Hi all, I like what Clark has to say. I would also include, a computer model/representamen of what is implied of observation X.
Best, J On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 12:01 PM, CLARK GOBLE <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Aug 18, 2016, at 10:32 AM, Jon Alan Schmidt <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Could you please elaborate on what you (and Peirce) mean by "virtual" in > this context? Citations of appropriate passages are sufficient if I just > need to do some rereading. > > > I think Peirce just means the usual sense of “as if.” I believe he gets > the idea and terminology from Scotus. It’s an idea and terminology common > now but it wasn’t at the time of Peirce. > > Peter Skagestad has a good paper on it. https://www.bu.edu/wcp/ > Papers/Cogn/CognSkag.htm So does Joseph Esposito. http://www. > digitalpeirce.fee.unicamp.br/p-virtuality.htm > > Peirce defined virtual in the Baldwin Dictionary as "A virtual X (where X > is a common noun) is something, not an X, which has the efficiency (virtus) > of an X.” > > For Scotus the emphasis is on virtual knowledge. "No object will produce a > simple and proper concept of itself and a simple and proper concept of > another object unless it contains this second object essentially or > virtually.” So a sphere includes a circle necessarily. > > > > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to > [email protected] . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L > but to [email protected] with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the > BODY of the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm > . > > > > > >
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