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}List - as I see it, this question was specifically asked by Robert
Marty of Jon Alan Schmidt -- a question asking about his specific
views on the Interpretants - and I think it has to be first, replied
to by Jon Alan Schmidt!
I think it's a legitimate question - and all we can do is wait for
the reply by JAS to Robert.
Edwina
>> 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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