Stephen, There is a curious resonance between several of the political themes that arose in our discussion of sciences as communicational communities and several of the philosophical (broadly formal, logical, or mathematical) themes that come up in Peirce's semiotics. It's an echo that has lurked mostly in the back of my mind since the earliest days of my Peirce studies, and it is definitely coming back to the fore with recent developments on the contemporary political scene.
The crux of both the political issue and the semiotic issue rests squarely with the concept of representation. On the one hand this refers to the organization of a republic endowed with a representative form of government that is meant to represent the concerns, the interests, and the will of the People. On the other hand this refers to the representation of an object by a sign to an interpretant. Jon Stephen C. Rose wrote:
Isn't Peirce's own admission regarding fallibility sufficient to render a "scholarly" approach to him in the conventional sense of "when" and "what does this mean in light of" somewhat ancillary? Trumped by continuity and community and the present task which might be seen in innumerable ways suggested at various time in stand alone phrases by Peirce? Today I am trying to apply Peirce to what is going on on Wall Street which I feel is much bigger than most have yet acknowledged. My feeling is based on what I regard as Peircean premises. *ShortFormContent at Blogger* <http://shortformcontent.blogspot.com/>
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