John, list,


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
>
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