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How do you classify biosemiotic using your scheme? If there is no room for it, then what good is the classification? Thanks, Jerry R On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 10:05 PM, John F Sowa <[email protected]> wrote: > Edwina and Jon AS, > > ET > >> My concern is that this list seems to focus almost exclusively >> on debates about terminology and classification of research areas, and >> doesn't venture outside the seminar room into the mud and dirt >> of the real matter-as-mind world. >> > > Peirce had a long career in science and engineering. He certainly > knew how to apply mathematics and science to build things and make > them work. And his engineering work influenced what he wrote about > the practical sciences in his classifications. > > One reason why I like Peirce's classification is that it shows > how all the sciences are related to each other, to mathematics, > to philosophy, to the methodeutic that "digs in the dirt" to > discover facts, and to the practical sciences that build things. > > If you can find anything "in the mud and dirt" that it doesn't > cover, I'd like to see that. > > JFS: The subject matter of phenomenology is the totality of signs >> that appear to the mind, and CP 1.300 calls the semiotic categories >> "conceptions drawn from the logical analysis of thought". >> >> JAS: This does not seem right to me; it presupposes that anything >> that appears to the mind must be a Sign. >> > > Two points: (1) if the phaneron contains anything that is not > a sign, semiotic could be defined as the study of the signs in > phenomenology. (2) In any case, it's hard to imagine anything > that appears to the mind that is not a sign. If Peirce ever said > that there are things in the mind, in thought, or in the phaneron > that are not signs, I'd like to see the quotation. > > John > > > ----------------------------- > 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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