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Yes, but I'm trying to emphasize, or perhaps remind ourselves, that
Peircean semiotics is not expressed simply in language and/or logic,
but in its pragmatic application to material life. That is - there
are three 'parts' so to speak; language/logic/pragmatic application.
My concern is that much of the focus of our examination of Peirce is
often on terminology, on which term he used for..___. Since Peirce
often changed these terms, then, to me, they are not the vital ground
of Peircean semiosis and even sidesteps the fundamental nature of
Peircean semiotics - which is its pragmaticism.
And an ever-present danger when we confine ourselves to this
rhetoric [but not logic] - is that easy slip into Platonic idealism -
which actually denies pragmaticism because it separates Mind and
Matter.
Edwina
On Thu 06/09/18 11:35 AM , John F Sowa [email protected] sent:
On 9/6/2018 11:07 AM, Edwina Taborsky wrote:
> I agree with your linking Peirce's semiotic with his logic, but
> my concern is that one can lose the vital nature of Peirce;
namely,
> that his logic-as-formal semiotic is a pragmatic system.
I agree with your concerns. I know many logicians who get lost
in the technical details and ignore all the issues about relating
logic to language, thought, and life.
I also admit that it's much easier to write many pages of ordinary
language than to write a few lines of precisely stated mathematics
or mathematical logic. Peirce knew that. But he also knew that
precision required a restatement in terms of some version of logic.
Basic point: It's vastly easier to translate logic to language,
than to translate language to logic. But the exercise of writing
the logic is necessary for precision.
John
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