Clark, List:

> On May 6, 2016, at 12:43 PM, Clark Goble <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On May 6, 2016, at 8:16 AM, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> There’s no question that scarlet is a determination of red and red a 
>> determination of color. That’s just another way of saying that scarlet is a 
>> specific shade of red and red is a specific class of color. But I don’t see 
>> how this is a case of one abstraction determining another. Even if we call 
>> scarlet, red and color “abstractions” (which I would not do), it would make 
>> no sense to say that scarlet determines red, or that red determines either 
>> scarlet or color. 
>>  
>> Whenever determination occurs (as a process), something gets determined to 
>> be more determinate than it was, and something else does the determining. 
> 
> An other way of putting this is we have to distinguish a logical analysis 
> from other types of analysis.
> 
> With regards to the question of “determination” my sense is that those asking 
> aren’t asking in terms of logical entailment. Rather they’re asking more in 
> terms of Peirce’s semiotic realism as a kind of foundational ontological 
> process. Am I right in that? While I’ve not followed the discussion carefully 
> it seems that the questions as raised are somewhat ambiguous.
> 
> The question of how an object determines an interpretant seems just wrapped 
> up in where Peirce discusses signs ontologically.
> 
> 

Do you see this issue as part of the “symbol grounding problem?”  
When with the determination generate a correspondence between the semantics of 
the determination and the measurements associated with the proposed 
determination?   (thinking about CSP many years of doing pendulum experiments.)

Cheers

Jerry


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