Jon, Stephen, Sung, list, Jon makes a deceiving simple but vastly important point, I think, in the conclusion of the message he just linked to. Jon writes:
- *Merely to describe how a predicate of reality rises to the* - *level of making any sense at all, we have to be operating* - *within a framework of at least a certain arity, complexity,* - *dimensionality, or richness, and everything points to the* - *circumstance that the minimal sort of framework for this* - *purpose is a sign relation or something tantamount to it.* Best, Gary R. *Gary Richmond* *Philosophy and Critical Thinking* *Communication Studies* *LaGuardia College of the City University of New York* On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Jon Awbrey <[email protected]> wrote: > Stephen C. Rose wrote: > >> Inherent perhaps. I do not think much can be explained regarding what >> exists before we name things. Vagueness. A penumbra. Or as I would say, >> all >> embracingly, reality. That would be the realm of firstness it seems. That >> said, it seems to me that we keep things in mind verbal form so that >> consideration from "firstness" can be inferred rather than always related >> to a sign. There is a sense in which "in the beginning is the word" to >> coin >> a phrase. >> >> *@stephencrose <https://twitter.com/stephencrose>* >> > > or “Grammar Recycled As Metaphysics”, to split another coin. > > cf. “Grammar Reified As Metaphysics” > ☞ http://stderr.org/pipermail/arisbe/2005-July/002839.html > > Jon > > -- > > academia: http://independent.academia.edu/JonAwbrey > my word press blog: http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/ > inquiry list: http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/ > isw: http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/JLA > oeiswiki: http://www.oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey > facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/JonnyCache > > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to > [email protected] . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L > but to [email protected] with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the > BODY of the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm > . > > > > > >
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