John, Edwina, Jeff, list, You quoted Potter and Shields:
"Peirce proposed the definition: “Whatever is continuous has material parts,” emphasizing that a continuum should not be thought of as a collection of points." JS: What are the material parts of continuous semiosis? But Peirce explicitly gives these examples of material parts in the passage we are referring to which he prefaces with the definition: "Whatever is continuous has material parts.": CSP: ". . .all realities, or all spiritual realities, or are all ideas, or are all characters, or are all relations, or are all external representations, etc." I personally think *all* of the above have the potential of figuring into some semiosis, but *certainly* "all ideas" and "all external representations" can be easily seen as 'material parts' of "what is continuous" as Peirce employs these expressions in the passage we've been discussing and which I quote a portion of below. And note well that his use of 'thing' and 'object' is very general here so that one might say, for example, that a sign is an *object* of ones analysis, that the performance of a play is a *thing *which a critic, for example, might analyze. The *material parts* of a thing or other object, *W*, that is composed of such parts, are whatever things are, firstly, each and every one of them, other than *W*; secondly are all of some one internal nature (for example, are all places, or all spatial realities, or all spiritual realities, or are all ideas, or are all characters, or are all relations, or are all external representations, etc.) Again, I am working on the draft of a post responding to Jeff including some further thoughts on this topic, including that these "material parts" "are all of some one internal nature." Best, Gary *Gary Richmond* *Philosophy and Critical Thinking* *Communication Studies* *LaGuardia College of the City University of New York* *718 482-5690* On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 4:58 PM John F Sowa <s...@bestweb.net> wrote: > Edwina and Gary R, > > ET > > I don't see the term 'continuous semiosis' to mean the history > > of that chair and its uses. > > I just cited Whitehead's example to show how he related an abstract > discussion to a familiar example. I was just asking for any kind > of example. > > ET > > our universe is continuously engaged in these semiosic actions - > > generating all physico-chemical, biological 'things'. > > Yes. But Peirce didn't use the term 'continuous semiosis' to > describe any of those processes. > > GR > > here's an excerpt from a discussion of some of Peirce's last thoughts > > on continuity in the article by Vincent Potter and Paul Shields which > > I pointed to in an earlier post... > > Yes. I'm familiar with Peirce's writings about continuity. But note > what Potter and Shields wrote: > > P & S > > Peirce proposed the definition: “Whatever is continuous has material > > parts,” emphasizing that a continuum should not be thought of as a > > collection of points. > > What are the material parts of continuous semiosis? > > 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 > peirce-L@list.iupui.edu . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L > but to l...@list.iupui.edu 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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