many times all at once.)." I was thinking of the particle's "own" viewpoint. (Technically, it doesn't even have one

[peirce-l] Re: Trikonicb.ppt Slide 18

2006-05-19 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jerry, Jerry, I missed this question in my response to your post to Gary R. and me: [Jerry] Can you explain your understanding / usage of the concept of grammar? Gary is using "grammar" in Peirce's sense, in order to refer to the discipline and field of study of the various kinds of signs,

[peirce-l] Re: peirce-l digest: May 11, 2006

2006-05-15 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jerry, Gary Richmond's view doesn't technically contradict Gary F.'s statements, since Gary F.'s statements were qualified by the possibility of somebody's producing evidence, though Gary F. obviously seemed doubtful about the idea of the chemical connection. I felt kind of doubtful too,

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

2006-05-08 Thread Benjamin Udell
Dear Jim, list, One thing is that I wouldn't underrate the importance of the conception of resistance/reaction -- I wouldn't replace it with location. Location has a lot to do with resistance and reaction! Space, shortest distances, straight lines, least action, fields, -- there's quite a set

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

2006-05-07 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jim, list, Ben wrote: (Beginning with a quote from my earlier remarks) [Jim] One can indicate the location of an object (or at least to its center of gravity). An object which perfoms this function is called an index. One can not readily point to the quality or form an object because form

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

2006-05-07 Thread Benjamin Udell
Gary F, list, [Gary] I've been following this thread with great interest -- following in the sense that it's always a step or two ahead of me! But i'd like to insert something with reference to Ben's question about words like not, probably, if, etc. [Gary] I don't think it is helpful to

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

2006-05-07 Thread Benjamin Udell
Gary F., list An addendum [Gary] Another relevant distinction from linguistics is between semantics and syntax. If we want to study what (or how) how closed-class words mean, then we have to focus mainly on syntax, or the structure of utterances as determined not by objects denoted or

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

2006-05-03 Thread Benjamin Udell
Joe, list, I had a thought about an topic from February 2006. - Original Message - From: Joseph Ransdell To: Peirce Discussion Forum Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 9:32 AM Subject: [peirce-l] Re: NEW ELEMENTS: So what is it all about? [Ben] Yet attributions, ascriptions,

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

2006-05-03 Thread Benjamin Udell
rsue choosing verbs for these various aspects of signifying. Anyway, while I'm at it, I've made a few syntatically stylistically desperately needed corrections, between astrisks in blue, to my own previous post, after Gary's quotes from Peirce. Best, Ben Udell - Original Message - From: &

[peirce-l] Re: Fw: What is Category Theory?

2006-04-28 Thread Benjamin Udell
Joe, list, The popular discussions of category theory on the Internet haven't helped me very much. Apparently the basic explanational problem is that it's based on higher math, so it's just hard to explain. I once asked a singularity theorist, okay, it's about categories, so what are the

[peirce-l] Re: Peirce and Prigogine

2006-04-22 Thread Benjamin Udell
List, Just wanted to note that I'm having second thoughts about the idea that decay is not an end! But I'll keep it at least somewhat short because Jerry LR Chandler's post looks interesting. (I read some things at http://www.hyle.org/ (philosophy of chemistry) a few years ago, including

[peirce-l] Re: Peirce and Prigogine

2006-04-20 Thread Benjamin Udell
Gary, Actually, you weren't taking too much for granted, at least not with most of the listers, only with ignorant me. I think most listers have either read Prigogine or read discussions about him. I have a book of his somewhere but haven't read it. [Gary] However i still don't find anything

[peirce-l] Re: Peirce and Prigogine

2006-04-19 Thread Benjamin Udell
Bill, Thank you. Talking about cause effect does seem a bit of an art and when I think about it too much, I tend to feel like I'm on thin ice. With other factors held the same, when one wiggles something x, and something y behaves in some corresponding manner and otherwise does not, then we

[peirce-l] Re: Design and Semiotics Revisited (...new thread from Peircean elements topic)

2006-03-28 Thread Benjamin Udell
France, list [Frances] My position is to generally agree with Peirce and pragmatism, to include the trichotomic structure of the phenomenal categories. One metaphysical thorn for me however is whether all the things in the world as posited by Peirce are indeed phenomenal, or rather if there

[peirce-l] Re: Design and Semiotics Revisited (...new thread from Peircean elements topic)

2006-03-23 Thread Benjamin Udell
Frances, list, It's a bit hard to respond to this because, though it's okay for you to disagree with Peirce, you do so in ways that are vague to me; I don't really see clearly the viewpoint which you hold, so it's hard for me to address it. For instance, you say things like "...which signs

[peirce-l] Re: evolving universe

2006-03-23 Thread Benjamin Udell
: [peirce-l] Re: evolving universe On 3/23/06, Benjamin Udell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Il-Young Son, list, Il-Young Son wrote, I am not sure how many, if many, when pressed, would object to the notion that there are fundamental limits to models and that the mapping (or the mediator) between

[peirce-l] Re: naming definite individuals

2006-03-19 Thread Benjamin Udell
it's an index or subindex in singling me out, or singling some other Ben out. It's not a legisign in virtue of such ambiguity. - Original Message - From: Benjamin Udell To: Peirce Discussion Forum Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 1:32 PM Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] [peirce-l] Re: naming def

[peirce-l] Re: naming definite individuals

2006-03-19 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jim, list, You sound like you've gotten it partly right. Sometimes Peirce characterizes the index as something that can be general or singular (individual). But sometimes instead he says that an index has to be singular (individual).Once, hedefines as thesubindex that which is a sign

[peirce-l] Re: naming definite individuals

2006-03-18 Thread Benjamin Udell
Joe, Jim, Joe wrote, Jim: Subindex is not a Peircean term, is it? What is it and why should Peirce be concerned to distinguish an index from it? Joe Ransdell I recently posted about the index and the subindex. Friday, February 10, 2006 2:51 PM, Subject: [peirce-l] Re: NEW ELEMENTS: So

[peirce-l] Re: on continuity and amazing mazes

2006-03-13 Thread Benjamin Udell
Thomas, list, Peirce's version of the proof for Cantor's theorem can be mapped in a quite straightforward way to the structure of the New List of 1867. At the same time the proof of Cantor's theorem can be extended by continued diagonalization (which latter, by the way, Peirce discovered

[peirce-l] Re: Design and Semiotics Revisited (...new thread from Peircean elements topic)

2006-03-12 Thread Benjamin Udell
Frances, Gary, Steven, Joe, Theresa, list, I've taken a while to respond to this, partly because I've been busy, and partly because I wished, despite my difficulty in understanding it, to be responsive to it. I admit I've simplified my task by only briefly skimming all the posts that have

[peirce-l] Collateral observation (quotes)

2006-03-09 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jim, I don't know what could be wrong. It works fine on my MS Internet Explorer Mozilla. Ah, the heck with it! Here they are. - Best, Ben Collateral observation (quotes) Update: Thomas L. Short points to “a long and important section of MS318, first published by Helmut Pape in Nous 1990

[peirce-l] Re: Peircean elements

2006-03-09 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jim, list, Jim wrote: Ben,I have a question. What is the relation between cognition and recognition? It seems that 3a and 3b respond to two different questions, namely, what is a correct logical description of the structure of cognition and how is that structure *validated* for any given

[peirce-l] Re: Peircean elements

2006-03-08 Thread Benjamin Udell
Claudio, list, It's fine with me if you or others modify my graphics for the purposes of discussion, and you seem good at the graphics. The discussion has advanced considerably beyond the point which you seem to have reached. You seem to have isolated a few of my remarks and addressed them

[peirce-l] Re: Design and Semiotics Revisited (...new thread from Peircean elements topic)

2006-03-08 Thread Benjamin Udell
Frances, In Peirce's discussions of collateral experience, notice how he repeatedly says that the sign, the interpretant, the sign system, do not convey experience of the object. Instead, they convey meaning about the object.

[peirce-l] Re: Design and Semiotics Revisited (...new thread from Peircean elements topic)

2006-03-08 Thread Benjamin Udell
Second correction! I must be tired. Sorry. I've gone over it extra carefully this time. - Ben. Sorry, one-word correction, but it's needed. It's indicated in the text. - Ben - Original Message - From: Benjamin Udell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peirce Discussion Forum peirce-l@lyris.ttu.edu

[peirce-l] Re: Peircean elements

2006-03-05 Thread Benjamin Udell
Hi, Thomas, Some of what you say is quite suggestive. I hope somebody here at peirce-l understands it better than I do. I'm hardly acquainted with the EGs. I had a notion that they're basically a visual form of 1st-order logic. I had no idea that Peirce's exploding-point cuts and his maths of

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

2006-02-20 Thread Benjamin Udell
Gary, Jim, Joe, Thomas, list, Erratum. In fact I should probably have cut the kinematic quantities out since there's room to explain what the heck I'm thinking about with them, but, since I mentioned them, I should at least get them right. Change of observer's time should appear where I put

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

2006-02-18 Thread Benjamin Udell
Joe, list, [Joe] Ben, you say: [Ben] I don't pose a tetradic reduction thesis applicable to all relations. I just say that there's a fourth semiotic term that isn't any of the classic three. A sign stands for an object to an interpretant on the basis of a recognition. I think that an

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

2006-02-14 Thread Benjamin Udell
; harder still to confirm solidify it by entelechy = by staying good = continual renovation and occasional rearchitecting (entelechy is not necessarily a freeze) amid changing evolvable conditions. Best, Ben - Original Message - From: Benjamin Udell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peirce

[peirce-l] Re: Introduction

2006-02-12 Thread Benjamin Udell
Joe, list, Thank you for your recollections of Morgenbesser. He sounds so New York Jewish! To B.F. Skinner, Let me see if I understand your thesis. You think we shouldn't anthropomorphize people? Yes, I've come to think that the NYT claim sounds ridiculous (I didn't know what to think back

[peirce-l] Re: Introduction

2006-02-10 Thread Benjamin Udell
Darrel, Tori, Gary, I knew it! I shoulda, woulda, coulda posted my surmise that it was from nothing.com. By the way, did you check out something.com? There's been something there, though the server seems to be down right now. Best, Ben Udell Tori, Being an optimist by nature, I typed

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

2006-02-09 Thread Benjamin Udell
Joe, Gary, Thanks, Gary, for letting me know that I'm not out to lunch on this one. I think that you're right, that the same distinction appears, just with different words, and when Peirce gets down to the business of defining, he's persistently clear which words mean what. Joe, you'll

[peirce-l] Re: NEW ELEMENTS: entelechy (CORRECTED)

2006-01-31 Thread Benjamin Udell
Joe, list, I think you've got it right -- the cognitive content rather than either the act of interpretation or the activity of interpretation. This distinction may get slippery, though, insofar as obect - sign - interpretant are agent - patient - act! Well, let's burn that bridge when we come