Jerry, I can't exactly tell what what you're hanging on. If you see Peirce's world in that grain of sand, and pragmatic heaven in that wild flower, okay, maybe that's as good a place as any to start.
But verbal wrangling can get a person only so far, even for a wiry cowpoke like C.S. Peirce, and all the great failures to launch I've seen pragmatism and semiotics suffer from during the last century come about because people have a habit of getting waylaid in à priori armchair delicatessen methods of fixing their beliefs in premature contentments. When it's time to deal with real experimental data and realistic practical applications then there is no help for it but wrestling with the mathematical structures of triadic sign relations and relations in general. Regards, Jon -- 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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