Robert, is it your intention to argue that communication cannot “succeed” at all unless the interpretant of the sign is completely determinate, and identically so for all communicants?
Would you likewise say that knowledge is not actual, or real, unless it is absolute and unquestionable? Gary f. From: robert marty <[email protected]> Sent: 18-May-20 03:25 To: Jon Alan Schmidt <[email protected]> Cc: Peirce-L <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] To put an end to the false debate on the classification of signs Jon Alan, List I repeat this debate with you and it leads me to ask you a preliminary question that I should have asked you on September 22, 2018, but I probably did not have very clear ideas 18 months ago. Here it is: what you say this: " The Destinate Interpretant is what the Sign is destined to signify at the end of infinite inquiry by an infinite community; i.e., the Final Interpretant"? Because this quote troubles me a little: " In that second part, I call "truth" the predestinate opinion,17 by which I ought to have meant that which would ultimately prevail if investigation were carried sufficiently far in that particular direction." (The Essential Peirce A Sketch of Logical Critics p.457) It seems to me in complete fact that if this were the case the whole of humanity would be doomed to wait until the end of eternity to succeed in its first communication. Unless an immanent power deposits it in all minds at the moment of the perception of the sign? Should we read "predestinate"? Because there's a perception, isn't there? You will not be able to escape the chronology until the end of time: the signs that actually occur in social life must be taken care of by the theory of signs, shaped to be subjected to analysis, debated ... Etc... Otherwise what are we doing here? Best regards, Robert
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