Edwinia: Please re-read my post.
It simply states two parallel sentences. Does your response, with its conjectures that give a hint as to the identity your character, confirm my suggestion that there is no room for compassion in semiotics? :-) Best Wishes to All for a New year filled with compassion. Cheers Jerry > On Dec 28, 2017, at 1:00 PM, Edwina Taborsky <[email protected]> wrote: > > Jerry, list - but apart from the perhaps-not-quite-accurate analogy of > 'destitute in a foreign land' - don't you consider that it is rationally > dangerous to set up an analogy that might imply that the attributes of one > set can possibly be fully applied to the second set? > > Human compassion has nothing to do with this attempt at analogous comparison > and to me, it doesn't make sense to suggest that To Make Such An Analogy is > an Act-of-Compassion. > > It's a similar false analogy as in the common logical fallacy of: > > All cats are animals > All dogs are animals > Therefore, all dogs are cats. > > > Edwina > > > > On Thu 28/12/17 1:47 PM , Jerry LR Chandler [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> sent: > Peter, List: > > Is it possible that what is missing from this philosophical discussion is > simple human compassion? > > The Holy Family were destitute in a foreign land. > > in parallel sentence structure for the image (icon) without regard to the > facts not stated of the two images, > > The refuges are destitute in a foreign land. > > Of course, the concept human compassion is seldom an acceptable argument in > semeiotics, or is it? > > Cheers > > Jerry > >> On Dec 28, 2017, at 8:33 AM, Skagestad, Peter < <>[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Listers, >> >> I have a somewhat unusual question. My sister is writing an Art History >> thesis on nativity scenes and their contemporary relevance. An example is >> one at a street mission in Trondheim, Norway, depicting the Holy Family as >> present-day refugees from the Middle East. Now the question is what, if >> anything, might semiotics have to say about such depiction? The answer may >> be obvious, but it escapes me, at least for the moment. Any suggestions? >> >> Cheers, >> Peter >> >> ----------------------------- >> 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>http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm >> <http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm> .
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