List:
Per Gary R.'s suggestion, I set aside the concept of "perfect Sign" for a
little while to focus on the concept of "Quasi-mind." After going back
through the key quotes (https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/
arc/peirce-l/2018-02/msg00322.html), all of which are from 1906, here is a
revised summary.
1. Every Sign is a *determination *of a Quasi-mind, which is something
of the general nature of a Mind.
1. The Quasi-mind is *itself *a Sign that is susceptible to
determination, but it is not logically necessary that it possess
*consciousness*.
2. There are no *isolated *Signs, and multiple Signs connected such
that they can have *one *Interpretant are determinations of *one *
Quasi-mind.
3. The determinations of a Quasi-mind become Immediate Interpretants
of all other Signs whose Dynamic Interpretants are dynamically connected
2. Every Sign requires *two *distinct Quasi-minds, a *Quasi-utterer*
and a *Quasi-interpreter*, which may be temporally successive versions
of the *same *Quasi-mind; as well as a *third *Quasi-mind that is their
overlap, the *Commens*.
1. The essential ingredient of the Quasi-utterer is the (Dynamic)
Object, which determines the Sign *only *in the respect (Immediate
Object) that enables the Sign to act on the Quasi-interpreter as
the Object *itself
*would.
2. The essential ingredient of the Quasi-interpreter is the (Dynamic)
Interpretant, which the Sign produces as a *singular *event by
determining
the Quasi-interpreter to a feeling, to an exertion, or to another Sign.
3. The essential ingredient of the Commens is the Sign itself,
which *welds
*the Quasi-utterer and Quasi-interpreter into *one *Quasi-mind that
includes whatever they must *already *share for the Sign to fulfill
its function.
4. When there is no *actual *Quasi-interpreter, the (Immediate)
Interpretant is the range of *possible *effects that the Sign
*would *produce,
if it *were *to determine a Quasi-interpreter.
5. When there *is *a Quasi-interpreter, the (Dynamic) Interpretant is
a state of activity, mingled with curiosity, that usually leads to
experimentation as the normal logical effect.
3. In Existential Graphs, the Sheet of Assertion or Phemic Sheet is ...
1. the *matter *that the Graph-instances are to determine, in which
the Graphist and Interpreter are *at one*.
2. the *means *by which the Graphist and Interpreter *collaborate *in
composing a Pheme [or Dicisign] and in operating on this so as
to develop a
Delome [or Argument].
3. a Diagram of the logical Quasi-mind that is determined by all of
the Signs represented on it.
4. a Diagram of the logical Universe and a Seme [or Rheme] of *the
Truth*, the widest Universe of Reality.
5. a Pheme [or Dicisign] of the Commens, all that is tacitly taken
for granted between the Graphist and Interpreter from the outset of their
discussion.
Based on all of this, it seems to me that a Quasi-mind can be defined
as an *individual
*Sign that is also a *complex *of Signs, which are connected such that they
are susceptible to determination by *another *Sign to a *single *Interpretant.
The additional Sign may be either a *natural *Sign determined directly by a
Dynamic Object that the Quasi-mind encounters, or a *genuine *Sign
determined by another Quasi-mind (perhaps its *past *self) with which it
becomes welded in that Sign. The resulting Interpretant may be a
*further *genuine
Sign that determines yet another Quasi-mind (perhaps its *future *self).
Peirce's characteristic emphasis on continuity is evident here. The flow
of Signs within and between Quasi-minds is much like the flow of time
itself, which has no *discrete *instants--only *infinitesimal *moments (cf.
CP 7.653; 1903). That is why *any *analysis of concrete semiosis must
be *arbitrary
*to some degree--designating one Sign within a process of Sign-action is
like marking one point on a line; in both cases, we are introducing a
*discontinuity
*into that which is *continuous *in itself.
Regards,
Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA
Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman
www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt
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