> On Apr 29, 2016, at 7:29 AM, Jerry LR Chandler <[email protected]> > wrote: > > It is a fact that the natural sciences use several notational systems to > express the consequences of inquiries. These notational systems use > different meanings of symbols in order to create a coherent (logical, > mathematical) expression of beliefs about relations within nature. (Consider > the symbolization of time in physics, chemistry and music!) > > Yet, there is an intrinsic unity to the experience of time itself (if it has > a self!)
Again I think a big issue is the issue of translation. The various notational symbols can be translated between. We pick one more due to ease of some problems and due to historical reasons. In a somewhat similar fashion a physicist will choose to solve a problem in mechanics or quantum mechanics using particle (Newtonian) models, conservation of energy models, lagrangian models, or hamiltonian like models primarily based upon convenience. It’s the ability to translate between conceptual models that’s important. This becomes even more true when we abstract farther and use tensor formulations and convert our metric tensor to choose an appropriate coordinate system. This might just reflect my biases, but I think the notion of translation is key to thinking through a lot of these issues. Not just notational systems where we have a basic isomophism but even the issue of translating between systems that we can’t get a true 1:1 translation. > Why do you believe that: > >> While none of these are in the Peircean arena, I think they fit in rather >> well. (Inquiry as a continual generation of higher metalanguage in terms of >> semiosis) > > ? The expansion of the system being inquiry? I’ll admit that I’m somewhat here following how Derrida appropriates Peirce and Gödel. And again, I take the minority reading of Derrida as a realism rather than as a relativist and nihilist. (Although I think it’s quite easy to argue for that position) I think this is basically just Peirce’s concept of evolutionary sign.
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