What's more public than this list? You and me make two. That's almost public. I would throw in Nietzsche who was openly hostile to the notion that words are a be and end all. Plus any author knows - certainly Peirce did - that the totality of what is in the mind is at best subjected to a selection process that could ignore a huge number of possibilities foreclosed by the process of naming.
*@stephencrose <https://twitter.com/stephencrose>* On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Gary Fuhrman <[email protected]> wrote: > Stephen -- "a slaying of what was there?" Do you mean the letter killeth > the spirit? J Actually I think this is pretty close to what I've said > (citing Eugene Gendlin) in Chapter 4 of *Turning Signs* ( > http://www.gnusystems.ca/bdy.htm#person). But then this is an > introspective view of mental activity, which according to Peirce is > unreliable unless we can investigate it logically through *public* > observations. > > > > gary f. > > > > *From:* Stephen C. Rose [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* 31-Jul-14 6:39 PM > *To:* John Collier; Peirce List > *Subject:* Re: [PEIRCE-L] [biosemiotics:6231] Re: biosemiotics is the > basis for > > > > It is the penumbra of everything within the mind that you experience prior > to putting a word to it that attests to the independent existence of > "uninterpreted phenomena". I think it is for this reason that the writing > of words is always a sort of slaying of what was there. This is a temporal > event. It proceeds I think from the conscious sense of there being more > than one can name and its editing down to one or more terms that is seen to > be the named sign. This is my experience of how signs may evolve within > consciousness. > > > *@stephencrose <https://twitter.com/stephencrose>* > > >
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