Thanks. That makes sense. I think to popularize Peirce in the best sense is to create a model that has three stages but which is clearly as you say, not a rote affair. The best popular iteration of a general approach that seems to me triadic is "Madam Secretary" whose theme is not merely thinking beyond the box but beyond it. I read your paper you mentioned and am very glad to see some consonance between Peirce and Wittgenstein as they seemed to arrive at much the same point by somewhat different ways.
amazon.com/author/stephenrose On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 3:37 PM, John F Sowa <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/12/2017 10:43 AM, Stephen C. Rose wrote: > >> Isn't the point of considering anything the end? And isn't the end >> a practical actionable something (expression, act) that contains >> the initial sign and the index. >> > > Peirce said that the interpretant of any sign is always another sign. > He also said that every meaningful sign must show its passport at the > gates of perception and action. But he put no limits on the number > of intermediate steps. > > In which case the sign would already have been predefined by the >> logical end, though requiring the cogitative process to get there. >> Isn't the end the point of the pragmaticist maxim. >> > > Both gates are essential for meaningful signs. But any mark > may be interpreted as a token of an open-ended variety of types. > A meaningful sign could be encountered on many different steps > of many different paths from perceptible marks to purposive actions. > > John > > > ----------------------------- > 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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