Jon, you wrote, "It has long been my practice to maintain a separation between original source texts and their various interpretant texts and I continue to believe that this is the better practice from the standpoint of both scholarship and encouraging critical thinking than dicing and slicing a source text and commingling it with one own interpretations to the point where readers have difficulty disentangling the mix."
This doesn't explain why there's any point to your practice of posting, on a public forum, slices of a source text, when the *whole* text is already available to participants in that forum. By doing so, you are yourself slicing and dicing the source text, removing it from its context. What's the use of flagging some slice as important without giving any indication of *why* you consider it important? If you want to keep a notebook of such slices (in order to revisit them later for your own purposes), that's fine, I do that all the time. But I don't post such things on a public forum (until I have something to say about them), because the selection is made for my own purposes, and serves no purpose in anyone else's inbox except to take up spacetime. gary f. -----Original Message----- From: Jon Awbrey [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 27-Sep-14 11:09 PM To: Frederik Stjernfelt Cc: [email protected]; Gary Fuhrman; Gary Richmond; Benjamin Udell Subject: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions . Selected Passages Gary F, Gary R, List, It has long been my practice to maintain a separation between original source texts and their various interpretant texts and I continue to believe that this is the better practice from the standpoint of both scholarship and encouraging critical thinking than dicing and slicing a source text and commingling it with one own interpretations to the point where readers have difficulty disentangling the mix. That is the way I work through a text when I take it seriously and it has been my desire to take Frederik's work and the issues it raises seriously. I have never understood why anyone would object such a practice but since one or two have done so I made several tries over the course of the day to re-organize the selections so far on my blog. That attempt has proven to be unworkable for all sorts of reasons and so I have abandoned it. If I can't think of another way to proceed in the next couple days I will beg off and go do other work. Regards, Jon
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