Aw: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Lowell Lecture 3.6

[Helmut Raulien]

Gary, Kirsti, List,

I do not agree, that the geometrical metaphor suits. "Part of", geometrically or spatially understood, is only one kind of being a part of. Kirsti suggested, that meaning is a part of a sign. But is meaning metaphorizable as a point on the line, with the line metphorizable as a sign? Ok, a common speech metaphor is "I get the point" for "I get the meaning". But still I think, that a functional part is something completely different from a spatial, geometrical part, a compartment. A sign is a function, not a range with a clear spatial border, and there are different laws applying, which are not geometrical, though there may be geometrical metaphors, but I think they stumble. And: Metaphorization is not analysis. It is poetry.

Best,

Helmut

 

 21. Dezember 2017 um 15:39 Uhr
 g...@gnusystems.ca
wrote:

Kirsti, list,

 

Asking whether a sign has parts is like asking whether a line has points. Peirce has a comment on that in one of my blog posts from last month, http://gnusystems.ca/wp/2017/11/stigmata/. By the way, according to my sources, Aristotle used the word σημεῖον for point before Euclid.

 

Gary f.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: kirst...@saunalahti.fi [mailto:kirst...@saunalahti.fi]
Sent: 21-Dec-17 01:25
 

 

Listers,

 

Perhaps It is good to remember historical changes with names used for geometrical point. Euclid introduced the word SEMEION, and defined it as that which has no parts, and his followers started to that word instead of the earlier STIGME . – But (with latin) the Romans & later Boethius changed it to PUNCTUM in their commentaries.

 

Does a sign have parts?  - How about meaning?

 

Best, Kirsti

 

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