t the only one in this forum who
would like to hear more about Peirce's "semiotic animism" as you phrased it.
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quot; which will never *actually *be achieved,
either.
I must admit that I don't see what you're disagreeing with.
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EP 2:120; CP 1.211
Final causation does not determine in what particular way it is to be
brought about, but only that the result shall have a certain *general
characte**r**. *(emphasis added by me)
In my view, the 'general character' of the evolution of the Cosmos through,
shall we say, in
Jon, list,
You concluded: "Any comments? I am guessing that these topics must simply
not be of much interest, or people are just very busy these days, since I
find it hard to believe that everyone agrees with everything I have been
posting. :-)"
I would imagine that there are several on this lis
es, etc.
Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order
to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with
what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself
deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philo
Terry, list,
Terry asked: Is there an estimate of what those ongoing maintenance and
repair costs [for the Peirce monument] might be?
I haven't personally been involved in the project, but I'll look into it.
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ans for permanent upkeep with finally be
devised.
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On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 6:18 AM, Terry L Rankin
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> Thank
re,
where Peirce and his wife, Juliette, stayed on their arrival in Milford on
April 28, 1887.
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On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 2:08 AM, Everett,
he committee is now asking interested members of the Peirce
community to make generous contributions so that the monument may be
erected soon.
Please see the complete announcement below which includes a link to
information on how you may contribute.
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Peirce's Last Hou
imes more
potent a greenhouse gas than carbon.
I think, Gene, that you would, however, find it difficult to find in Peirce
very much support for your thesis. However, in our age especially, I think
it's true that science, and especially technology, have been plundered and
misused--just as the b
whatsoever, so I have no
idea what this has to do with anything, let alone my last post. On the face
of it, it isn't Peirce-related at all. Conspiracy? Really? World-spectator?
Really?
Certainly "conspiracy" sounds offensive and, as such, has no place on the
list.
Gary Richmo
tioned
above, so that much of the population seems, well, almost brain-washed by
the propaganda and "alternative facts" thrown at them every day such that
they, for example, often vote against their own best interests. And all
this too is, I believe, anticipated in a close reading o
d *that* lecture series and not "Evolutionary Love."
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On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 1:25 PM, Stephen C. Rose wrote:
> I think K
men (being yet the tiniest fraction of a percentage of the world
population) and the corrupt institutions they've put in place and over
which they have almost unlimited control.
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irit of Peirce, I would be delighted to have you prove
me wrong. Then I'd have learned something I hadn't known and corrected an
error in my thinking. Peirce called this approach 'Critical Commonsensism',
and commented that his Pragmatism could be thought of as but a develop
s without saying, I'd hope, that the positive results of
scientific inquiry, for example, new technologies, may be applied to
matters of vital importance (for example, in medicine, etc.)
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sible
that we are basing our recent analyses at least on Peirce's own model of
triadic semiosis (which is hardly linear), whereas I find a certain
"linearity" in, for example, your own model of input-mediation-output, your
notion of "dynamic transformic nature" in a semiotic c
particular I'm wondering what your
understanding of the nature of the Immediate Object is.
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On Thu, Mar 1,
n; just
two Dynamic Objects directly and reciprocally affecting each other (cf. EP
2:411; 1907).
But here we are speaking of Science, while I believe that Art is--even if
rarely--able to perfectly represent its Object, one which however, it
retrospectively, so to speak, creates.
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f when one considers Sign-action in the
light of continuity.*
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> List:
>
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PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on
hicago* (2010). In *Heller*, the Supreme Court resolved
any remaining circuit splits <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_split> by
ruling that the Second Amendment protects an individual right. Although the
Second Amendment is the only Constitutional amendment with a prefatory
clause, such
meant only to demonstrate one way in which
Peircean thought is being effectively employed in consideration of
contemporary issues.
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erested in moving from the abstract to the concrete stage of
this inquiry, but only after we have settled a bit more firmly on what a
Quasi-mind is; then on what a perfect Sign is; then if the two really are
one. Once we have some agreement on *that* perhaps we can move on to a more
concrete experi
Jerry, list,
Would you please explain why you posted this to the list, especially in
this thread. I cannot see what pertinence it has to the discussion of
quasi-minds?
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rmination
of a quasi-mind. The quasi-mind is itself a sign, a determinable sign.
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d ideas
from "Pragmatism" in preparation for beginning a discussion.
So, for now, especially as I'm occupied with other matters needing my
attention, I'll drop off the list for at least the rest of the week,
perhaps longer, and try to find time to re-read "Pragmatism."
y you've been arguing that it is a degenerate Sign. Now
you've written "that what happens within the child is Sign-action, not
dyadic action/reaction;" but are you saying that only if the child cried
something like "Maman!" and not "Aie!" (which, again, I find t
nce again think that
perhaps you are enthralled--at least in this hypothetical case--by semiotic
abstraction, especially abstract terminology, and in doing so have
disconnected your analysis from not only "the life of the sign," but from
life more generally--from semiosis as it is lived
tive
claims and suggestions (for example, that the child's scream may not be
sign-action at all) which seem, well, strained.
So, I'm going to leave it to others to offer constructive criticism.
Meanwhile, I'll stand by my previous analyses.
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in the future for the child; not
leaving the child alone in the kitchen in the future for the mother. Again,
this stark difference in habit-change strongly suggests to me two different
signs, not one.
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categories. For Normative Science in
general being the science of the laws of conformity of things to ends,
esthetics considers those things whose ends are to embody qualities of
feeling, ethics those things whose ends lie in action, and logic those
things whose end is to represent something.
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on my thought that Edwina may
be using 'Form' in a different sense than Peirce such that in her sense it
*would* connect more to 3ns than to 1ns. And of course I'd be especially
eager to hear what Edwina thinks about that interpretation.
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meaning of 'Form', while there seems
to me that for Peirce 'Form' *is *1ns, Edwina's analysis of Form seems to
me more related to structure--the forms of the organization of related
elements in a material system, rather than the forms of the elements
themselves. In that physic
ot;. . . the list, while not a community (rather a forum, a place) still
requires a consideration of *all* who gather here."
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on (and not only for active
contributors) .
In short, such self-discipline could possibly benefit all of us:
participants and lurkers.
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, I suggest reading (or rereading) NEM 4:292-300, not just EP
2:303-304, to see how he clearly aligned Form with 1ns, Matter with 2ns,
and Entelechy with 3ns.
I agree with Jon that Peirce aligns Form with 1ns and that it might be
prudent to stick with his usage.
Any thoughts?
Bes
active participants and observers--when so many
other philosophy and semiotics fora have floundered.
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re being fewer postings--could be that
such an approach might allow for more time for additional thoughtful
reflection on the matter(s) under consideration (and not only for active
contributors) .
But, again, please post as you see fit!
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nterpretant (so part of the
child's Sign), but for the mother the cry is a Sign, a Rhematic Indexical
Sinsign. And this final point again brings up for me the interesting idea
of "Signs of SIgns," since the child's Interpretant Sign becomes a
different Sign for her mother (in my v
represent other signs, etc.
I'd like to hear from folk on the list how they might characterize the
Signs and semiosis involved in this example.
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eeing that word doesn't read English?
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On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 9:33 AM, Mary Libertin
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> Dan and Pei
st
Now the vase is gone
and I am left
alone
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> For Jon S's surv
ar to modern languages. [—] A rhe*me
is defined as a sign which is represented in its signified interpretant as
if it were a character or mark (or as being so).*
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some Bellucci to see if I can make more
sense of it in the light of Stjernfelt's work and Gary f's and Jeff's
analyses, also very intriguing.
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*meant *to say that your emphasis seems to be on latter (the external
sign), mine on the internal (the cognitive sign that 'responds' to that
external sign as immediate object.
Sorry about that!
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n-cognitive one. I see you as emphasizing the external, existential sign,
whereas I always tend to turn to the cognitive one (as at least
springboard). In "a sign of a sign" your emphasis seems to me to be the
former, mine the latter.
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be helpful. I
think it might be easier to get a 'handle' on this question focusing on
human semiosis (anyhow, I'm finding the 'bird' example 'tricky').
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y in a flock of birds?
OK, hazy thinking for now. But circling around this seems to be of
potential value imo, at least for me.
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that e*very species of actual cognition is of the nature of
a sign.* [—]
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On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 9:22 PM, Edwina Taborsk
I hope so. On the other hand, in certain matters (e.g., "the sign of a
sign") I remain confused and uncertain. And for me the terminology remains
a morass which I due soon to leave to others to try to sort out.
Still, I think both you and I, Jon, always enter into a discussion such as
this
, it *cannot *be a
proposition. Yet obviously it is *embodied *as a Sinsign, as all
Qualisigns (and Legisigns) *must *be, and a Sinsign *can *be a Dicisign.
Does the statue, as an embodied Qualisign, turn out to be a Dicent Sinsign
of a peculiar kind? If so, what are S and P in the particular prop
ism, and
classification of sciences. In February I hope to introduce a topic in
pragmatism that I've been drafting a message regarding for a while now.
(I'll be reading responses to this post--if any--but this will be my last
message for about a week at least.)
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ow we learn" example, however, before I consider
retracting them. Perhaps I'll discover that I have myself completely
misunderstood Peirce's semeiotic terminology.
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not replied to my response to his three quotation and comments
(today he discussed only the final part of my message on techniques I
employ, making thought experiments or observing my own semioses "on the
fly"), so I have no idea why he coined the expression "Partial) signs,"
in this matter. But to reduce my view
(you wrote, "what you have in mind") as a matter of some mere sense of mine
of a "temporal immediacy," when in fact it is not at all my view at all,
but part of my process, is for me at least, not presently very helpful as
we explore this inter
tainly occurred in a fraction of a
second, a 'moment' as Peirce analyzes the minimum of time. And, to boot,
one can see in that moment several semiotic events: the qualisign which is
the heat, the resultant pain (another qualisign), the immediate withdrawing
of her hand (involving now 2ns),
on S, I too am likely to remain unconvinced by Bellucci "that,
according to Peirce, only propositions have immediate objects"
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Then there are 3 divisions that relate to the Object. One according to *the
form under which the Sign presents its Object. This is of course **the
object **as the sign represents it**, i.e. the Immediate Object *(emphasis
added by GR).
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ogies, etc. They most certainly need not be in conflict. Indeed,
one would hope that they would mutually fecundate, even fructify each
other. There is also the real possibility and practice of inter- and
transdisciplinarity.
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Gary R
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change my thinking--which, again, is most
certainly Peirce's (many passages to that effect)--about the omnipresence
of all three categories in every phenomenon.
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is so basic to Peirce's thinking
throughout cenoscopic philosophy (but, perhaps, especially in phenomenology
and logic as semiotics) that I wonder what prompted your question.
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phenomenology and semiotic. Semiotic will most certainly employ the
discoveries of phenomenology, but that's an entirely different matter.
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fficiently explored nor developed
(with the possible exception of the third branch of the normative sciences,
namely, logic as semiotic).
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odern triadic semeiotic (or, as I like to think
of it, trichotomic semeiotic, as involving the categories at almost every
stage of his semeiotic analysis)?
But, this is just a quick guess; and there may be more to these passages
than I've suggested here involving, as you've suggested, phe
for Peirce, theoretical rhetoric (methodeutic, esp. in its
including a pragmatistic theory of inquiry) is the final branch for which
the other two prepare.
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sychic sciences--has come a very
long way since Peirce's day and a new outline of idioscopy would no doubt
look very different from Peirce's. But one would expect to find
biosemiotics among the special sciences and most certainly not as a
sub-division of the *normative science* of logic as s
unknown and
which having discovered these phenomena use the same observational methods
to push the study of them further.
Again, why is any of this controversial?
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actice of applied psychology (but probably not vice versa).
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On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 12:21 PM, Stephen C. Rose
wro
interpretant.” This idea of "consisting" leads astray, in my opinion.
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On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 6:19 PM, w
s
"a special relationship where each input has a single output." I don't see
how this gels with the snippet of Peirce's above (quite a characteristic
one, I believe).
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List,
I'm forwarding Kalevi Kull's announcement of Gatherings in Biosemiotics
2018 at Berkeley.
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-- Forwarded message --
From: Kalevi Kull
Date: Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 2:08 PM
Subject: [biosemiotics:9256] GB 18 – Berkeley
To: biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee
Dear colleagues
ies to Peirce's
thinking. Has there been any work (articles, dissertations, etc.) comparing
the thinking of the two? As I recall, John, some of your papers touch on
this. But I'm wondering if there has been any more extensive work in this
area?
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l Stamets describes ways trees and other plants have
communication through fungal networks. They provide something like a neural
net would for a brain.
. . .
Here is a video on fungi where Stamets reports some of his work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAw_Zzge49c
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[imag
by
some specific 'external object'. It is that dynamic object which remains
the same (e.g. the bird sound), while each immediate object so determined
will be specific to some individual (person or animal).
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gic |MS [R] 499(s)
…*every sign* has *two* objects. It has that object which it represents
itself to have, its Immediate Object, which has no other being than that of
being represented to be, a mere Representative Being. . . (emphasis added) (
*Commens*)
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Jon, list,
Congratulations, Jon. I am delighted to see your excellent essay published.
I highly recommend it to list members.
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the varieties of interpretants which Peirce outlines as well as in
consideration of such fields as biosemiotics.
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ne can't look at the 'content' of these two sciences but see how
far 'physical' and 'psychical' sciences have advanced since Peirce's time.
But of course he predicted that that advance would necessarily have to be.
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ience, but also importantly to
reflect on our experience in order to, come to better understandings of the
nature of physical pain, to, for example, discover means to control it
medically for not only humans, but for primates, other mammals, etc.
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ke to discuss at some point along the way
(perhaps even in a separate thread).
Gf: ‘Experience’ itself is only a word, like other words: how then do you
reach the point where you can judge for yourself whether experience is your
only teacher or not?
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Taborsky, Auke van Breeman, and yourself.
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to think. . .” CSP
The corollary Peirce gives to this is, perhaps, even more famous.
So to all a Happy New Year, one full of many good and fruitful things,
including lively philosophical conversation in this forum!
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topian one, at least not in my view.
In any event, and towards the new year, to paraphrase Robert Browning, our
human reach should exceed our grasp.
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resent
discussion). Truthfully, what I most want to say, perhaps as a possible
motto for the new year, is something Tom Peters, business guru, once wrote:
"Celebrate what you want to see more of."
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healthy and productive 2018. Here's one of my favorite
New Year's quotes.
And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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y making such
generalizations as I just did and to which you
properly reacted. Please accept my apology. I will make it public if you
wish.
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easoning."
http://www.jfsowa.com/pubs/analog.htm.
I see that Jon S has addressed this well, so I'll stop here.
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pear that many
Christians, esp. of the evangelical fundamentalist stripe, have lost it (or
at least suppress it).
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n why we
should not say that a sign is a (triadic) relation, but that a *sign
relation* is triadic — and its *correlates* should not be regarded as
* parts*.
I tend to strongly agree with his conclusion.
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nger
that in the new semiosis.
I'll have to call it a day on list discussion as not one but two sets of
nieces and their husbands are arriving as house guests in the next few
hours and there's much to do before they arrive.
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re *made the object* of another--a new and different sign.
Anyhow, that is my understanding of the interpretant in semiosis.
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it may, I think that there is a great deal in Peirce which is
compatible with an attitude and philosophy of meliorism, that, for example,
wherever it is up to us to put our shoulder to some task towards improving
our human lot that we ought do that.
Best,
Gary R
[image: Gary Richmond]
*Gar
tures and, in my view, very useful
commentary (even if one doesn't necessarily agree with all of it) presently
remains my primary focus.
Best,
Gary R
[image: Gary Richmond]
*Gary Richmond*
*Philosophy and Critical Thinking*
*Communication Studies*
*LaGuardia College of the City University
irce
himself will change his mind characterizing some of his trichotomies,
although the later changes always seem to me to be closer to the mark. For
me--and I think for Peirce--tricategorial thinking represents a kind of
heuristic. I certainly am not married to any trichotomies which I have
posited.
Best,
is most
useful for her purposes ought be left up to the individual inquirer, that
we ought not insist on what is right or wrong (seek consensus) for others
in this matter.
Best,
Gary R
[image: Gary Richmond]
*Gary Richmond*
*Philosophy and Critical Thinking*
*Communication Studies*
*LaGuardia Co
for
that.)
I would be very interested in why you think that anyone here is making such
an effort toward consensus building on Peirce-L, and examples are always
quite helpful.
Best,
Gary R
[image: Gary Richmond]
*Gary Richmond*
*Philosophy and Critical Thinking*
*Communication Studies*
*LaGuard
on's proposal (although not the whole *tout court* as you
and perhaps some others here apparently do, Mike), I have been personally
stimulated to do some thinking I might otherwise not have done had he not
made it, and I personally thank him for that.
And I thank you also for your criticism, M
tween the mind and the
external world."
Best,
Gary R
[image: Gary Richmond]
*Gary Richmond*
*Philosophy and Critical Thinking*
*Communication Studies*
*LaGuardia College of the City University of New York*
*718 482-5690*
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