Re: [PEIRCE-L] interpretant and thirdness

2023-12-19 Thread Edwina Taborsky
Apologies - in a hurry but the correct determination letters are: DO-IO-R/S- II-DI-FI IO- Immediate Object; So, DO and DI are external to the sign vehicle; and IO and II are internal….. Edwina > On Dec 19, 2023, at 8:58 AM, Edwina Taborsky > wrote: > > I have a completely different

Re: [PEIRCE-L] interpretant and thirdness

2023-12-19 Thread Edwina Taborsky
I have a completely different analysis. A short outline is all I have time for... My view is that the terms of ‘genuine and degenerate refer only to the categorical modes, with Thirdness as genuine. [3-3], degenerate in the first degree [3-2] and degenerate in the second degree [ 3-1], [ See

Re: [PEIRCE-L] interpretant and thirdness

2023-12-18 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Gary R., List: To clarify further, no one is suggesting that all three interpretants are in a "mode" of 3ns, nor that both objects are in a "mode" of 2ns. Using Peirce's late taxonomies for sign classification, that would amount to claiming that all three interpretants are always necessitants and

Re: [PEIRCE-L] interpretant and thirdness

2023-12-16 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Gary R., List: I did not say anything one way or the other about involution, I just explained why I used "determines." However, carefully parsing that quote (CP 5.72, EP 2:162, 1903), Peirce does not say that genuine 3ns involves reactional 3ns, which involves qualitative 3ns. What he says that

Re: [PEIRCE-L] interpretant and thirdness

2023-12-15 Thread Gary Richmond
Jon, Thanks for your comments. However, I still tend to see the three genera of interpretants involutionally. Are you saying that in the quotation in the message to which I first responded that Peirce's writing that "Thirdness, or Representation. . . results in a *trichotomy *giving rise to three

Re: [PEIRCE-L] interpretant and thirdness

2023-12-15 Thread Edwina Taborsky
Jerry - I wonder if Peirce’s terms on the Interpretants are just about result of his frequently exploring and using different terms, though I acknowledge he does this. There is an interesting paper by Brendan Lalor, Semiotics 114–1/2, 31-40, 1997 on The Classification of Peirce’s

Re: [PEIRCE-L] interpretant and thirdness

2023-12-15 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Gary R., List: GR: I note that you use the term 'determine' to express these relations while in the Peirce quotation above Peirce writes "involving." I use "determines" because that is what Peirce himself uses for the three interpretants in EP 2:481 (1908)--"Hence it follows from the Definition

Re: [PEIRCE-L] interpretant and thirdness

2023-12-15 Thread Gary Richmond
Jon, Thank you for presenting the alignment of the Peirce's three different terminological expressions of the three interpretants so succinctly, which is also to say that I agree with you -- as opposed to that anonymous reviewer -- that the "[explicit/ effective/ destinate interpretants] ought be

Re: [PEIRCE-L] interpretant and thirdness

2023-12-15 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
List: For the record (again), although the three interpretants are not a trichotomy for sign classification, they do constitute a trichotomy in the specific sense defined by Peirce as follows. CSP: Taking any class in whose essential idea the predominant element is Thirdness, or Representation,

Re: [PEIRCE-L] interpretant and thirdness

2023-12-14 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
List: If I may add a realistic note to the discussion on changing terminology. My opinion come from three significant experiences with scientific notations. Before I offer my opinions I would note historically that CSP writings are flows of changing terminologies with rare examples of concerns

Re: [PEIRCE-L] interpretant and thirdness

2023-12-13 Thread Edwina Taborsky
Jon, list With regard to bringing Peirce’s work to a broader audience - I can think of a number of issues. 1] We should not assume that our audience are first year undergraduates; as you point out - the people who are exploring Peirce may very well be much more advanced scholars in other

Re: [PEIRCE-L] interpretant and thirdness

2023-12-13 Thread robert marty
Jon, List, I appreciate your unusually exhaustive work on this delicate issue, and almost agree with its conclusion. My criticism concerns the invisible but very real limitations you have imposed on it, for reasons of your own; they detract from its scope, and that's a pity. I'll explain myself in

Re: [PEIRCE-L] interpretant and thirdness

2023-12-12 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
List: JFS: Another term that raises confusion is "final interpretant". I believe that Peirce used that term for discussing important issues. But the details of multiple levels of interpretants are unclear. I noticed that in the last decade of his life, when Lady Welby was his primary

Re: [PEIRCE-L] interpretant and thirdness

2023-12-12 Thread robert marty
Dear John, List On your proposal to change the terminology for Categories : First, I agree with you about the drawbacks of the terminology currently in use. However, it is so old and the alternative proposals so numerous that it would be opening a Pandora's box. For example, I note the

Re: [PEIRCE-L] interpretant and thirdness

2023-12-11 Thread Edwina Taborsky
John - thanks for your post. My concern, however, is that the Peircean community, should in my view, accept that research in other disciplines may be examining the same cognitive and physical realities but, might be using different terms than Peirce used. That is- their terms, as used by

Re: [PEIRCE-L] interpretant and thirdness

2023-12-11 Thread John F Sowa
Dear Robert, Edwina, and all, As we have been discussing, Peirce's work is at the forefront of ongoing research and publications in the 21st century. But many people complain that his jargon is an obstacle. Yet those people don't realize that the jargon they're reading and writing today is

Re: [PEIRCE-L] interpretant and thirdness

2023-12-09 Thread Edwina Taborsky
John - yes, I agree with your comments. With regard to your point 4 - that’s an excellent comment. Primarity, Secundarity, and Tertiarity These are much better terms for the categorical modes than Firstness, Secondness and Thirdness. They are better descriptions of their modal nature - a

Re: [PEIRCE-L] interpretant and thirdness

2023-12-09 Thread John F Sowa
Dear Robert, Edwina, and all readers of Peirce-List, I share the concerns of Robert, Edwina, and a large number of subscribers who rarely comment on this list. We have discussed these and related issues before. In the early 2000s, this list was a vital source of discussion by some of the

Re: [PEIRCE-L] interpretant and thirdness

2023-12-09 Thread Edwina Taborsky
at the Peirce Sesquicentennial (1989) and the >> Centennial (2011). And I believe that the most important issues that we >> should be discussing today are issues that show how Peirce's writing are >> essential reading for cognitive scientists today. >> >> What are your thoug

Re: [PEIRCE-L] interpretant and thirdness

2023-12-09 Thread robert marty
e be doing > today to prepare for the Bicentennial in 2039. > > John > > > ---------- > *From*: "robert marty" > *Sent*: 12/8/23 4:22 PM > *To*: Helmut Raulien > *Cc*: Peirce-L > *Subject*: Re: [PEIRCE-L] interpretant and thirdness > &

Re: [PEIRCE-L] interpretant and thirdness

2023-12-08 Thread John F Sowa
To: Helmut Raulien Cc: Peirce-L Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] interpretant and thirdness Helmut, List I've studied your post carefully... Until Hmmm, everything seems to be okay. Then it becomes problematic. As it happens, I was recently asked by a Canadian colleague about a text on hypoicones, writte

Re: [PEIRCE-L] interpretant and thirdness

2023-12-08 Thread robert marty
dge. > Sorry that i was writing while thinking, but I guess I have it clear now: > "Firstness, secondness, thirdness" apply to reality, while "a first, a > second, a third" may as well merely apply to my knowledge, for example. But > on the other hand: My knowledge i

Aw: [PEIRCE-L] interpretant and thirdness

2023-12-07 Thread Helmut Raulien
ked.   Best, Helmut   Gesendet: Donnerstag, 07. Dezember 2023 um 11:40 Uhr Von: "robert marty" An: "Helmut Raulien" , "Peirce-L" Betreff: Re: [PEIRCE-L] interpretant and thirdness Helmut, List, I'd like to draw your attention to the damage, not to say ravages,

Re: [PEIRCE-L] interpretant and thirdness

2023-12-07 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Mary, List: To clarify, Peirce's mature mathematical conception of a continuum is "top-down" in the sense that the whole is real and the parts are *entia rationis*, as opposed to a "bottom-up" conception in which the parts are real and the whole is an *ens rationis*. Moreover, the whole is

Re: [PEIRCE-L] interpretant and thirdness

2023-12-07 Thread robert marty
Helmut, List, I'd like to draw your attention to the damage, not to say ravages, that can sometimes result from the all-too-frequent confusion between the terms "a First" and "a firtsnesse" (that is a Priman element of a Phaneron), "a Second" and "a Secondnesse" (that is a Secundan element of a

Aw: [PEIRCE-L] interpretant and thirdness

2023-12-06 Thread Helmut Raulien
he individuals and systems (or let´s say superordinate signs) that intend to dominate the individuals. Tribalism does never serve the individuals, but only the systems.   Best, Helmut     Gesendet: Mittwoch, 06. Dezember 2023 um 15:11 Uhr Von: "Jon Alan Schmidt" An: "Peirce-L"

Re: [PEIRCE-L] interpretant and thirdness

2023-12-06 Thread robert marty
Helmut, List, The question is easily answered by looking at the triadic or hexadic classes of signs. In the first case, only the Argument is a sign whose interpreter is a Thirdness. In the second case, in the absence of denominations, it suffices to list the classes of signs that incorporate

Re: [PEIRCE-L] interpretant and thirdness

2023-12-06 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Helmut, List: Assignments of Peirce's three universal categories to different phenomena are not absolute, they are contextual in accordance with the relevant relations among them. For example, the sign, its object, and its interpretant only correspond respectively to 1ns, 2ns, and 3ns within

[PEIRCE-L] interpretant and thirdness

2023-12-02 Thread Helmut Raulien
Dear All,   The interpretant, in the following sign triad of the semiosis, is the new sign. I have got the feeling, that in this statement there is a lack of explanation. How exactly does this happen? If a thirdness (interpretant) just so would turn into a firstness (sign), then a lot of