Let us have in a brief statement some definitions from members of what the term "sign" seems to mean. In the possible absence of any positive replies, it can likely be assumed that no confusion exists about this issue. In regard to the pragmatist jargon about signs, it is admittedly baroque and complex and difficult. The very real task for me in probable perpetuity is to weave this snarl of twine into a common lingual thread, and then tailor it for specific kinds of audiences. It may be that there is indeed a failure here. -FCK
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 3:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Sign Defined In a message dated 7/2/09 2:08:41 PM, [email protected] writes: > It would however be my > interpretation that an absence implies no confusion, > This we knew, Frances. But, whether by 'implies' you have in mind a weak "suggests" or a firm "necessarily entails", the whole point of my response was to convey that your interpretation was in error. I'm incredulous enough to want to repeat my question: Do you believe that because no one mentioned their confusion when reading the following lines from you, you should confidently infer their silence "implies" the lines c aused no confusion whatever? " these subsigns would correctly be immediate syntactic actisigns, and not immediate semantic qualisigns like their referential tones and marks. The issue then is what dynamic or energetic intermediate object is signified by the preparatory subsign to a mark, and what proper sign is subsequently realized by this subordinate act of productive signification. Such an interpretation of marks wrongly and merely as immediate syntactic representations, and not correctly as immediate semantic referentions, subsequently turns the quasi marks as actisigns justly into nothing more than vital indexic signs like signals and symptoms caused by some organism." ************** It's raining cats and dogs -- Come to PawNation, a place where pets rule! (http://www.pawnation.com/?ncid=emlcntnew00000008)
