On 1/27/2019 12:36 AM, Gary Richmond wrote:
I might quibble with the language "/pure/ index"--is there such a thing?
I support the quibble. Just look at any index, such as a weather vane. It has an arrow that points in the direction of the wind. And that arrow resembles (is an icon of) the kind of arrow an archer would use. It also has an icon of a rooster on top, which gives another indication about the direction: birds, unlike mammals, typically face into the wind, especially when it's strong. They do so because (an argument) they don't want it to ruffle their feathers. And since a weather vane is such a typical index, an icon of the kind that has an arrow with a rooster on top is often used as a symbol of an index. And then look at Peirce's ten categories of signs, which are derived by considering all possible combinations of his triple trichotomy. And by the way, logic is "another name for semeiotic".
...the subject matter here is not limited to logic as the science of Symbols--it is semeiotic as the science of all Signs
On this point, see below for the quotations from my note in the thread "The structure of recent philosophy". John ____________________________________________________________________ CP 2.227: "Logic, in its general sense, is, as I believe I have shown, only another name for semiotic (σημειωτική), the quasi- necessary, or formal, doctrine of signs." 1904, MS [R] 693:188-190: "The study of languages ought to be based upon a study of the necessary conditions to which signs must conform in order to fulfill their functions as signs. I have gradually been led to conclude that it is best to identify logic with this study." 1909, MS [R] 634:15: "…it would seem proper that in the present state of knowledge logic should be regarded as coëxtensive with General Semeiotic, the a priori theory of signs."
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