List, Jon: > On Jan 19, 2019, at 8:18 AM, Jon Alan Schmidt <[email protected]> > wrote: > > This initially suggests a Seme as a point, a Pheme as a line defined by two > points, and a Delome as a plane defined by three points that also define > three lines.
It is of interest recall the CSP definitions of the terms Seme, Pheme, and Delome. From the Commens dictionary: 1906 | Prolegomena to an Apology for Pragmaticism | CP 4.538 A familiar logical triplet is Term, Proposition, Argument. In order to make this a division of all signs, the first two members have to be much widened. By a Seme, I shall mean anything which serves for any purpose as a substitute for an object of which it is, in some sense, a representative or Sign. The logical Term, which is a class-name, is a Seme. Thus, the term “The mortality of man” is a Seme. 1906 | Prolegomena to an Apology for Pragmaticism | CP 4.538 A familiar logical triplet is Term, Proposition, Argument. In order to make this a division of all signs, the first two members have to be much widened. [—] By a Pheme I mean a Sign which is equivalent to a grammatical sentence, whether it be Interrogative, Imperative, or Assertory. In any case, such a Sign is intended to have some sort of compulsive effect on the Interpreter of it. 1906 | Prolegomena to an Apology for Pragmaticism | CP 4.538 A familiar logical triplet is Term, Proposition, Argument. In order to make this a division of all signs, the first two members have to be much widened. [—] As the third member of the triplet, I sometimes use the word Delome […], though Argument would answer well enough. It is a Sign which has the Form of tending to act upon the Interpreter through his own self-control, representing a process of change in thoughts or signs, as if to induce this change in the Interpreter. >From the Commens dictionary definitions, the challenge appears to be to widen >the meaning of the words, “term” and “proposition” and concomitantly, assign a >new word, Delome, as a synonym for argument. A principle constraint of meaning of these terms, as well as his previously introduced terms, Rhema, and Dicisign, is to form a conclusion from the argument. At first glance, one might consider the notions of point, line and plane as predicates in the sense first order logic, but this is a very thin linkage. Can you explain the gap between the meanings of the geometric terms, point, line and plane, such that they generalize to linguistic conclusions? Cheers Jerry
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