Re: [PEIRCE-L] A metaphysical omission of the trichotomy: ens a se and ens ab alio
Jim, List On Aug 5, 2015, at 1:49 PM, Jim Willgoose wrote: Jerry. i diasagree. Can you articulate what it is that you disagree with? (It was a detailed reply!) I think the rhema represents the very possibility of connecting an object to the icon and acheiving a particular proposition. Of course, that is purpose and intent of the definition, is it not? What is it you are seeking to express? 1) being of the nature of H ICON 2) Hx ( or F.. to be completed) RHEME 3) Ha PROPOSITION (completed through the indice) 4) ExFx Argument These four phrases are unintelligible to me. The presuppositions and meanings are not decipherable in the language of CSP. Where does the medad enter? Term logic requires terms! The Peircian medad enters in every sentence of every proposition, does it not? How could it possibly be otherwise? In one sense, it can only be the collection of properties of H, or the immediate object 'a.' Semantically, I have merely moved from This is hydrogen to There is hydrogen So, I guess the ens a se would just be H. What are you talking about? Certainly not ens a se. The object 'a' becomes merely a tool for reference. It strikes me that it doesn't matter that H is, or where it is. The chemical reference system is the table of chemical elements; the ordering of the chemical elements is a consequence of physical measurements and laws. In another sense, I have to separate those properties from the putative object for the sake of cognition. But that is just conceptual. The experience of H would be like heat lightening. unthought so long as it remained that way. Well, that is close to an example that Peirce uses for a medad. For the relations between medad, icons and rhema, see 3.421, MS 410 (p. 11-13) cited by Don Roberts on page 23-24 and 3. 469 on the icons relating indexes to a chemical medad. Jim W The goal is to relate CSP's logic of mathematics /chemistry to the logic of mathematics / chemistry as it is used today, roughly 150 years later. CSP makes a direct comparison to the two logics in W6:37. Letter to Noble on the Nature of Reasoning (1887) He often cites chemical reasoning as examples of his logical processes. Jim, your comments seem to neglect this aspect of the radix (roots) of CSP's logic and realism / pragmatism. I will be away from my desk (and CSP texts) for the next five weeks. Cheers Jerry As a universal system of logic, the trichotomy omits the logical distinction between ens a se and ens ab alio. The metaphysical importance of ens a se and ens ab alio is most obvious in the reasoning that links the concept of icon to the concept of rhema in relation to medads and chemical radicals (this is central to his theory of graphs.) From: jerry_lr_chand...@me.com Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 10:13:49 -0500 CC: jimwillgo...@msn.com To: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] A metaphysical omission of the trichotomy: ens a se and ens ab alio List, Jim: (At the bottom of this post are several relevant citations, all from the Commens dictionary.) Jim writes: However, the ens a se would not be metaphysically necessary! In regard to this assertion, my view of the concept of metaphysics is simple - it excludes the term necessary. Metaphysical beliefs express beliefs about the universality of beliefs, so I have no response to your assertion. Thus, an atom, as you suggest, might possess its 'being-in/from-itself' but fail to do so necessarily. Today, from the perspective of 21st Century science, the concept of a chemical atom is based a huge collection of facts and measurements. (I listed five components of them in my post to Ben.) Conceptually, the concept of an atom is sort of a rhetorical conundrum from an algebraic perspective of the logical terms independent, interdependent and dependent, such as they may be used in the sense of everyday linear algebra. Independent as a physical object as in the sense of thermodynamics of perfect gases. Interdependent as a consequence of the physical structure of every atom as a nucleus and electron(s). Dependent from the physical recognition of the atomic table of elements, which demands that all atomic numbers are ordered as a set of relatives. Note that the CSP concept of teridentity is necessary for the concept of the interdependent of the physical structure. Physically, in this terminology, the science of quantum mechanics is a consequence of the teridentity of atoms. From Suarez: Instead of dividing being into infinite and finite, it can also be divided into ens a seand ens ab alio, i.e., being that is from itself and being that is from another. As an atom is, physically, a very very small object, the question of finiteness is a matter of fact and corresponds with the algebraic notion of independent mathematical object, as in
Re: [PEIRCE-L] 2 books newly listed at Arisbe
Tom, For my part, I failed to read the architectonic article by Atkin years ago even though I knew of its title, and I didn't know that the article covered Peirce's philosophy in the order of Peirce's classifications of areas in philosophy. So when I bragged here years ago about having re-organized the Wikipedia Peirce article to unfold in accord with Peirce's classifications, I gave Atkin no credit for having earlier done the same with one of his encyclopedia articles on Peirce. (I also gave Peirce no credit for having done something similar in his Carnegie Application because at that time I had forgotten about that, having read very little of it.) To top it off, years ago at peirce-l, I harshly and wrong-headedly criticized Atkin's account of Peirce's immediate, dynamical, and final/normal interpretants, as regards certain points about which Atkin was in fact quite correct (the final/normal interpretant determines the dynamical interpretant, and those interpretants determine the immediate interpretant). So I tend to feel a little guilty when name of Albert Atkin comes up! All biographical and overview texts on Peirce that I know of are linked in a special list at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sanders_Peirce_bibliography#Overviews_and_biographies Best, Ben On 8/6/2015 1:54 PM, Ozzie wrote: Ben ~ Thanks very much for posting this, particularly the links to Atkin's encyclopedia articles. I especially appreciated the second one, on Architectonic Philosophy. http://www.iep.utm.edu/peircear/ Regards, Tom Wyrick On Aug 5, 2015, at 5:10 PM, Benjamin Udell bud...@nyc.rr.com mailto:bud...@nyc.rr.com wrote: List, I've added two books to the Books 2006-2015 page at Arisbe. Albert Atkin has written a book _Peirce_. He wrote a number of Peirce articles in online philosophy encyclopedias: ALBERT ATKIN * Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://www.iep.utm.edu/peircebi/ http://www.iep.utm.edu/peircebi/ * C.S. Peirce's Architectonic Philosophy in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://www.iep.utm.edu/peircear/ http://www.iep.utm.edu/peircear/ * C.S. Peirce's Pragmatism in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://www.iep.utm.edu/peircepr/ http://www.iep.utm.edu/peircepr/ * Peirce's Theory of Signs in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce-semiotics/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce-semiotics/ Here's the entry on his new book _Peirce_: * Peirce. Albert Atkin. Series: The Routledge Philosophers. Routledge, August, 2015. Hardcover, Paperback https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415488327 https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415488327 316 pages. o /Publisher's description:/ Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is generally regarded as the founder of pragmatism, and one of the greatest ever American philosophers. Peirce is also widely known for his work on truth, his foundational work in mathematical logic, and an influential theory of signs, or semiotics. Albert Atkin introduces the full spectrum of Peirce’s thought for those coming to his work for the first time. The book begins with an overview of Peirce’s life and work, considering his early and long-standing interest in logic and science, and highlighting important views on the structure of philosophical thought. Atkin then explains Peirce’s accounts of pragmatism and truth examining important later developments to these theories. He then introduces Peirce’s full accounts of semiotics, examines his foundational work on formal and graphical logic, and introduces Peirce’s account of metaphysics, the least understood aspect of his philosophy. The final chapter considers Peirce’s legacy and influence on the thought of philosophers such as John Dewey and Richard Rorty, as well as highlighting areas where Peirce’s ideas could still provide important insights for contemporary philosophers. Including chapter summaries, suggestions for further reading and a glossary, this invaluable introduction and guide to Peirce’s philosophy is essential reading for those new to his work. o Faculty page http://www.mq.edu.au/about_us/faculties_and_departments/faculty_of_arts/department_of_philosophy/staff/albert_atkin/. The other book that I've added is by Ben Novak, and we discussed it here at peirce-l: * Hitler and Abductive Logic: The Strategy of a Tyrant. Ben Novak. Lexington Books, May 2014. Hardcover, eBook https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739192245/Hitler-and-Abductive-Logic-The-Strategy-of-a-Tyrant# https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739192245/Hitler-and-Abductive-Logic-The-Strategy-of-a-Tyrant# 256 pages. o
[PEIRCE-L] Phaneron, Cybersemiotic Star, and Gnergy Tetrahedron may embody an ITR (Irreducible Triadic Relation)
Hi,
(*1*) S. Brier constructed a comprehensive theory of life world called
cybersemiotics by integrating information theory or cybernetics,
first-person consciousness, and Peircean semiotics [1]. His cybersemiotic
theory is symbolized by the so-called the “Cybersemiotic Star” (CS)
consisting of the four nodes labeled *Energy, Life, Consciousness, *and*
Meaning* [1, Fig. 9.1]. This diagram is amazingly similar in structure to
the semiotics of life theory depicted as the gnergy tetrahedron (GT) as
shown in Figure 47 in [2] and Figure 10.7 in [3]. Both these CS and GT
diagrams contain four nodes with similar names as evident in *Table 1*
below. The four nodes of the gnergy tetrahedron can be shown to “covers”
the four nodes of the cybersemiotic star but not *vice versa. *For example,
Matter covers Life, indicating that matter is necessary for life but life
is not necessary for matter, since there are matter that is not a part of
living organisms. For this reason, in mathematical terms, cybersemiotics
can be viewed as a surjective co-domain of the gnergy tetrahedron, or
cybersemiotics can be viewed as a function of the gnergy tertrahedron. One
consequence of this analysis seems to be that cybersemiotics is supported
by the gnergy tetrahedron. As will be discussed in (*2*), the difference
between CS and GT is that the former is a description of life world, while
GT is a theoretical model of it embodying two main principles, the
principles of *supplementarity* and *complementarity* first enunciated by
N. Bohr based on quantum physics in the 1920's [4].
*Table 1.* A comparison between the cybersemiotic star (CS) [1] and the
gnergy tetrahedron (GT) [2, 3]: CS is the surjective co-domain of GT, or
CS is the function of GT that embodies the principle of supplementarity and
complementarity [4].
0 Edge
0
Node 0
*Morphisms *[5, 6]
*Functors *[5, 6]
(*Supplementarity*)
[4]
*Natural Transformation *[5, 6]
(*Complementarity*)
[4]
Cybernetic
Star [1]
Gnergy
Tetrahedron
[2, 3]
1
*Energy*
*Energy*
*Mattergy* [4]
*GNERGY** [4, 7]
2
*Life*
*Matter*
3
*Consciousness*
*Life*
*Liformation*** [4]
4
*Meaning*
*Information*
*Coined in 1991 by combining Greek stems, gn- from gnosis meaning
knowledge and -ergy from ergon meaning work or energy [7]. Discrete units
of gnergy are called gnergons whose existence have been experimentally
demonstrated in the forms of conformons, conformational strains stored in
sequence-specific sites within biopoymers such as DNA supercoils and SIDS
(stress-induced duplex destabilizations), etc. (reviewed in [8]).
**Coined in 2012 [4] by combining life and information in analogy to
mattergy which is the combination of matter and energy.
(*2*) Another way of comparing the cybersemiotic star and the gnergy
tetrahedron is on the basis of the ITR (Irreducible Triadic Relation)
template/diagram as shown in Figure 1 below.
f
g
*Phaneron* --- *Cybersemiotic Star* --- *Genergy
Tetrahedron*
(Phenomenon) (Phaneroscopy)
(Models/Theories/Habits)
[Firstness] [Secondness]
[Thirdness]
ObjectRepresentamen
Interpretant
{Reality} {Names}
{Ideas}
|
^
|
|
|___|
h
Figure 1. The ITR (Irreducible Triadic Relation) as the organizing
principle of human knowing.
As you can see, Figure 1 consists of 5 layers, to each of which the ITR can
be applied. The meaning of the structure-preserving mappings, f, g and h,
would depend on the layers involved, and my current suggestions are given
below (if anyone has better ideas or corrections, please let me know):
Layer 1: f = description; g = theorizing; h = intersubjective
correspondence
Layer 2: f = description; g = cognition; h = intersubjective
correspondence
Layer 3: f = perception; g = cognition; h = reasoning, thinking
Layer 4*: *f = sign production; g = sign interpretation; h = grounding
Layer 5: f = description; g = abstraction, generalization, theorizing; h
= intersubjective correspondence
(*3*) In Figure 1, Represntamen is considered to be Secondness, whereas
Peirce often (if not all the time ?) considered it as Firstness. Any
illuminating comments on this topic would be appreciated.
(*4*) According to Figure 1, the age-old debate about *realism*,
*nominalism* and *idealism* may be resolved by viewing these isms as the
prescinded versions of the *irreducible triad* of Reality, Names and
Ideas.
(*5*) To the extent that the above speculations turn out to be valid, to
that extent, ITR may be considered to provide a guiding
Re: [PEIRCE-L] 2 books newly listed at Arisbe
Ben ~ Thanks very much for posting this, particularly the links to Atkin's encyclopedia articles. I especially appreciated the second one, on Architectonic Philosophy. http://www.iep.utm.edu/peircear/ Regards, Tom Wyrick On Aug 5, 2015, at 5:10 PM, Benjamin Udell bud...@nyc.rr.com wrote: List, I've added two books to the Books 2006-2015 page at Arisbe. Albert Atkin has written a book _Peirce_. He wrote a number of Peirce articles in online philosophy encyclopedias: ALBERT ATKIN Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://www.iep.utm.edu/peircebi/ C.S. Peirce's Architectonic Philosophy in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://www.iep.utm.edu/peircear/ C.S. Peirce's Pragmatism in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://www.iep.utm.edu/peircepr/ Peirce's Theory of Signs in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce-semiotics/ Here's the entry on his new book _Peirce_: Peirce. Albert Atkin. Series: The Routledge Philosophers. Routledge, August, 2015. Hardcover, Paperback https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415488327 316 pages. Publisher's description: Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is generally regarded as the founder of pragmatism, and one of the greatest ever American philosophers. Peirce is also widely known for his work on truth, his foundational work in mathematical logic, and an influential theory of signs, or semiotics. Albert Atkin introduces the full spectrum of Peirce’s thought for those coming to his work for the first time. The book begins with an overview of Peirce’s life and work, considering his early and long-standing interest in logic and science, and highlighting important views on the structure of philosophical thought. Atkin then explains Peirce’s accounts of pragmatism and truth examining important later developments to these theories. He then introduces Peirce’s full accounts of semiotics, examines his foundational work on formal and graphical logic, and introduces Peirce’s account of metaphysics, the least understood aspect of his philosophy. The final chapter considers Peirce’s legacy and influence on the thought of philosophers such as John Dewey and Richard Rorty, as well as highlighting areas where Peirce’s ideas could still provide important insights for contemporary philosophers. Including chapter summaries, suggestions for further reading and a glossary, this invaluable introduction and guide to Peirce’s philosophy is essential reading for those new to his work. Faculty page. The other book that I've added is by Ben Novak, and we discussed it here at peirce-l: Hitler and Abductive Logic: The Strategy of a Tyrant. Ben Novak. Lexington Books, May 2014. Hardcover, eBook https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739192245/Hitler-and-Abductive-Logic-The-Strategy-of-a-Tyrant# 256 pages. Publisher's description: Adolf Hitler is the greatest mystery of the 20th century, and the mystery surrounding him consists of two unanswered questions that have baffled biographers and historians. First, how did he ever rise to power? Second, who was he really? Hitler had the power to mesmerize crowds as the most dynamic orator of the modern age. Yet, his power was not in his ideas, which he collected from the gutter sheets of Vienna, nor was it in his personality; his biographers describe him as an unperson and his character as a void and a black hole. What, then, was the source of his power? Was he a medium or a magician with paranormal powers, as many contemporaries thought? Or did he have a secret or method that has not yet been revealed? Ben Novak spent fourteen years searching for the secret of Hitler's political success and his power as a speaker. Hitler's most astute contemporary observer, Konrad Heiden, who wrote the first objective books on Hitler warning that this man was the greatest massdisturber in world history, suggested that Hitler's secret lay in his use of eine eigentiimliche art von Logik,or a peculiar form of logic. Beginning with this clue, Novak finds that there is a new form of logic in accordance with Heiden's description and examples that can explain Hitler's phenomenal political success. This new form of logic, called abduction, was discovered by an American philosopher, Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), who is rapidly becoming America's most well-known philosopher and logician. Abduction is a third form of logic, in addition to deduction and induction. Unlike the other forms of logic, abduction is based on instinct and has a power over emotions. Novak argues that Hitler was the first politician to apply the logic of abduction to politics. This book provides the first coherent account of Hitler's youth that ties together all the known facts, clearly showing the genesis of the strangest and most terrible man of the
