Stephen R., List: Do you likewise think that there are no principles of physics, since matter and energy exist prior to any thinking of them? or of chemistry, since elements and compounds exist prior to any thinking of them? or of biology, since plants and animals exist prior to any thinking of them?
Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 10:03 AM Stephen Curtiss Rose <[email protected]> wrote: > I think there are no semiotic principles since signs exist prior to any > thinking of them and are only ours second hand as it were. They are the > objective/subjective (i.e. triadic) receptions of consciousness. They > become tangible to us according to the process we engage in to understand > them. There could be and more than likely are millions of signs related to > the same general subject that occur to millions of souls. It seems to me > that the heart of semiotics is conscious awareness of signs and that > anything we understand as semiotics is what we choose and intend regarding > our encounter with them. Consciousness I see as fundamentally triadic > because it cannot function otherwise. The processes of being conscious > involve the vaporization of binary notions to enable the mind to function > is the proper way. > > amazon.com/author/stephenrose > >>
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