Dear John, list,
Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t semiosis a greek term? To use your arguments to declare such limits as to how we ought to engage in this conversation, though manly, doesn’t appear, at least to me, that it is in accord with sophrosune, *the* womanly virtue. I mean, isn’t that “too much”? With best wishes, Jerry R On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 10:14 PM John F Sowa <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, > > The discussion in this thread suggests the following points: > > 1. Peirce used the terms 'continuous' and 'semiosis', but there > is no evidence that he used the terms 'continuous semiosis' or > 'continuity of semiosis'. > > 2. Since Peirce said that anything continuous must have material > parts, he may have had some reason for not using the term > 'continuous semiosis' -- i.e., he didn't have a clear idea > about the material parts of semiosis. > > 3. I am always suspicious of any claim that Peirce would have, > might have, or should have used some term that does not occur > anywhere in his publications or MSS -- unless there is some > very precise definition of how the new term should be used. > > 4. If anybody wishes to invent a new term that does not occur in > anything CSP wrote, they should (a) give a precise definition with > examples. and (b) state that it is their own term, not Peirce's. > > By the way, it's possible that some unpublished MS might turn up > in which Peirce does use that term. But unless and until any such > MS is discovered, I would observe the caveats in point #4. > > 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 > . > > > > >
----------------------------- 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 .
