A Few Points Along This Line: JA:https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2017-01/msg00055.html JA:https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2017-01/msg00062.html JA:https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2017-01/msg00063.html JA:https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2017-01/msg00070.html CG:https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2017-01/msg00100.html
Clark, List, | There is nothing to prevent almost any sort of difference | from being conventionally neglected in some discourse, and | if 'I' be a term which in consequence of such neglect becomes | indivisible in that discourse, we have in that discourse, | | ['I'] = 1. I believe this is getting close to the heart of the issue. Already by 1870 Peirce introduces a radical departure in the status of individuals, and everything based on them. Namely, he shifts individuality from a category of being to a category of description, relative to a particular discourse situation that we may variously conceive as a context of interpretation, an extended sign relation, a frame of reference, or a universe of discourse. Another way of saying it is that individuality becomes interpretive and relative rather than ontological and absolute. Regards, Jon On 1/17/2017 5:56 PM, Clark Goble wrote:
As I think through the dispute I think really what we’re getting at is Peirce’s notion of the Universe of Discourse. The question then becomes what distinguishes or differentiates one universe of discourse from an other? We recognize that there is not just one universe of discourse. For Peirce to denote is to put the sign in relation to the object of common communication. That is, a universe of discourse. We can of course distinguish two universes such as the universe in which Superman exists and the universe (such as our own) in which he does not. But as soon as we concede this distinguishing universes it seems to me much of what I said follows as a corollary.
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