(Edited for parallelism in third sentence of the second paragraph.)
List, Gary, Tori: Below is an abstract that does not mention the term 'teleology', but, in fact, IMHO and idiosyncratic philosophy, gets to the heart of the issues of ostension. Much is to be learned by comparing the current paper under discussion to this paper by Rossella Fabbrichesi. One ought to consider that any living system must not only acquire signs from its current situation, but also ACT on the signification of the signals in such a manner AS TO PROSPER. This necessity to act separates the mere mental from the existential. This necessity for action separates traditional biosemiotics from semiotics, chemistry from physics, perplexity from complexity. In human societies, this includes the genesis and sustaining of the community, the common social and cultural structures inherited from the past generations. In short, the problem is not one in which a sign generates an infinite ingress into further signs, but rather that the living system creates actions from the signs. Idiosyncratically Yours Cheers Jerry Iconic thought and diagrammatical scripture: Peirce and the Leibnizian tradition ROSSELLA FABBRICHESI Abstract I will sustain in this article that Peirce can be seen as the last great representative of that inconspicuous but persistent tradition that, from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century, spent its energies on discovering a universal language. His project of Existential Graphs is in fact grounded on the isomorphism among a Sheet of Assertion, in which Graphs-signs are drawn, a Mind, with its thoughts-signs, and the Universe, with its facts-signs. In the same sense, Leibniz worked on his Characteristica Universalis, seen as a general Encyclopedia or alphabet of human thoughts, and a pictum mundi amphitheatrum. Keywords: Peirce; Leibniz; existential graphs; Characteristica Universalis; universal language; icon --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the PEIRCE-L listserv. To remove yourself from this list, send a message to [email protected] with the line "SIGNOFF PEIRCE-L" in the body of the message. To post a message to the list, send it to [email protected]
