Edwina, try this one (all the parts): http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E9651802BCDC14BF
From: Edwina Taborsky [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 19:59 To: Deely, John N.; [email protected]; 'Peirce-L' Subject: [biosemiotics:7771] Re: Peirce categories But, John D, the differentiation, between the triadic Sign and the single Relation IS one that is made by Peirce. He himself refers to and names those single Relations. There are nine of them - and they most certainly are not "what can be seen or pointed to or heard". Can you point to a sinsign, a qualisign; can you point to an icon; can you see an argument? No, you can only see, point to or hear, a TRIADIC SIGN. Not the single Relation which simply doesn't exist in time and space on its own. Those single Relations are discussed, endlessly, by Peirce. They form the basis of his ten classes of Signs (triads) - which, each one of them, are made up of THREE Relations - and not one of these can be 'seen/pointed to/heard'...because the only thing that can function that way, is the whole triad, the Peircean Sign (capital S). Edwina ----- Original Message ----- From: Deely, John N.<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ; 'Peirce-L'<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 8:19 PM Subject: [PEIRCE-L] RE: [biosemiotics:7764] Re: Peirce categories Wrong. The "former" refers to 'sign' in the common sense of what can be seen or pointed to or heard, etc. The "latter" refers to the triadic relation which unifies the 'sign' in the 'common sense' with its object and interpretant. Gary F. doesn't make the 'differentiation' you recommend because it has the status of Hamlet in contrast with Napoleon. From: Edwina Taborsky [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 16:36 To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>; 'Peirce-L' Subject: [biosemiotics:7764] Re: Peirce categories But what you, Gary F, are ignoring is that the 'sign' (lower case) is not the same as the Sign (upper case). The latter is a triad; the former is not a triad; it refers only to, eg., the single RELATION between the Dynamic Object and the Representamen. Why don't you differentiate between the triad of three Relations (Sign) and the single Relation? Surely you know that there are nine such Relations; after all, they are well-outlined in the ten classes of Signs (upper case). Edwina ----- Original Message ----- From: Gary Fuhrman<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ; 'Peirce-L'<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 5:24 PM Subject: [biosemiotics:7762] Re: Peirce categories Peirce, CP 8.335: In respect to their relations to their dynamic objects, I divide signs into Icons, Indices, and Symbols (a division I gave in 1867). I define an Icon as a sign which is determined by its dynamic object by virtue of its own internal nature. Such is any qualisign, like a vision, - or the sentiment excited by a piece of music considered as representing what the composer intended. Such may be a sinsign, like an individual diagram; say a curve of the distribution of errors. I define an Index as a sign determined by its dynamic object by virtue of being in a real relation to it. Such is a Proper Name (a legisign); such is the occurrence of a symptom of a disease. (The symptom itself is a legisign, a general type of a definite character. The occurrence in a particular case is a sinsign.) I define a Symbol as a sign which is determined by its dynamic object only in the sense that it will be so interpreted. It thus depends either upon a convention, a habit, or a natural disposition of its interpretant or of the field of its interpretant (that of which the interpretant is a determination). Every symbol is necessarily a legisign; for it is inaccurate to call a replica of a legisign a symbol. From: Edwina Taborsky [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 16-Dec-14 4:55 PM Gary F, you wrote: The reason that "people keep saying you support dyads" is that your three "relations" have only two "members" each, to use Peirce's term. A triadic relation has three members, not two; and a complexus of three dyadic (two-member) relations is not, according to Peirce, "a triadic relation." That's a completely different analytic frame from Peirce's The triadic relation is genuine, that is its three members are bound together by it in a way that does not consist in any complexus of dyadic relations." Peirce is referring, in his use of the term 'member' to the Relations (see his outline in 8.335) and was declaring that the Sign, as a triad, has three bound parts, the Relations. YOU weren't; you were talking about what YOU see, incorrectly, in my definition of each single Relation as an interaction between, eg, the Representamen and the Object; those two perimeters are what you define as two members. That's not how Peirce used the term - and so, I ask you again, where do you get the sense that the perimeters are 'members'? My response was to point out that the perimeters of the Relation between the, eg, Representamen and the Object are NOT 'members'. So, when I refer to three Relations; that between the Representamen-Object; the Representamen in itself; the Representamen-Object....YOU define these as DYADS, with each perimeter node a 'member'. That, as I have constantly pointed out, is absolutelyincorrect. I could say the same about you - 'if you think your version of semiotics...and..even..if you think you are correct in your interpretation of Peirce'...for I don't agree that your interpretation is correct. And that's as far as it should go. You reject debate and discussion and accept only consensus. Otherwise, you get 'testy'. Again, kindly speak only for yourself; there is no need to 'appeal to others' to stand up and cheer for you. Your arguments should stand or fall, totally on their own merit. I admit, I can never understand why some people feel the need for a crowd around them tocheer on their arguments. You don't agree with me. That's fine - you haven't convinced me that my analytic frame is incorrect, and name-calling or putting me down is not a successful method. You don't agree with me -; I haven't convinced you of the validity of my analysis. and that's as far as it should go. There is no need for insults. Edwina ________________________________ ----------------------------- 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]<mailto:[email protected]> . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L but to [email protected]<mailto:[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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