Stan - there doesn't have to be an 'interpretor' - understood as a human agent. But, no semiosic triad, i.e., the Sign, exists 'per se', isolate. The very nature of semiosis is its networked interactions. That is, the semiosic sign, which can be graphed as a three-spoked umbrella (1.347) doesn't exist as isolate. It is, as shown in that same graph, networked.
This network is 'thought as an active factor in the real world' (1.348) - not the thought held by one other person, but the thought held within all morphologies in the world. In order for that Mind or 'thought' to be 'real', it must be made existential or articulated within discrete morphologies in modes of Secondness and, with feelings of Firstness. So- while I fully agree with you that there is no 'defined interpretor', just to clarify, there is always an 'other' to establish a network of interactions. Edwina ----- Original Message ----- From: Stanley N Salthe To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 9:01 AM Subject: [biosemiotics:8819] Re: Can there be an interpretant without an Sung -- In pansemiosis no defined interpretor is necessary for their to be an interpretant STAN On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Sungchul Ji <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, In a recent article ("Semiosis stems from logical incompatibility in organic nature", Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology XXX (2015) 1-6), Kalevi wrote: ". . . . interpretant is enough; there can be interpretant without an interpreter". Is this true ? Can Kalevi or anyone else on these lists give me some example of this ? I always thought that Peirce defined an interpretant as the effect that a sign has on the mind of an interpreter. Perhaps this is a misunderstanding on my part ? All the best. Sung -- 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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