At 08:50 AM 10/5/2014, Gary Fuhrman wrote:
Howard, I think this is a good explanation of how the word symbol
is used in the language of physics. As such, it explains why the
language of physics is of limited use in semiotics.
HP: Of course it is of limited use. It only explains why the most
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At 01:15 PM 10/5/2014, Gary Fuhrman wrote:
Nobody (least of all Peirce!) is naming bits symbols or legisigns.
Bits (as the name implies
Gary F,
I was responding to your statement: Bits (as the name implies!) can
only be small pieces of symbols in the semiotic sense of the word
symbol; they are not symbols.
Of course, a bit is not a symbol or a piece of symbol. It is a
measure of information. I was trying to indicate that
