Edwina, List: JON (earlier): Peirce clearly states, as we have quoted to each other several times now, "It is evident that a Possible can determine nothing but a Possible; it is equally so that a Necessitant can be determined by nothing but a Necessitant."
EDWINA: All this means is that an Object in, for example, a mode of Firstness cannot become an Interpretant in a mode of Firstness or Thirdness. But, an Object in, for example, a mode of Secondness CAN become an Interpretant in a mode of Firstness (eg, a rhematic indexical sinsign). And, an Interpretant in a Mode of Thirdness cannot be 'determined' by an Object in a mode of Firstness or Secondness. JON: Right; but based on what Peirce goes on to say, it ALSO means that an explicit interpretant in a mode of Thirdness cannot be determined by an effective interpretant in a mode of Firstness or Secondness. EDWINA: Again, I see the Destinate as a synonym of Immediate; the Effective is Dynamic; and the Explicit is Final/Normal. JON: If this were the case, then a final/normal interpretant in a mode of Thirdness could not correspond to a dynamic interpretant in a mode of Firstness or Secondness. But a final/normal interpretant in a mode of Thirdness (MORE information) CAN, in fact, correspond to a dynamic interpretant in a mode of Firstness or Secondness (LESS information). Is it the IMMEDIATE interpretant in a mode of Thirdness (MORE information) that cannot correspond to a dynamic interpretant in a mode of Firstness or Secondness (LESS information). At least, that is what I understood from all of your previous comments. Thus, destinate=final/normal and explicit=immediate. EDWINA: I don't agree that IF the Dynamic Interpretant is in a mode of Firstness, that this means that the Immediate Interpretant is in a mode of Firstness ... I don't see that the DI determines the II. JON: Likewise, a dynamic interpretant in a mode of Firstness cannot correspond to an immediate interpretant in a mode of Secondness or Thirdness, because this would mean that the immediate interpretant has MORE information than the dynamic interpretant. Remember, "determines" in this context simply means "has an equal or higher adicity"; so if the DI must have equal or higher adicity than the II, as we previously agreed, then the DI DOES determine the II, in this specific sense. EDWINA: The process is from the II to DI to FI. Not the other way around. JON: One more time--I am NOT discussing the temporal sequence of the semiosic process, but rather the taxonomic order of determination that results in (only) 66 sign classes from 10 trichotomies. Regards, Jon
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