Helmut, list,
HELMUT: ”The symbols of bees, eg. pheromones (are they
symbols?), I would say, are instinctive”
I have a serious problem with the notion of instinct... either a thought, in
whatever manifestation, conforms to the three Peircean categories, or it does
not. If we
Helmut, Stan, lists,
"A subsumes B" can be interpreted in more than one ways:
"A contains B."
"A depends on B."
"A is supervenient on B."
"B is prerequisite for A."
"A emerges from B."
The choice between these possible interpretations under a given context of
discourse can be made only on
Stephen, lists,
Does a bee know how to be a bee? I mean, when an organism is doing something, does that mean that it knows why it is doing that? Does this question only show, that there may be different concepts of the word "know" or "knowledge"? For me, to know has to do with intention and
