Edwina, List,
My old avatar 0* (Zero-Aster) does incline to laconic verses,
but I hope to address a class of concrete applications that
will serve to unpack their sense.
The main thing I'd like to communicate here is the possibility
that many so-called insolubilia and paradoxes are really just
examples of conceptual difficulties that can be resolved when
viewed within the right sort of conceptual framework, namely,
Peirce's pragmatic semiotics, or a natural extension of it.
Regards,
Jon
On 7/30/2015 12:35 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote:
Jon - I think your post is too subtle and will whistle right past
those who are most involved in informing us of their views without
realizing these problematic confusions.
Edwina
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Awbrey" <[email protected]>
To: "Peirce List" <[email protected]>
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Subject: [PEIRCE-L] Zeroth Law Of Semiotics
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
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