At 09:44 AM 1/31/2015, Gary Fuhrman wrote:
What you [John] are saying is essentially that we may not use this [Peirce's] language, nor may we use the term determine to signify the relation between objects in the real world (including generals) and the propositions about them, the signs which express "fact". So by your lights, we can't say that a sign is determined by its object to determine an interpretant even if we can say that a dropped rock is determined by gravitation to fall in a specific direction.
HP: I think John is correct. I can say that according to the (symbolically expressed) law of gravity this law predicts that a rock is determined to fall. I cannot correctly say that the above expression of the law of gravity is determined. Like all creative models it was discovered using abduction.
Howard
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