[PEIRCE-L] Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.5

2014-10-03 Thread Gary Fuhrman
Section 3.5 of NP takes up The Indexical Side of Dicisigns by first showing the importance of (and the more recent terminology for) Peirce's advances in the algebra of logic which made it possible to separate the subject and predicate parts of the proposition, and thus the indexical and iconic

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.5

2014-10-03 Thread Jeffrey Brian Downard
. --Jeff Jeff Downard Associate Professor Department of Philosophy NAU (o) 523-8354 From: Gary Fuhrman [g...@gnusystems.ca] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2014 8:48 AM To: biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee; 'Peirce List' Subject: [PEIRCE-L] Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.5

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.5

2014-10-03 Thread Clark Goble
On Oct 3, 2014, at 12:30 PM, Jeffrey Brian Downard jeffrey.down...@nau.edu wrote: Perhaps we should distinguish between different ways that the word 'intention' is used in Peirce's texts. There is the common meaning that is expressed when I say, for instance, that my intention in

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.5

2014-10-03 Thread Clark Goble
On Oct 3, 2014, at 2:28 PM, Gary Fuhrman g...@gnusystems.ca wrote: I wasn't referring to intentionality in the sense of aboutness, or to the scholastic ideas of first and second intentions; I guess it's tautologically true that informational signs must involve intentions in that sense.