Clark, if you’re referring to this — More what I was getting at is that logically red as a class of wavelengths in a given language/culture is entailed by a narrower color within those wavelengths.
I would call that a psycholinguistic issue, not a logical one. The logical point is that scarlet is a determination of red because it’s a kind of red. It’s true that physical parameters such as wavelength will collude with cultural parameters to determine whether an individual calls that color “red” or not, but this psycholinguistic fact is not in itself culturally relative. Gary f. From: Clark Goble [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 9-May-16 10:41 To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce on the Definition of Determination On May 7, 2016, at 5:56 AM, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: It’s true that this discourse has an ontological aspect, i.e. takes us into metaphysics, as Peirce usually called that science. But for Peirce, this is not really a distinct kind of analysis, but rather a development of logic as semiotic itself. “Metaphysics consists in the results of the absolute acceptance of logical principles not merely as regulatively valid, but as truths of being” (CP 1.487, from “The Logic of Mathematics; An Attempt to Develop My Categories From Within”). This is true that Peirce’s logic as semiotic and ontology as semiotic meet in some way. Yet, when doing the type of logic we must think of in terms of ontology with its spatio-temporal issues (at least as Peirce typically conceives of it) verses logical entailment from a bird’s eye view there are big differences. It’s that difference that I was more getting at.
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