Charles, Gary F, and Edwina, Charles
On what the sheet of assertions represents in EGs, I thought Peirce said it represents TRUTH...
Yes, but that is because a blank sheet in EGs is a graph that says nothing false. When I teach EG logic, I say "Silence is golden". Charles
if we frame a theory of language in terms of EG, that would explain the fact that language in general presupposes truth.
It's best not to read too much into the truth value of the blank. Its meaning in the EG system is determined by the rules of inference and the method of endoporeutic (outside-in evaluation) for determining the truth of any graph. Gary
Peirce does say that the sheet of assertion represents the universe of discourse...
Yes. And his rules of inference preserve truth. So if you start with a blank sheet, which is true in every possible universe of discourse, any statement you derive from a blank sheet must be true in every universe of discourse. In short, the blank is Peirce's only axiom. Any statement derivable from the blank is a theorem. The negation of the blank is an empty oval, which is always false. Peirce called it the pseudograph. Gary
You mentioned that "any Japanese sentence can be turned into a question just by adding 'ka' at the end." Canadians often do that by adding "eh?"
Yes. But that's not a systematic feature of the grammar. Japanese has a system such endings. Edwina
I think that's an interesting facet of a particular mindset, that sees the Subject and the Object as together co-involved in the actions of the verb.
Linguists classify languages according to the order of subject, verb, and object. For most verbs, the object tends to be more closely associated with the action of the verb than the subject. The order of SOV, SVO, or VSO seems to be less important. Re mindset: It's questionable whether the default word order of a language has much influence. Japanese and Latin are both SOV languages, but it's hard to draw conclusions about the mindset of the Romans and the Japanese. John
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