* Comments on the Peirce List slow reading of Joseph Ransdell, "On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic", http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/aboutcsp/ransdell/paradigm.htm
Peircers, I would like to return to an earlier point in the discussion and continue with the thoughts that I had in mind at the time. JA: One of the things we do in empirical science is collect data. JA: Data is often collected in the form of relational data bases. Relational data bases, at their most basic level, are simply finite sets of "relation elements" or "elementary relations", which are finite sequences, "k-tuples", of a given data type. It is usual to visualize such a data base as arranged in the form of a rectangular table with columns and rows, with each row recording one relation element (k-tuple) and each column headed by a name for the type of datum that goes in the j-th place of the k-tuple. JA: If we ask ourselves: What is the paradigm or pattern of data appropriate for semiotic? -- the answer is a data table with three columns, headed "Object", "Sign", "Interpretant". (The order of the columns does not matter so long as we know what it is.) My mind is drawn back to the decade of the 1980s, when at long last I completed a Master's degree in Mathematics, concentrating as much as the department would let me on the eminently fascinating and "fun" subjects of combinatorics, graph theory, and group theory, and I found my mind wandering, as it had a habit of doing, back to old interests in psychology, computation, and artificial intelligence. I spent that decade cycling through that array of interests at a number of universities in the Midwest, working a while at the Institute for Social Research in Ann Arbor, and spending my spare time developing a computer program that was designed to integrate basic functions of learning and reasoning, that is, "empirical" and "rational" faculties, over a core set of algorithms and data structures. To be continued ... Jon CC: Arisbe, CG, Inquiry, Peirce List -- facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/JonnyCache inquiry list: http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/ mwb: http://www.mywikibiz.com/Directory:Jon_Awbrey knol profile: http://knol.google.com/k/Jon-Awbrey# oeiswiki: http://www.oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey polmic: www.policymic.com/profiles/1110/Jon-Awbrey --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the PEIRCE-L listserv. To remove yourself from this list, send a message to lists...@listserv.iupui.edu with the line "SIGNOFF PEIRCE-L" in the body of the message. To post a message to the list, send it to PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU