Post : Zeroth Law Of Semiotics http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2015/07/30/zeroth-law-of-semiotics/ Date : July 30, 2015 at 10:00 am
Peircers, New (if not exactly novel) discussions of the so-called "Liar Paradox" have broken out at several places on the web in recent weeks and these always bring to my mind at least a number of critical ways in which the Peircean paradigm of logic as semiotics differs from the fallback paradigm that bedevils the thinking of those who have yet to see by Peirce's lights. And that brings to my mind at least the following oldie but still goodie that articulates what I take to be the issue at the root of this and many other pseudo-problems. (I have revised the title a bit for this edition.) Zeroth Law Of Semiotics ======================= Meaning is a privilege not a right. Not all pictures depict. Not all signs denote. Never confuse a property of a sign, just for instance, existence, with a sign of a property, for instance, existence. Taking a property of a sign for a sign of a property is the zeroth sign of nominal thinking and the first mistake. Also Sprach 0* 2002 October 09 http://lyris.ttu.edu/read/messages?id=32824 -- academia: http://independent.academia.edu/JonAwbrey my word press blog: http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/ inquiry list: http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/ isw: http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/JLA oeiswiki: http://www.oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/JonnyCache
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