Inquiry Blog: http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2016/04/04/definition-and-determination-11/
Peirce List: JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/18569 JBD:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/18598 Jeff, List, Let me go back to this point in the discussion and emphasize a few points that appear to have gotten lost in what followed. I thought my first paragraph made it clear that I would be focusing on “the meaning of determination as it figures in Peirce's definition of a sign relation”. If I get a chance to revise that second paragraph I'll add a word to reinforce that focus, say, as follows: > Looking back over many previous discussions on the Peirce > List, I think the most important and frequently missed point > is that concepts like correspondence and determination in > Peirce['s semiotics] refer to triadic forms of correspondence > and determination, and that these do not reduce to the dyadic > structures that are endemic to the more reductionist paradigms. Okay, I hope that much is clear now. By “Peirce's definition of a sign relation” I really mean the select number of his best definitions, not mere descriptions, the definitions that are strong enough to bear the load of a consequential and consistent theory of sign relations. The best candidates I can think of in that regard are the 2 variants from NEM 4, quoted on this page: https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/06/01/c-s-peirce-%E2%80%A2-on-the-definition-of-logic/ I'll have to break here as I've got plumbers coming to fix some pipes ... Regards, Jon On 4/4/2016 9:40 AM, Jon Awbrey wrote:
Peircers, The subject of determination comes up from time to time. Here is a link to an assortment of excerpts I collected back when I was first trying to understand the meaning of determination as it figures in Peirce's definition of a sign relation. http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/User:Jon_Awbrey/EXCERPTS Looking back over many previous discussions on the Peirce List, I think the most important and frequently missed point is that concepts like correspondence and determination in Peirce refer to triadic forms of correspondence and determination, and that these do not reduce to the dyadic structures that are endemic to the more reductionist paradigms. In this more general perspective, the family of concepts including correspondence, determination, law, relation, structure, and so on all fall under the notion of constraint. Constraint is present in a system to the extent that one set of choices is distinguished by some mark from a larger set of choices. That mark may distinguish the actual from the possible, the desired from the conceivable, or any number of other possibilities depending on the subject in view. Regards, Jon
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