Cathy, you asked:
"How does one clearly distinguish between semiosis and physical existence?" I don't get the point of your question (I don't get the joke, I guess!) One makes that clear distinction by defining "semiosis", and using the word "existence", in the way that Peirce did. From that it follows that some signs physically exist and some do not, and in any given semiotic analysis, some physically existing things are signs and others are not. Unless of course it's a pansemiotic analysis like Edwina's! Anyway I'm sure we'll hear from Vinicius next week! gary f. From: Catherine Legg [mailto:cl...@waikato.ac.nz] Sent: 21-Mar-14 5:21 AM To: Gary Fuhrman Cc: Peirce List Subject: RE: [PEIRCE-L] RE: [biosemiotics:5459] Re: What kind of sign is ANYTHING called "a Hi Gary! Thanks for this overview of the contemporary bio-semiotic landscape as you see it. I find such synoptic thinking really helpful myself. I just have a couple of scattered remarks. In Sao Paulo in November 2012 I went to a very interesting presentation by Vinicius on his solenoid of semiosis. My understanding is that it is considerably more complex than a simple spiral insofar as it draws on Peirce's 'three threes' of sign-analysis (qualisign-sinsign-legisign, icon-index-symbol, term-proposition-argument) which produce 9 possibilities. Its diagram was at least three dimensional on the screen if I remember rightly. Perhaps Vinicius, who I understand is on the list, can tell us more. Regarding your criticism of Edwina's view that, "it doesn't clearly distinguish between semiosis and physical existence" How does one clearly distinguish between semiosis and physical existence? J Cheers, Cathy
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