[PEIRCE-L] Semeiosis and Complex Systems (was Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited)

2019-05-26 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
g himself are likely to be thought even more *gauche* than they really are; and they are bad enough at best. Pretty much all he can do toward rendering this writing perspicuous, beyond giving concrete examples whenever he can discover the need of them, is as far as possible always to use each word in a single sense. (

[PEIRCE-L] Direct vs. Indirect Experience (was Trinity, Continuity, and the Cosmotheandric)

2019-05-26 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
disagree? Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 1:24 PM wrote: > Jeff, JAS, Gary R, list, > > Having said all I have to say a

Re: Trinity, Continuity, and the Cosmotheandric, was, [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-21 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
d was missing from what you actually posted, so I will hold off on further comment and ask you first to provide the quote with the formatting that you intended. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAl

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-21 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
relation of _ to _," which therefore signifies the Proposition's Interpretant. In fact, this is precisely the example that Peirce gave elsewhere of a sentence in which the continuous predicate is expressed entirely by *syntax*. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Trinity, Continuity, and the Cosmotheandric

2019-05-21 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
below > > On Tue 21/05/19 3:12 PM , Jon Alan Schmidt jonalanschm...@gmail.com sent: > > Edwina, List: > > 1] ET: I don't think that these discussions on religion and logic have > anything to do with bridging the chasm between religion and science. They > have no scientific

Re: Aw: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Trinity, Continuity, and the Cosmotheandric

2019-05-21 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
nal premiss, if every Sign is determined by an Object other than itself, then it *necessarily *follows that the Universe is determined by an Object other than itself. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchm

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Trinity, Continuity, and the Cosmotheandric

2019-05-21 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
e creation of the universe, which ... is going on today and never will be done" (CP 1.615, EP 2:255; 1903). Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Tue, May

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Methodeutic for resolving quotation wars (was Continuity...

2019-05-20 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
ot;Do not block the way of inquiry," and share the desire that you and others have expressed to apply his thought more broadly--but hopefully to *clarify *it; i.e., make *our *ideas, *Peirce's *ideas, and the *differences *between them clear. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professiona

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Trinity, Continuity, and the Cosmotheandric

2019-05-20 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
onsider that putting them together leads to a false > conclusion -especially if we differ on the meaning of the terms [Sign]. > > Edwina > > On Mon 20/05/19 11:28 AM , Jon Alan Schmidt jonalanschm...@gmail.com sent: > > Edwina, List: > > ET: All dogs are animals/Al

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Methodeutic for resolving quotation wars (was Continuity...

2019-05-20 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
ot; to be the constituents of the third Universe of Signs/Necessitants. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 10:56 AM John F So

Re: Trinity, Continuity, and the Cosmotheandric, was, [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-20 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
e any different? Are you perhaps suggesting that *entia rationis* are the *only *non-existent Realities that are knowable? Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Su

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Trinity, Continuity, and the Cosmotheandric

2019-05-20 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
the conclusion, as well. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 8:04 AM Edwina Taborsky wrote: > JAS, list > > The probl

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Methodeutic for resolving quotation wars (was Continuity...

2019-05-20 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
ing actions of semiosis. Therefore, > neither the DO nor the DI can be understood as fully separate from the > semiosis function. > > 4] We will have to continue to disagree with regard to the ten classes of > Signs, which I clearly see as his analysis of the Sign as an > irreducib

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Trinity, Continuity, and the Cosmotheandric

2019-05-19 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
of God's, we can catch a fragment of His Thought, as it were. (CP 6.502; c. 1906) Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 2:01 PM John

Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Methodeutic for resolving quotation wars (was Continuity...

2019-05-19 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
once*--used "Sign" for a triad. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 7:31 AM Edwina Taborsky wrote: > ALL representame

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-18 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
ws necessarily* from certain basic tenets of Peirce's Semeiotic. Someone who is unfamiliar with or takes exception to the latter will obviously not find my approach even remotely persuasive. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Lay

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Methodeutic for resolving quotation wars (was Continuity...

2019-05-18 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
93; 1905). He never--*not once*--used "Sign" for a triad, since a triad is always a *relation*, while a Sign is always a *correlate*. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Trinity, Continuity, and the Cosmotheandric, was, [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-18 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
r a *part *of God. ET: I recall Peirce's outline of the emergence of our universe [1.412] and the description is most clearly an action of self-organization. No, it is not; and even if it were, Peirce later described that account as "faulty," as I discuss in my online paper <https://tidsskrift.dk/s

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Methodeutic for resolving quotation wars (was Continuity...

2019-05-18 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
h no basis in anything that I have actually advocated. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 5:32 PM Edwina Taborsky wrote: > JAS list

Re: Re: Re: Re: Trinity, Continuity, and the Cosmotheandric, was, [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-18 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
n the Universes of Matter, Mind, and Ideas, but the Sole Creator of every content of them without exception" (R 843:15; 1908). Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSch

Re: Trinity, Continuity, and the Cosmotheandric, was, [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-18 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
nse? Yes, I will try to keep this in mind going forward--and also try to refrain from further theological nitpicking accordingly. :-) Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Methodeutic for resolving quotation wars (was Continuity...

2019-05-18 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
upporting argumentation that I have now presented, expounded, and defended at considerable length. Taking my own statements out of context is just as inappropriate as doing so with Peirce's statements. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lu

Re: Re: Re: Trinity, Continuity, and the Cosmotheandric, was, [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-18 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
s. Calling the Universe a Symbol and an Argument (both singular) does not in any way *reduce *its complexity, but rather *recognizes *its complexity--an Argument is the *most complex* kind of Sign that there is! Nevertheless, like any other Sign, it must be determined by an Object other than

Re: Re: Trinity, Continuity, and the Cosmotheandric, was, [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-18 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
about the nature of semeiosis, the definition of "Representamen," and whether "Sign" designates a triad or a correlate are well-documented; so we need not rehash them. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.c

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Methodeutic for resolving quotation wars (was Continuity...

2019-05-18 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
s with any deductive argumentation, anyone who rejects the conclusion is *rationally required* to deny at least one of the premisses--each of which Peirce *explicitly *affirmed. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.Li

Re: Trinity, Continuity, and the Cosmotheandric, was, [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-18 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
mother of Jesus, who was God. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 11:16 PM Gary Richmond wrote: > Mary, List, > > You wrote: &g

Re: Trinity, Continuity, and the Cosmotheandric, was, [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-18 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
ubordinate to the Father in His *humanity*--not in His *divinity*, as the Word. He is "God of God, light of light, very God of very God, begotten not made, being of one substance with the Father, by Whom all things were made" (Nicene Creed). All three Persons are "coeternal and c

Re: Re: Trinity, Continuity, and the Cosmotheandric, was, [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-17 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
My position is that it is not a matter of whether there *is *such evidence either way, but rather how one *evaluates *the evidence. "A Neglected Argument" expresses one sense in which *Peirce *affirmed that there *is *empirical (i.e., experiential) evidence for the Reality of God. Regards,

Re: Trinity, Continuity, and the Cosmotheandric, was, [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-17 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
scripts, I suspect that you and I can legitimately say that we have gotten to know him quite well by now. How is that possible? Why would God be any different? Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonA

Re: Trinity, Continuity, and the Cosmotheandric, was, [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-17 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth ... For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. (John 1:14-17; ESV) Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt

Re: Trinity, Continuity, and the Cosmotheandric, was, [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-16 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
to our thinking of features of each Universe as purposed; and this will stand or fall with the hypothesis. Yet a purpose essentially involves growth, and so cannot be attributed to God. Still it will, according to the hypothesis, be less false to speak so than to represent God as purposeless. (CP 6.466, EP

Re: Trinity, Continuity, and the Cosmotheandric, was, [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-16 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
that the *logos **was* God (rather than a Demiurge or blind agent); and John 1:3 affirms that all things were *made* by the *logos*. I look forward to seeing what else you have to say! Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.Lin

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-16 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
position that the entire Universe is *not *a Sign. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 2:41 PM Edwina Taborsky wrote: > JAS - Ag

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-16 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
"a creator conceived as in organic connection with the creation," rather than a "creator from whom the creation is conceived as separated." - "[T]he world, or the soul of the world ... either is [God] or is in God." In other words, Peirce *did *hold that

Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-16 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
according to Peirce, it *is *a Sign, so it *must *have an external-to-itself Object. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 10:36 AM Edwina

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-16 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
en citing. Moreover, my Semeiotic Argumentation does not rely on either word; what matters is that every Sign is determined by an Object *other than itself*--i.e., the Object is always *external *to, *independent *of, and *unaffected *by the Sign. Thanks, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA P

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-16 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
ret itself. Sure, but it is not sufficient for the Universe to *determine *itself; an external Object is *necessary *to determine it. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonA

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-16 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
way to avoid this *deductive *conclusion is to deny one of the premisses--i.e., claim either that the Universe is *not *composed of Signs, or that some Signs *do not* have external Objects, both of which would be clear and obvious departures from Peirce's stated views. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Ola

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Triadic and Tetradic relations

2019-05-15 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
s *really * constant. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 2:29 PM Jeffrey Brian Downard < jeffrey.down...@nau.edu> wrote: >

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-15 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
imitations of employing *discrete *Signs to analyze *continuous* semeiosis. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 5:31 PM Jeffrey Brian Downard <

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-15 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
out which interpretation squares best with *all *of the relevant texts, and as always, those reading along can decide for themselves. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanS

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-15 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
ach case, the Sign *conveys knowledge* of the person. And in the second passage, besides affirming the *transcendence *of God as previously quoted, Peirce also succinctly explained why he argued for the *Reality *of God, rather than the *existence *of God. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansa

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-15 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
ly denying that God is immanent in Nature or the three Universes. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 1:40 PM Jeffrey Brian Downard <

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-15 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
ted dots today. Indeed, and one example of "the many fragmented dots today" is the divide between science and religion, which Peirce himself conscientiously sought to bridge. I suspect that he would heartily endorse efforts to develop and apply his ideas further toward that end.

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-15 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
er, immediately after calling the Universe "a vast representamen," Peirce added that it is "a great symbol of God's purpose" (CP 5.119, EP 2:193; 1903)--implying not only that God *has *a purpose, but also that the entire Universe as a Sign is an *expression *of His purpose. Regards,

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-15 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 6:33 PM Edwina Taborsky wrote: > See my responses below: > > On Tue 14/05/19 6:10 PM , Jon Alan Schm

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-14 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
tes that without *necessary *being (*Ens necessarium*), there would be no being *at all*. The only absolutely necessary result of a state of utter nothingness is ... utter nothingness. For the long version, see my online paper <https://tidsskrift.dk/signs/article/view/103187> in *Signs - Internatio

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-14 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
being interpreted as representing something else in some way, then there is an effect that it "*would *produce upon any mind upon which the circumstances should permit it to work out its full effect." Since you acknowledge your disagreement with Peirce about the entire Universe having

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-14 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
od as the creator of all three Universes of Experience in the very first sentence of "A Neglected Argument" (CP 6.452, EP 2:434; 1908), so that should not be controversial at all. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-13 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
he universe? In what respects might it be in error about the laws of logic? How could the Universe *itself*, understood as a Quasi-mind, "be in error about the laws of logic"? Even if this were possible, given that we are *within *the Universe, how could we ever discover and correct such

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-13 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
ature or the three Universes, but rather its/their "Sole Creator"? Do you simply disagree with him on these points? Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmi

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-12 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
ot; (CP 6.452, EP 2:434; 1908). Moreover, since truth is the conformity of a Sign to its Object, the Final Interpretant of the Universe as an Argument--the *ideal* conclusion of the *continuous* "inferential process" of semeiosis--is *knowledge* of God. In other words, God's purpose in *utter

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Triadic and Tetradic relations

2019-05-12 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
, and the transformation to a subsequent state is always by means of *discrete *steps. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 10:22 PM Jeffrey Brian

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Triadic and Tetradic relations

2019-05-11 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
ach I've > been exploring. > > It is good, I think, to be clear about one's purpose in making a post. As > such, I'm making mine more explicit now. > > Yours, > > Jeff > Jeffrey Downard > Associate Professor > Department of Philosophy > Northern Arizona University

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Triadic and Tetradic relations

2019-05-11 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
t bullet fatally wounds B." If we cannot identify a *third *correlate in the relations of surrendering and acquiring, then I do not see how we can legitimately treat them as *triadic *relations. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Luthe

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Triadic and Tetradic relations

2019-05-11 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
lf-defense, or if B is not a human being, or if the shooting is accidental. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 1:26 PM John F Sowa wrote: >

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Triadic and Tetradic relations

2019-05-11 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
*only four* triadic relations, two of giving and two of exchanging? Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 12:42 PM Jeffrey Brian Do

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Triadic and Tetradic relations

2019-05-11 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
for the purposes of description and analysis. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 10:44 PM Jeffrey Brian Downard < jeffrey.down...@na

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Triadic and Tetradic relations

2019-05-10 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
delivery, D, renders T the object of the acquisition of good G; 6th, The payment, P, renders M the object of the receipt of money, R. (CP 7.537; no date) Why introduce so many additional subjects, rather than sticking with the four in the initial proposition? Is an essential element somehow

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-08 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
eivable effects on self-controlled habits of > conduct. > > CSP: The deliberately formed, self-analyzing habit--self-analyzing > because formed by the aid of analysis of the exercises that nourished > it--is the living definition, the veritable and final logical interpretant. >

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-06 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
ncept that words can convey will consist in a description of the habit which that concept is calculated to produce. But how otherwise can a habit be described than by a description of the kind of action to which it gives rise, with the specification of the conditions and of the motive? (CP 5.491, EP 2:4

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Continuity: explaining time, space and other sorts of laws

2019-05-04 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
e individuals, Spots (words) denote general concepts, and Pegs signify continuous predicates by which EGs as Propositions *attribute *concepts (Spots) to individuals (Lines). Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.c

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-04 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
ntity--thereby making them *more determinate*. Those connections are *continuous* predicates, such as "possesses the character of" or "belongs to the class/collection of" for Spots with one Peg, and "stands in the relation of" for Spots with two or more Pegs. Regards, Jo

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Continuity: explaining time, space and other sorts of laws

2019-05-03 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 10:39 PM John F Sowa wrote: > On 5/2/2019 11:15 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt wrote: > > He did not talk about p

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-03 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
ion. They can only ever be the parts of a *hypothetical* "instantaneous state" of a *real* Argument for the purpose of analysis--a *Collection *of Propositions connected *only *by co-being, since leading principles correspond to the transformation rules governing "Thought-motion" from o

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Continuity: explaining time, space and other sorts of laws

2019-05-02 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
the material either shortly before or at the same time as his June 22, 1911 letter to Mr. Kehler. This makes a lot of sense, given his abrupt shift from presenting Cuts as thin oval lines in R 669 (May 25 - June 2) to instead advocating shading in R 670 (June 7-17). Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt -

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Continuity: explaining time, space and other sorts of laws

2019-05-02 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
snapshots of Arguments as captured by EGs on a Sheet of Assertion. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 7:20 PM Stephen Curtiss Rose wrote

[PEIRCE-L] Continuity of Semeiosis Revisited

2019-05-01 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
ed by a prescinded predicate. However, these parts are all "creations of thought," *entia rationis*, Perceptual Judgments rather than Percepts themselves--which is presumably why "A proposition can be separated into a predicate and subjects in more ways than one" (NEM 3:885; 190

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Symbols and Syntax (was Genuinely triadic relations, laws and symbols)

2019-04-22 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
to the *dyadic* relations between them. Regards, Jon S. On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 1:43 PM Jon Alan Schmidt wrote: > Dan, List: > > No, we are *not* talking about the same thing. It was *impossible* for > Peirce to be incorrect or even incomplete in this context; he was referring > to a *l

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Genuinely triadic relations, laws and symbols

2019-04-22 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
em. A principle is a "conception" of such a law ... Generally > speaking, most laws stand and work independently of our conceptions of them. > > > I suppose that we can (and perhaps should) indeed distinguish between a > leading principle and the *real *law of logic tha

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Symbols and Syntax (was Genuinely triadic relations, laws and symbols)

2019-04-22 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
p that he considered > logical, but in fact not. This has nothing to do with the English verb per > se, but with the logical structure of any act of giving that includes three > surface arguments. The point is that Peirce got the *logic* of giving wrong > - for any language. > > D

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Symbols and Syntax (was Genuinely triadic relations, laws and symbols)

2019-04-22 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
what symbol we use to label the Spot for that relation, it will always have *exactly three* Pegs. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 3

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Symbols and Syntax (was Genuinely triadic relations, laws and symbols)

2019-04-21 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
s independent of its *expression *in English, or in any other particular language or Sign System. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 1:31 A

[PEIRCE-L] Symbols and Syntax (was Genuinely triadic relations, laws and symbols)

2019-04-20 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
cal relations*. We can stipulate the proper linear sequence of words for this purpose, often supplemented by additional words; or we can adopt even more iconic Signs, such as Spots with certain arrangements of Pegs attached to other Spots by means of Lines, all scribed on a two-dimensional Sheet. Re

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Genuinely triadic relations, laws and symbols

2019-04-20 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
> person to another'. In this situation, the book could be a doll or a > handkerchief. It's an Object which is being given by Sue to child, and in > my view, the act of giving, as held by Sue, is the Representamen or > mediation. > > Edwina > > On Fri 19/04/19 1:40 PM , Jo

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Genuinely triadic relations, laws and symbols

2019-04-19 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
the mind of that person an equivalent sign, or perhaps a more > developed sign" [2.228 my emphasis] > > Without such powers, then, adaptation and evolution of the universe - > which includes its cognitive powers, would be, I think, impossible. > > Edwina > > On Fri 19/04/19

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Genuinely triadic relations, laws and symbols

2019-04-19 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
o the *Sign*, rather than to either the Object or the Interpretant--which makes sense, since a book is a medium for the communication of a text from one person to another, and a Sign is a medium for the communication of a Form from an Object to an Interpretant. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt -

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Genuinely triadic relations, laws and symbols

2019-04-19 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
ect (input) and turn it into something different (output) that *is *its Interpretant--it *represents *or *stands for* its Object *to* its Interpretant; i.e., it *mediates between* its Object and its Interpretant. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosop

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Genuinely triadic relations, laws and symbols

2019-04-18 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
of connection between the different subjects as expressed in the propositional *form* ... when we have carried analysis so far as to leave only a continuous predicate, we have carried it to its ultimate elements. (SS 70-72; 1908 Dec 14) Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Genuinely triadic relations, laws and symbols

2019-04-18 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
sh between a leading principle and the *real *law of logic that it represents; likewise, between a continuous predicate and the *real *relation that it represents. I will give it some thought. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lu

Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Genuinely triadic relations, laws and symbols

2019-04-18 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
nction. But that is not so. A > thing is only a thing through its function, there is no thing-in-itself. A > thing consists (composition) of matter, form, and function. > Jon, list, > > Ok then, I guess, to "involve" does not mean to "contain" in the sense of > comp

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Genuinely triadic relations, laws and symbols

2019-04-18 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
r 2018 or 2019, so perhaps someone on the List who attended can give us an update, or maybe those participating in tomorrow's Peirce Monument dedication event in Milford can find out what is happening these days. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philo

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Genuinely triadic relations, laws and symbols

2019-04-17 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
high side, even in cases where there are few drawings, since many of the manuscripts are written on smaller sheets. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Wed, A

Re: Re: Re: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Genuinely triadic relations, laws and symbols

2019-04-16 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
* or *communicating*. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 3:42 PM Helmut Raulien wrote: > Edwina, Gary, list: > Here are (from Commens Dict

Re: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Genuinely triadic relations, laws and symbols

2019-04-16 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
tatively, but it must be embodied representatively, that is, in respect to the Form communicated, the Sign produces upon the Interpretant an effect similar to that which the Object itself would under favorable circumstances. (EP 2:544n22; 1906) Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Pr

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Genuinely triadic relations, laws and symbols

2019-04-16 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
ctive, as well, as my comments above reflect. However, recognizing the *continuity *of Signs does not entail that a Sign is *itself *a triadic *relation*. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmid

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce Monument

2019-04-15 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
at 4:55 PM Jon Alan Schmidt wrote: > Jeff, List: > > Please provide specific quotes from "The Logic of Mathematics" (or other > writings of Peirce) to support your claim that "any sign that is general in > character ... have the nature of genuine triadic relati

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce Monument

2019-04-15 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
s and Interpretants are *correlates*, not triadic *relations*, genuine or otherwise. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 10:40 AM Jeffre

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Logical Analysis of Signs (was Phaneroscopy and logic)

2019-04-15 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
of them? Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 10:03 AM Stephen Curtiss Rose wrote: > I think there are no semiotic principles since si

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Logical Analysis of Signs (was Phaneroscopy and logic)

2019-04-14 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
n of a predicate to a subject, is the living intelligence which is the creator of all intelligible reality, as well as of the knowledge of such reality. It is the *entelechy*, or perfection of being. (CP 6.341; 1908) Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce admitted that his terminology of 1906 was bad.

2019-04-14 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
eirce claimed. He did use "blot" in the 1903 sense at least once in 1906, as Jeff just quoted. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Sun, Apr 14,

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce Monument

2019-04-14 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
17. That is why each has a letter at the Spot in the middle, where the name of the triadic relation would go (e.g., "giving," "representing," or "mediating"), and three Lines of Identity that would be attached to the correlates (e.g., giver, gift, and recipient; or Sign,

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce admitted that his terminology of 1906 was bad.

2019-04-13 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
ng with "graph" and "line," often citing Clifford and Sylvester as the inventors of these terms that he adapted for EGs. In other words, his ethics of terminology likely *constrained *him to stick with them, unless he had a very good reason to deviate from them. Regards,

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Logical Analysis of Signs (was Phaneroscopy and logic)

2019-04-13 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
e adjectives. Maybe I will just go back to one of my earlier ideas--color only each Subject Spot (if anything), and consider its single Peg to represent the corresponding continuous predicate. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Logical Analysis of Signs (was Phaneroscopy and logic)

2019-04-12 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
hat Peirce later suggested for the respective Universes of Capacities, Actualities, and Tendencies (R 300:74[39]; 1908). Regards, Jon S. On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 9:51 PM Jon Alan Schmidt wrote: > List: > > While preparing what I posted in the "Phaneroscopy and logic" thread &g

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce admitted that his terminology of 1906 was bad.

2019-04-12 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
0ceccf607.pdf> by Pietarinen). He directly attributed this "discovery" to the innovation of shading the area within a Cut, at that time with a blue tint. I take it that he considered Delta to be necessary in order to represent any *additional* modalities. Regards, Jon Alan Schm

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Phaneroscopy and logic

2019-04-07 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
acing the historical and philosophical background against which Peirce was operating. Unfortunately, in my view Wilson makes some rather fundamental errors when it comes to Peirce's Semeiotic, most notably in his treatment of the Immediate Object. Regards Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Profession

Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Pragmatics and Peirce

2019-04-05 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
.: With projectional reducibility (Jon Awbrey) I have meant this > involvement, the Peircean irreducibility is about compositional > reducibility, which all triadic relations dont have. > > 4.: I agree > > 5.: But how then are objects changed? > > Best,

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Pragmatics and Peirce

2019-04-05 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
no *distinct *Object-Interpretant relation because the Interpretant has the *same *relation to the Object that the Sign has (ibid). - The Object is *not *changed by *either *the Sign or the Interpretant; their triadic relation is *asymmetric* (cf. EP 2:544n22; 1906). Regards, Jon A

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Phaneroscopy and logic

2019-04-05 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
acted upon by its object, from which it is perpetually receiving the accretions of new signs, which bring it fresh energy, and also kindle energy that it already had, but which had lain dormant" (EP 2:545n25; 1906). Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, A

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