Thanks, Daniel --I am concerned mainly with helping us human beings think a bit more consciously. So I start with the vague -- whatever comes up in the mind and then the index is for me a group of values I deem universal and I assume that the symbol is our consciousness, us, forming some conclusion from the encounter of whatever the first sign was, the index of values and the person's sense of the aesthetic (truth, beauty) in an act or expression. Since acts and expressions can be measured it has seemed to me that this is a way of making things we would otherwise see as unprovable and suppositional actual -- in which case mechanisttic versus spiritual becomes a binary which is obviated by triadic thinking. I see binary thinking as the heritage of our history thus far.
amazon.com/author/stephenrose On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 1:25 PM, Jerry LR Chandler < [email protected]> wrote: > List, Edwinia: > > On Dec 9, 2017, at 10:02 AM, Edwina Taborsky <[email protected]> wrote: > > My own view is that language is a biological necessity in our species > since the fact that we do not store our knowledge genetically but socially > means that we must develop a symbolic referential system for that knowledge > base, i.e., language. > > Language, as a symbolic storage system for knowledge enables our species > to adapt and change that knowledge very rapidly. Therefore, instead of > relying on the biological system to adapt our physical existence, we use a > technological method to provide us with..tools, shelter and so on. > > But as to how language began - this is indeed one of the great questions - > The key is the movement to the symbol [rather than the icon/index]. > > I would suggest several emendations to Edwinia’s comments and suggest a > logical consequence for "the movement to” multiple symbol systems. > > language is a biological necessity in our species > > languages are cultural necessities for our species. > > the fact that we do not store our knowledge genetically but socially > > … the fact is that we store our knowledge both genetically and socially > (and that our genetic storage system enables the social system) > > we must develop a symbolic referential system for that knowledge base, > > culturally, multiple symbolic referential systems emerged over the > centuries to represent that knowledge base > > The key is the movement to the symbol [rather than the icon/index]. > > The keys are the emergence of multiple symbol systems (alphabets, > mathematics, physics, chemistry, genetics, music, and many others) that use > multiple indexes and icons to enable human communications among categories > of knowledge within cultural sub-groups. > Now, for my views on an interpretation of the scientific consequences of > the multiple synthetic symbolizations of nature. > CSP suggests that the emanations that enable human communications > (sinsigns) can categorized as either natural emanations (indexes/icons) or > artificial emanations (indexes/icons) representing symbols and hence > symbolic logics. > > One aspect of CSP’s writings that appear to me to bound his possible > philosophical influences is the crude attempt to freely substitute natural > emanations with artificial emanations ("what the case is" with "what > someone believes the case to be".) > > Cheers > > Jerry > > “The union of units unite the unity" > > > ----------------------------- > 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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