Hear, hear. One would think this would go without saying, but apparently not.
From: Benjamin Udell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2015 6:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] More on applying theory - culture, projection Bev, well, yes, Sung barely emulates Peirce at all, but he wants us to do so in certain convenient ways. It really isn't complicated. PEIRCE-L is for discussion of Peirce-related topics - _particularly_ Peirce-related topics, such that the relation is thematized. If people want a total free-for-all, find somewhere else for it. This is peirce-l, not everything-l. Best, Ben On 7/2/2015 6:27 PM, Bev Corwin wrote: Sorry Ben, I disagree and sounds like an over reaction to Sung's comments. He isn't trying to emulate anything to a T anymore than you are trying to force discussions of Peirce into a technocracy. He is just pointing out something important about Peirce. Why over react? Sincerely, Bev On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Benjamin Udell <[email protected]> wrote: Sung, all, Your post implies that we should emulate Peirce to a T but we can't emulate Peirce to a T because we aren't Peirce. PEIRCE-L is for Peirce-related discussion. Peirce himself was not focused on 'Peirce-related' discussion. Instead those who carry on prolonged, multi-post discussions of a given topic should clarify and thematize the topic's relation to Peirce because that is what is promised to subscribers and that is what most subscribers expect. That has been and will continue to be the policy of peirce-l. Best, Ben Udell as co-manager, peirce-l. On 7/2/2015 5:42 PM, Sungchul Ji wrote: Bev, Gary, lists, I agree with Bev, because Peirce's whole career was devoted to the study of signs and "Peirce-related" is thus "sign-related", it seems to me. Besides, as I learned it from Peirce, we THINK, WRITE, and SPEAK in SIGNS, and hence whatever we post on these lists should be regarded as Peirce-related in one way or another, including linguistic texts, chemical equations, mathematical formulas, network diagrams, pictures, and whatever else that may emerge in the future as NEW means of communication and representation through the Internet. In other words, for me, semiotics is not yet closed. Its future should not be confined to studying MACRO-SEMIOTICS as constructed by Poinsot, Peirce, and others but should be open to studying both MICRO-SEMIOTICS as currently being developed in biosemiotics (.e.g., DNA as a molecular sign) and what may be called 'COSMO-SEMIOTICS' as may be developed in the future (e.g., viewing spiral galaxies as cosmological signs). Imagine what fantastic syntheses in philosophy Pierce's genius might be accomplishing now were he alive today ! All the best. Sung On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Bev Corwin <[email protected]> wrote: I enjoy all of the discussions and would prefer more broad than restrictive frameworks. I consider restricting discussions as more technocratic tactic / approach and not Perice related in style. Bev -- Sungchul Ji, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy Rutgers University Piscataway, N.J. 08855 732-445-4701 www.conformon.net
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