[PEIRCE-L] Nature and Division of Signs (was Three Interpretants)

2018-03-30 Thread Edwina Taborsky
semiosis and corresponding terminology are very different before you stop criticizing it solely on that basis? Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USAProfessional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Laymanwww.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt [1] - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt [2] On Fri, Ma

[PEIRCE-L] Nature and Division of Signs (was Three Interpretants)

2018-03-30 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Gary R, list: Thanks for a very wise post. I very much agree with its assertion that semiosis is NOT restricted to mediative process guided by general signs/representamens - but that mediation includes

[PEIRCE-L] the semiosic process

2018-03-30 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }list I've just received a notice about a new book from a long time friend and colleague, Ron Cottam, which speaks, I suggest, to some of the questions explored on this list. Bridging the Gap between Life and

[PEIRCE-L] Three Interpretants and Fuzzy Logic

2018-03-27 Thread Edwina Taborsky
ons for fuzziness: Graduality, subjectivity...? Best, Helmut 25. März 2018 um 23:46 Uhr "John F Sowa" wrote: On 3/25/2018 5:08 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: > I think that it's very difficult to correlate theory to model to > the real world - and I think that Peirce specifica

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Genuine triadic relations

2018-03-26 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }John - Yes, I see your point. And especially point 6!!! Edwina On Mon 26/03/18 9:21 PM , John F Sowa s...@bestweb.net sent: On 3/26/2018 8:17 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: > My comment is that I th

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Genuine triadic relations

2018-03-26 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }John, list Thanks for the outline; I've only had time to check out your slides. My comment is that I think that a communication line [Subject-Verb-Object] or even A gives Y to B, is very different from

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Three Interpretants and Fuzzy Logic

2018-03-25 Thread Edwina Taborsky
s...@bestweb.net sent: On 3/25/2018 3:10 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: > I would suggest that Peirce's 'haziness' and 'fuzzy logic' have > a great deal in common. I agree, but there is one important difference. See the article on "What is the source of fuzziness?" : http:/

[PEIRCE-L] Three Interpretants and Fuzzy Logic

2018-03-25 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }John Sowa, list: With regard to the 'hazy notion' outlined by Peirce - I'm reminded of the fuzzy logic theory [see Lotfi Zadeh- who introduced it in, I think, 1965], which refers to 'many-valued logics, and

[PEIRCE-L] Three Interpretants

2018-03-24 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }John Sowa, list: Thanks for your post - excellent. You wrote: "As a suggestion, I would say that both Jon and Edwina are pursuing directions that were inspired by, but different from Peirce's. They could

[PEIRCE-L] Three Interpretants

2018-03-24 Thread Edwina Taborsky
Heh - Jerry, my aims are not personal in the sense of confined to myself but are 'understanding the writings of Peirce' - pragmatically. In other words - their pragmatic application. In my case, I'm interested in the application of Peircean analysis in biosemiotics. That

[PEIRCE-L] Three Interpretants

2018-03-24 Thread Edwina Taborsky
Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USAProfessional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Laymanwww.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt [1] - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt [2] On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 8:16 AM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: Stephen, Gary R, list Stephen, thanks for your post. Yes, bogus is a

[PEIRCE-L] Three Interpretants

2018-03-24 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }The way I explain it, to myself, is: Pure or Genuine Secondness [2-2] is an interaction [Relation] of direct physical bruteness. A baseball bat hitting the ball. Period. Strictly an external observation.

[PEIRCE-L] Three Interpretants

2018-03-24 Thread Edwina Taborsky
e the paper above, not to mention much that you've done on this list--I consider your critique bogus. Best, Gary Gary RichmondPhilosophy and Critical Thinking Communication StudiesLaGuardia College of the City University of New York718 482-5690 [4] On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 8:16 PM, Edwina Taborsky

[PEIRCE-L] Three Interpretants

2018-03-23 Thread Edwina Taborsky
List I think that the various comments and concerns by others on the list, that attempts to set up an analytic and abstract model of the semiosic process, with each part defined within an exact and singular term and providing an exact and singular action - actually deny the real nature

[PEIRCE-L] Three Interpretants

2018-03-22 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }JAS, list: That's an interesting diagramme but as I'm sure you would expect, I have problems with it as a diagramme of Peircean semiosis. The comments below will be unintelligible unless one is looking at the

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Three Interpretants

2018-03-22 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Jon, Kirsti, list: Yes - that's a key concept: Triadic RELATIONS - which, as Relations, are interactive, dynamic, mediative and enabling transformations and adaptations and yet, always, acknowledging the

[PEIRCE-L] Three Interpretants

2018-03-22 Thread Edwina Taborsky
quiry for which I am seeking the assistance of the List community" and "I am still very much open to being persuaded" did you not understand? Cheers, Jon S. On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 4:53 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: Jon, list: 1: Of course I know that the Quas

: [PEIRCE-L] Three Interpretants

2018-03-21 Thread Edwina Taborsky
n to being persuaded" did you not understand? Cheers, Jon S. On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 4:53 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: Jon, list: 1: Of course I know that the Quasi-Mind need not be a person but can be a group of crystals and etc.! I am trying to provide an EXAMPLE of suc

: [PEIRCE-L] Three Interpretants

2018-03-21 Thread Edwina Taborsky
omposition tree is never ending: The DO consists of two parts, the DI too, and the FI of three. And so on. Best, Helmut 21. März 2018 um 21:00 Uhr "Edwina Taborsky" wrote: Jon, list: And I continue puzzling over your statement below: JAS: &quo

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Three Interpretants

2018-03-21 Thread Edwina Taborsky
ce of the three Interpretants, my recent contemplation of them has led me to suspect that it might not be the correct logical sequence when ordering the corresponding trichotomies for Sign classification. Thanks, Jon S. On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 11:51 AM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: Jon, list - I'll

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Three Interpretants

2018-03-21 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Jon, list: And I continue puzzling over your statement below: JAS: "Suppose that Quasi-mind A utters Sign Y, which determines Quasi-mind B to a further Sign Z as its Effectual or Dynamic Interpretant.

[PEIRCE-L] Three Interpretants

2018-03-21 Thread Edwina Taborsky
s intended, its purpose. Her Significance is the real upshot. [EP2:498] Gary f. On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 7:46 AM, Edwina Taborskywrote: Jon AS, list; I have a problem with the set up as you outline it - which remains abstract rather than a concrete example.

[PEIRCE-L] Three Interpretants

2018-03-21 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; } Jon AS, list; I have a problem with the set up as you outline it - which remains abstract rather than a concrete example. First - my problem is that I think the multiple terms for the three

[PEIRCE-L] Scientific inquiry does not involve matters

2018-03-16 Thread Edwina Taborsky
ation, as I'm willing to suffer through reading his arrogant comments in order to learn what I can. Matt On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 8:41 AM Edwina Taborsky wrote: Matt, list: You wrote: "He does this many other places too. It's hard to be as insufferably arrogant as Pei

: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Perfect Sign Revisited

2018-03-16 Thread Edwina Taborsky
. https://tidsskrift.dk/signs/article/view/103187/152244 [1] Best, Gary Gary RichmondPhilosophy and Critical ThinkingCommunication StudiesLaGuardia College of the City University of New York718 482-5690 [2] On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 9:18 AM, Edwina Taborsky wrote:

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Perfect Sign Revisited

2018-03-16 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Jon, list: 1] Just one suggestion. When you are providing a quote from Peirce, please do not add your comments within that quoted text. In the quote below from CP 5,119, the words in brackets [3ns, 2ns, 1ns] are

[PEIRCE-L] Scientific inquiry does not involve matters

2018-03-16 Thread Edwina Taborsky
bound to eventually pass into irrelevance." I'm uncertain of your meaning. Are you defining Peirce as 'insufferably arrogant' and declaring that his philosophy was merely relative to the time - and is certain [bound] to become irrelevant? Edwina Taborsky On Thu 15/03/18 9:39

[PEIRCE-L] Scientific inquiry does not involve matters

2018-03-13 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Gene, list: See my comments below: Overall - I think that your personal antipathy towards industrialism and capitalism [an antipathy that I do not share] means that you reject any thinker - even if they are

[PEIRCE-L] Scientific inquiry does not involve matters

2018-03-12 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Gene, list: With regard to your comments, see below: On Mon 12/03/18 12:59 PM , Eugene Halton eugene.w.halto...@nd.edu sent: Thanks, Gary R and Kirsti, for your comments, I’m just catching up. 1]

[PEIRCE-L] Perfect Sign Revisited

2018-03-10 Thread Edwina Taborsky
ardia College of the City University of New York718 482-5690 [1] On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 3:52 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: List - I would agree with the concerns expressed about the notion of 'perfection'. I suggest that the very idea of 'perfection', 'the perfect sign', etc

[PEIRCE-L] The Science That Draws Illegitimate Conclusions (was Scientific inquiry does not involve matters

2018-03-05 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; } Jon, list I fully agree. Political 'science' is not a science. It's a set of theories and its problem, I think, is that these theories can become detached from reality and operate simply as ideology. But an

[PEIRCE-L] Scientific inquiry does not involve matters

2018-03-04 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Gene, list: I think that your switch of what I consider the basic capacity of mankind to explore the environment, examine its nature, and also, to develop technologies to more productively interact with the world

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Quasi-minds Revisited

2018-03-03 Thread Edwina Taborsky
alism replaces concepts like "friendship" with it. Best, Helmut 02. März 2018 um 22:28 Uhr "Edwina Taborsky" Helmut - with regard to the word 'Interpreter' - that's a direct quote from Peirce. And after all, in his reference to a Quasi-mind, Peirce refers to

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Quasi-minds Revisited

2018-03-02 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }JAS, Gary R, List - and here is, as I view it, a problem. 1] Notice that JAS seems to be confining the definition [and function?] of a 'Sign' to a 'symbol', in other words, to Thirdness. But is this accurate? Or

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Repeal the Second Amendment❢

2018-02-23 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; } Jon- you haven't identified what this 'war' consists of. For example - what does your reference to a war against science actually mean? And you refer to 'the rain of abuse against university-educated

[PEIRCE-L] Quasi-mind

2018-02-21 Thread Edwina Taborsky
Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USAProfessional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Laymanwww.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt [1] - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt [2] On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 5:55 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: Gary R - thanks for a wonderful post as moderator. I don't know how to describ

[PEIRCE-L] Quasi-mind

2018-02-21 Thread Edwina Taborsky
hearing a loud sound, the vase that someone sees upon opening his eyes, or the child who screams upon touching a hot burner. The bird, the person who sees the vase, and the child and her mother are all presumably Quasi-minds. I do not expect you to say anything further about any of this. Regards,

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Quasi-mind

2018-02-21 Thread Edwina Taborsky
of inquiry. We propose a definition (Retroduction), explicate its implications (Deduction), test it against experience (Induction), and revise/repeat as needed. Regards, Jon S. On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 9:01 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: Jon - 1]You are the one who is 'assertin

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Quasi-mind

2018-02-20 Thread Edwina Taborsky
m actually very interested in exploring the nature and function of perfect Signs and Quasi-minds within concrete semiosis, but for me, coming up with clear definitions of those terms is the first step. Thanks, Jon S. On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 5:34 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: Jon, list

[PEIRCE-L] Quasi-mind

2018-02-20 Thread Edwina Taborsky
an www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt [1] - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt [2] On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 2:27 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: list - I think the terms need to be defined, since, apparently, each of us has different definitions of 'sign'; perfect sign' and 'quasi-mind'.

[PEIRCE-L] Quasi-mind

2018-02-20 Thread Edwina Taborsky
list - I think the terms need to be defined, since, apparently, each of us has different definitions of 'sign'; perfect sign' and 'quasi-mind'. Again, my understanding of the Sign is not confined to its function as the Representamen, but to the semiosic process of

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Quasi-mind

2018-02-19 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; } Jon - just a few of my concerns about your definitions - but - I'm not going to get into another endless debate. I'm sure you'll respond - but - we'll have to leave it with that. You have informed us, in this

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Quasi-mind

2018-02-19 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }list - I have hesitated to get into this thread because I don't want to get into yet another interminable debate over terms - but - I do have a few concerns about the definition of a quasi-mind and of a perfect sign.

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Systems and Semiosis

2018-02-18 Thread Edwina Taborsky
t that one reason why semiotics exists -- so we can be appropriately vague, even about terms that border on the ontological? On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 12:07 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: Stephen, list: 'Mind' is not the same as consciousness. Therefore, to suggest, as Peirce does,

Re: [PEIRCE-L] The concept of system is just a human abstraction

2018-02-18 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; } John - exactly, I fully agree - and nicely said. AND in addition, all these processes are semiosic and involve Mind. Edwina On Sun 18/02/18 10:24 AM , John F Sowa s...@bestweb.net sent: On 2/18/2018 7:40 AM,

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Quasi-mind

2018-02-16 Thread Edwina Taborsky
is certainly what I will mean by "Quasi-mind" as this discussion moves forward. If you still disagree, once again please do not feel obligated to respond. Regards, Jon S. On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 4:46 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: Jon, list I'm not going to get int

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Quasi-mind

2018-02-16 Thread Edwina Taborsky
int in How Language Began. In my forthcoming Aeon article on Homo erectus, I note that there are several other species that have learned symbols, but on species of the genus Homo (erectus, Neanderthal, sapiens) have had symbols. Dan On Feb 16, 2018, at 4:14 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote:

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Quasi-mind

2018-02-16 Thread Edwina Taborsky
.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt [1] - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt [2] On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 3:26 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: Gary R, List: Again, my reading of these sections is that the Quasi-Mind appears in the semiosic action of interaction. If one considers that Mind is an

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Quasi-mind

2018-02-16 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Gary R, List: Again, my reading of these sections is that the Quasi-Mind appears in the semiosic action of interaction. If one considers that Mind is an essential and universal component of all

[PEIRCE-L] Knowledge Bases in Inquiry, Learning, Reasoning

2018-02-16 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Gary R, list I'd also like some clarification and discussion of the 'quasi-mind'. I have a very different interpretation than that of JAS, who seems, to me at least, to assign the term of a 'quasi-mind' to a

[PEIRCE-L] Knowledge Bases in Inquiry, Learning, Reasoning

2018-02-14 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; } Jon, list This is simply too convoluted for me. I consider that the child's cry is a semiosic action, a Rhematic Indexical Sinsign, an unconscious physical reaction to an external stimuli. This is NOT dyadic,

[PEIRCE-L] Knowledge Bases in Inquiry, Learning, Reasoning

2018-02-13 Thread Edwina Taborsky
ike the concept of Quasi-mind that I am exploring. Thanks again, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Laymanwww.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt [1] - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt [2] On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 11:12 AM, Edwina Taborsky wr

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Knowledge Bases in Inquiry, Learning, Reasoning

2018-02-13 Thread Edwina Taborsky
n Laymanwww.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt [1] - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt [2] On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 9:54 AM, Edwina Taborskywrote: Jon, list - 1. With regard to the example - I consider the child's scream to be a DI, which then transforms into a DO for the mother.

: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Knowledge Bases in Inquiry, Learning, Reasoning

2018-02-13 Thread Edwina Taborsky
speakables. Did Peirce believe that entropy trumped what I would call syntropy? If so did he then believe that logic was entropic? amazon.com/author/stephenrose [1] On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 8:34 AM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: Gary R, Jon, list: 1. I don't think that there is an 'end t

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Knowledge Bases in Inquiry, Learning, Reasoning

2018-02-13 Thread Edwina Taborsky
gnable date in the future there will be some slight aberrancy from law'. Edwina On Tue 13/02/18 8:34 AM , Edwina Taborsky tabor...@primus.ca sent: BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Gary R, Jon, list: 1. I don't think that there is an 'end to sem

[PEIRCE-L] Knowledge Bases in Inquiry, Learning, Reasoning

2018-02-13 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Gary R, Jon, list: 1. I don't think that there is an 'end to semiosis', because Firstness, which is akin to entropy, is as basic to semiosis as Thirdness/habits. Even a rock will dissipate. Also, I don't think

: [PEIRCE-L] Aristotle and Peirce

2018-02-12 Thread Edwina Taborsky
Helmut, list My view of Peirce's Form and Matter is quite different from that of JAS. I refer you to Vol 6, 354-364, which has an extensive outline of different types of form. Indeed, he associates Form with 'forma corpus' and 'morphe' {Note: I am transliterating from the

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Aristotle and Peirce

2018-02-12 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Stephen - Peirce was 'Aristotelian' in issues about Matter and Form; and the primacy of sensate data in our experience - and the nature of Reality vs the individual Existence. But - Aristotle's evolution theory was - as

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Note from List Moderator: Frequency of posting

2018-02-12 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }List - 200 in one week? That's about 20 per day! I admit I wasn't aware of that many. What seems to happen is that list members are involved in only a few but not all discussions. With most topics, there can be a

: [PEIRCE-L] signs and things

2018-02-12 Thread Edwina Taborsky
" (CP 1.601; 1902). I wonder if this is precisely the difference between a "thing" and a "Quasi-mind"; the latter must still have at least some capability for Habit-change, as all human minds obviously do. Thanks, Jon S. On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 6:52 PM, Edwina Taborsky

[PEIRCE-L] signs and things

2018-02-11 Thread Edwina Taborsky
be a genuine Sign, by "Signs" do you mean "ordinary" Sinsigns or Replicas of genuine Signs? Thanks, Jon S. On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 2:44 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: Jon AS - I agree with your outline of the 'sign is not a real thing'. With regard to the nece

Re: Re: RE: [PEIRCE-L] signs and things

2018-02-11 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Jon AS - I agree with your outline of the 'sign is not a real thing'. With regard to the necessity of the Dynamic Object, I'd suggest that this Dynamic Object, as a thing also requires that it be related, so to

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Knowledge Bases in Inquiry, Learning, Reasoning

2018-02-10 Thread Edwina Taborsky
ggest reading (or rereading) NEM 4:292-300, not just EP 2:303-304, to see how he clearly aligned Form with 1ns, Matter with 2ns, and Entelechy with 3ns. Regards, Jon S. On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 1:40 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: Jon - - my view is that the IO and II are internal to the FO

Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Knowledge Bases in Inquiry, Learning, Reasoning

2018-02-10 Thread Edwina Taborsky
e one in NEM is especially detailed and illuminating on this point. Thanks, Jon S. On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 12:31 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: Jon, list I don't see the Representamen as the individual site for storage. That would make it 'existential' in itself. I see it as a site for a mediat

Re: Aw: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Knowledge Bases in Inquiry, Learning, Reasoning

2018-02-10 Thread Edwina Taborsky
Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt [1] - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt [2]On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 8:57 AM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: Jon, list - I like your outline of a syllogistic format - I consider that the semiosic triad of DO-[IO-R-II]..and

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Knowledge Bases in Inquiry, Learning, Reasoning

2018-02-10 Thread Edwina Taborsky
quot; (EP 2:324; 1904). Regards, Jon S. On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 11:11 AM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: Jon - OK - I have no problem with your outline. I'd also say that a Sign [which I understand as the full set of DO-[IO-R-II]...serves not only as the site for storage but also fo

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Knowledge Bases in Inquiry, Learning, Reasoning

2018-02-10 Thread Edwina Taborsky
gineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Laymanwww.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt [1] - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt [2] On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 8:57 AM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: Jon, list - I like your outline of a syllogistic format - I consider that the semiosic triad of DO-

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Knowledge Bases in Inquiry, Learning, Reasoning

2018-02-10 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Jon, list - I like your outline of a syllogistic format - I consider that the semiosic triad of DO-[IO-R-II]..and possibly DI functions in a syllogistic format. But with regard to the Mind/Quasi-Mind discussion,

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Representamen Discussion

2018-02-09 Thread Edwina Taborsky
t it', it's not even necessary. Best,Jerry R On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 3:50 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: Jerry- yes, Peirce was quite specific that one cannot make individuals judges of truth...and that we function within a 'community'...and I certainly agree with that. I would prefer t

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Representamen Discussion

2018-02-09 Thread Edwina Taborsky
of embodied ideas is what it will consist in.- Best, Jerry R On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 3:42 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: Jon - I still don't see why you call this semiosic action the 'quasi-mind' rather than the 'mind'. What's the difference between the two

Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Representamen Discussion

2018-02-09 Thread Edwina Taborsky
rely--" Different people have such wonderfully different ways of thinking" (CP 6.462, EP 2:437; 1908). Regards, Jon S. On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 1:40 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: Jon, list - You haven't told us where and when the Quasi-Mind enters the semiosic interaction. And why jus

Re: Aw: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Representamen Discussion

2018-02-09 Thread Edwina Taborsky
y and part of the sign/representamen. Best, Helmut 09. Februar 2018 um 19:36 Uhr "Edwina Taborsky" wrote: Gary R - yes, thanks for your correction. The basic semiosic set, as I see it, is: DO-[IO-R-II] - and often DI I think that what is at issue for ma

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Representamen Discussion

2018-02-09 Thread Edwina Taborsky
f the items that I listed are indeed called Representamens in Peirce's own usage of that term. Regards, Jon S. Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USAProfessional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Laymanwww.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt [1] - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt [2] On Fri, Feb 9, 20

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Representamen Discussion

2018-02-09 Thread Edwina Taborsky
epresentamens. In fact, according to Peirce, each of these is the same Representamen whenever it is embodied in a Replica, although I would say that it is part of a different Sign when the Immediate Object or Immediate Interpretant is different. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, U

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Representamen Discussion

2018-02-09 Thread Edwina Taborsky
of these is the same Representamen whenever it is embodied in a Replica, although I would say that it is part of a different Sign when the Immediate Object or Immediate Interpretant is different. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USAProfessional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Luth

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Sign Relations

2018-02-09 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Jon Awbrey, list: Thanks for your post - and specifically, for your comment: "the greater significance of the transformation he suggests at these points is not the shift from one type of interpreter

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Representamen Discussion

2018-02-08 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }As usual - I have a different outline. I think there are multiple Signs involved. I understand the Sign as: DO-[IO-R-DI]...and often DI. That's the basic format. 1. Child touches hot stove: Rhematic Iconic

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Representamen Discussion

2018-02-07 Thread Edwina Taborsky
Jeff - I think the epistemic cut is simple. It separates one morphological unit [or Mind-Matter] and another. After all, how could Secondness operate without such a differential separation between A and B? Secondness, after all, is basic to life - both organic and inorganic. The notion of

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Representamen Discussion

2018-02-07 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; } Jon, list - there's still quite a bit of disagreement. You are saying that I say that "all Signs [IO-R-II] are internal to an individual agent. But remember - I don't consider that this internal triad can exist

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Representamen Discussion

2018-02-07 Thread Edwina Taborsky
do not feel obligated to post a rebuttal. Again, I believe that it is beneficial for future conversations that we have now zeroed in on where the divergence in our views is primarily rooted. I will keep your alternative interpretation in mind (no pun intended) as I continue reading and thinking abo

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Representamen Discussion

2018-02-07 Thread Edwina Taborsky
, the (external) Dynamic Interpretant of the utterer's (internal) Representamen becomes the (external) Dynamic Object of the receiver's (internal) Representamen. Is that right? Thanks, Jon S. On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 7:29 AM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: Jon - there isn't any 'gap'. There isn't any free

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Representamen Discussion

2018-02-07 Thread Edwina Taborsky
eflections. In your semiotic terminology, what bridges the external gap between the internal Representamen of the utterer and the internal Representamen of the receiver? Regards, Jon S. On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 8:13 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: Jon - I don't quite understand the poi

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Representamen Discussion

2018-02-06 Thread Edwina Taborsky
by the Dynamic Object? For example, is this typed message a Dynamic Object, just like (in your analysis) the typed word "vase"? Thanks, Jon S. On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 7:03 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: Jon - the triad is: O-R-I. Therefore, all semiosic interaction betw

Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Representamen Discussion

2018-02-06 Thread Edwina Taborsky
on exactly where we disagree. :-) Thanks, Jon S. On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 2:22 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: Jon - yes, that's correct. To me, the Representamen is internal to an agent. It has the function of mediating between the external set of sensate data of the Dynamic Object...which

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Representamen Discussion

2018-02-06 Thread Edwina Taborsky
the range of possible effects that this thought-Sign may have on you. *The Dynamic Interpretant (DI) is any actual effect that this thought-Sign does have on you. Regards, Jon S. On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 2:18 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: Jon - no, we don't agree on your first or second anal

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Representamen Discussion

2018-02-06 Thread Edwina Taborsky
Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Laymanwww.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt [1] - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt [2] On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 12:34 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: Dan - I agree; what are the consequences of our definitions? My view, that the representamen is an act of mediation, of transforma

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Representamen Discussion

2018-02-06 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Jon - no, we don't agree on your first or second analysis. I totally and completely disagree with your view of the Repesentamen and indeed, of the semiosic process. I think we should stop. Wait and see if others

Re: Re: Re: Aw: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Representamen Discussion

2018-02-06 Thread Edwina Taborsky
magined vases, or (in your experience) my previous discussion with Gary R.--must come from collateral observation, or the "knowledge base of the agent," and pertains only to the Object. As collateral, it is not "located" within the Representamen itself. Regards, Jon S. On Tue, Feb 6, 201

Re: Re: Aw: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Representamen Discussion

2018-02-06 Thread Edwina Taborsky
involved in the process or action of semiosis. Per your own quote (CP 2.311), the Representamen is something that mediates, not the act of mediation. Regards, Jon S. On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 1:07 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: Helmut - no, Peirce's term was not 'medium' which simply means a carr

Re: Aw: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Representamen Discussion

2018-02-06 Thread Edwina Taborsky
the interpretant. Peirce writes this many times, and it does not mean that these two roles of the sign (patient and agent, being determined and determining) are two dyadic relations fully representing the triadic relation by being products of reduction out of it. Best, Helmut06. Fe

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Representamen Discussion

2018-02-06 Thread Edwina Taborsky
Dan - I agree; what are the consequences of our definitions? My view, that the representamen is an act of mediation, of transformation .."it creates in the mind of that person an equivalent sign, or perhaps a more developed sign'. 2.228.can be exemplified in a NON-human example

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Representamen Discussion

2018-02-06 Thread Edwina Taborsky
t in a genuine (irreducible) triadic relation. Regards, Jon S. On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 10:43 AM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: Jon, list No- my instant reaction was that it was: A Dynamic Object. I did not go through a semiosic triadic process...which would be to move

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Representamen Discussion

2018-02-06 Thread Edwina Taborsky
that means); rather, the Representamen is anything that stands for something else (its Object) to something else (its Interpretant) within a triadic Sign-relation. Regards, Jon S. On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 9:27 AM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: Jon, list The four letters that you provided were jus

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Representamen Discussion

2018-02-06 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Jon, list The four letters that you provided were just that: four letters. There was no semiosic process/action. Jon Awbrey correctly pointed this out to you. The semiosic process is triadic - and the

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Representamen

2018-02-06 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }List: 1. No, it is not a Representamen. The R is the median part of the semiosic triad. The R is internal to the triad; not external. It is a process, an action, not a 'thing'. 2. The 'vase' - is a

Re: Re: Aw: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Collateral Experience and Habits of Interpretation (was Immediate Objects and Phenomena)

2018-02-05 Thread Edwina Taborsky
, Lutheran Laymanwww.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt [1] - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt [2] On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 2:07 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: Helmut - No, I consider that the bird's perception of the loud sound is NOT the representamen. The bird has several means of 'perception'. IO: the Immedi

Re: Aw: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Collateral Experience and Habits of Interpretation (was Immediate Objects and Phenomena)

2018-02-05 Thread Edwina Taborsky
1ns, matter (subjects/objects) with 2ns, and entelechy (signs/thought) with 3ns; e.g., NEM 4:292-300 (c.1903?), EP 2:304 (1904), CP 6.338-344 (1909). Perhaps you and Gary R. can carry on from here and have a fruitful discussion. Enjoy the sponge cake! :-) Regards, Jon S. On Mon, Fe

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Collateral Experience and Habits of Interpretation (was Immediate Objects and Phenomena)

2018-02-05 Thread Edwina Taborsky
--"matter is effete mind." That is yet another can of worms that we probably should not reopen right now. Thanks, Jon S. On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 8:38 AM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: Jon, list - there are multiple semiosic actions going on 'at the same time' so to speak.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Collateral Experience and Habits of Interpretation (was Immediate Objects and Phenomena)

2018-02-05 Thread Edwina Taborsky
Object) and the bird's response of flight (Dynamic Interpretant). Again, I agree that the bird's habits play a role in the process, somewhere between those two stages. Regards, Jon S. On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 7:48 AM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: Jon, Gary R, list: OK - let's try a human

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Collateral Experience and Habits of Interpretation (was Immediate Objects and Phenomena)

2018-02-05 Thread Edwina Taborsky
ular Dynamic Interpretant from the range of possibilities that constitutes the Immediate Interpretant. 4. It sounds like we agree on interpreting Peirce as holding that substances (like an individual bird) are bundles of habits. Regards, Jon S. On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 7:31 AM, Edwina Taborsky wrote:

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