[PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions

2015-04-27 Thread John Collier
Nice catch, Jeff. Perhaps there is a textual basis for my difference with Gary (and Søren). John -Original Message- From: Jeffrey Brian Downard [mailto:jeffrey.down...@nau.edu] Sent: April 26, 2015 2:11 PM To: biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee Cc: Peirce-L Subject: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions

2015-04-26 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
Jeff, Lists: Excellent post! To me, these distinctions reveal aspects of CSP's thought that are oft ignored and which probably arise from his training is chemistry as well as other disciplines. Before I comment, however, it is important to note that at first blush, I presumed that the

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions

2015-04-26 Thread Jeffrey Brian Downard
Gary R., John, Lists, Here is what Peirce says in his essay on Telepathy (CP 7.604) as he tries to clarify the division he is drawing between percept and perceptual judgment: Analysis of the experience of the chair as it appears before me now. a. The chair I appear to see makes no

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Ch. 10. Corollarial and Theorematic Experiments with Diagrams

2015-04-25 Thread Jon Awbrey
Thread: JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/16298 GR:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/16299 GR:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/16300 Exactamundo! that's the very tag I had in mind. Jon On 4/25/2015 1:50 PM, Gary

Re: [biosemiotics:8399] RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Ch. 10. Corollarial and Theorematic Experiments with Diagrams

2015-04-25 Thread Benjamin Udell
Gary R., Jeff, lists, note that Peirce wrote more than one essay with a title beginning with the words The Logic of Mathematics. The one in question is (circa 1896), The Logic of Mathematics; An Attempt to Develop My Categories from Within. CP 1.417–519. http://www.textlog.de/4267.html Two

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Ch. 10. Corollarial and Theorematic Experiments with Diagrams

2015-04-25 Thread Gary Richmond
Jon, Frederik, lists, Jon, please see the last paragraph of my just posted excerpt from one of Nathan Houser's papers--exactly to your point, I'd say. Best, Gary [image: Gary Richmond] *Gary Richmond* *Philosophy and Critical Thinking* *Communication Studies* *LaGuardia College of the City

Re: [biosemiotics:8399] RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Ch. 10. Corollarial and Theorematic Experiments with Diagrams

2015-04-25 Thread Gary Richmond
] Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 10:20 AM To: biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee Cc: Peirce-L Subject: Re: [biosemiotics:8399] RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Ch. 10. Corollarial and Theorematic Experiments with Diagrams Jeff, Jon, lists, Jeff, I think your response to Jon's concerns about

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Ch. 10. Corollarial and Theorematic Experiments with Diagrams

2015-04-24 Thread Tommi Vehkavaara
Jon, list On 24.4.2015 15:58, Jon Awbrey wrote: Tommi, List, The fact that we know the world via perceptions and representations does not mean that the world is constructed of reduces to perceptions and representations. Of course not, but I guess you suggest that a priori here refers to

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Ch. 10. Corollarial and Theorematic Experiments with Diagrams

2015-04-24 Thread Jon Awbrey
Tommi, List, Not in the least. The à priori is a category of logic and methodology — it refers to the axiomatic method of constructing representations — not a category of metaphysics or ontology. This is the meaning of fallibilism and the point of hypostatic abstractions. Peirce had no

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Ch. 10. Corollarial and Theorematic Experiments with Diagrams

2015-04-24 Thread Jeffrey Brian Downard
[jawb...@att.net] Sent: Friday, April 24, 2015 6:56 AM To: Tommi Vehkavaara Cc: biosemiotics at lists.ut.ee; peirce-l at list.iupui.edu Subject: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Ch. 10. Corollarial and Theorematic Experiments with Diagrams Tommi, List, Not in the least. The à priori

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Ch. 10. Corollarial and Theorematic Experiments with Diagrams

2015-04-24 Thread Tommi Vehkavaara
Edwina wrote: Tommi- that's an interesting conclusion of yours - which is, to me, puzzling. To my understanding, Thirdness, which is the domain of generals, is not directly accessible by the senses; we cannot 'observe generals directly'. And these generals are, in addition, evolving from the

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Ch. 10. Corollarial and Theorematic Experiments with Diagrams

2015-04-24 Thread Jon Awbrey
Frederick, Gary, List, In all three cases the order of the first two premisses is variable and can be switched without affecting the their relationship to the inferred Fact, Case, or Rule. There is an extended discussion of the three types of reasoning in Aristotle and Peirce, with diagrams and

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Ch. 10. Corollarial and Theorematic Experiments with Diagrams

2015-04-24 Thread Edwina Taborsky
, 2015 10:06 AM Subject: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Ch. 10. Corollarial and Theorematic Experiments with Diagrams Edwina wrote: Tommi- that's an interesting conclusion of yours - which is, to me, puzzling. To my understanding, Thirdness, which is the domain of generals

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Ch. 10. Corollarial and Theorematic Experiments with Diagrams

2015-04-24 Thread Tommi Vehkavaara
Sorry Jeff, and all I did not meant to say anything about Kant's views, my comments were just too fast reactions of the misunderstanding of Jons comment that was a response to my query how the talk about fallible a priori structures could be compatible with Peirce's idea that all the elements

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Ch. 10. Corollarial and Theorematic Experiments with Diagrams

2015-04-24 Thread Jon Awbrey
Tommi, List, No, I didn't follow that part of the debate as it seemed to take place mostly on the bisemiotics list. Not sure I get that sense of à priori either. Vague reminder of things I used to read in Claude Levi-Strauss or even Jung is about all I got out of it. Regards, Jon

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Ch. 10. Corollarial and Theorematic Experiments with Diagrams

2015-04-24 Thread Tommi Vehkavaara
Jon ok, my hypothesis what you meant was false, and you can forgot my too fast associations with Ding an sich selbst. But then I just did not get what was your point, because I was just quesstioning asking the about Fredrik's idea of food as 'biological a priori', if I did not get even that

RE: [biosemiotics:8399] RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Ch. 10. Corollarial and Theorematic Experiments with Diagrams

2015-04-24 Thread Jeffrey Brian Downard
] Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 10:20 AM To: biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee Cc: Peirce-L Subject: Re: [biosemiotics:8399] RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Ch. 10. Corollarial and Theorematic Experiments with Diagrams Jeff, Jon, lists, Jeff, I think your response to Jon's concerns about Ketner's

Re: [biosemiotics:8434] Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Ch. 10. Corollarial and Theorematic Experiments with Diagrams

2015-04-24 Thread Gary Richmond
If you object that there can be no immediate consciousness of generality, I grant that. If you add that one can have no direct experience of the general, I grant that as well. Generality, Thirdness, pours in upon us in our very perceptual judgments, and all reasoning, so far as it depends on

Re: [biosemiotics:8399] RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Ch. 10. Corollarial and Theorematic Experiments with Diagrams

2015-04-23 Thread Gary Richmond
NAU (o) 523-8354 From: Jon Awbrey [jawb...@att.net] Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2015 2:12 PM To: Gary Richmond; Peirce-L; biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee Subject: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Ch. 10. Corollarial and Theorematic Experiments with Diagrams

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Ch. 10. Corollarial and Theorematic Experiments with Diagrams

2015-04-22 Thread Gary Richmond
Cathy, Jon, Frederik, Lists, I agree that CP 2.227 is a most extraordinary passage, one which Ken Ketner has referred to as one of the most remarkable theoretical passages ever written (Ketner, *A Thief of Peirce,* 276). Just before quoting it he remarks that in it Peirce brought together the

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Ch. 10. Corollarial and Theorematic Experiments with Diagrams

2015-04-22 Thread Jeffrey Brian Downard
Department of Philosophy NAU (o) 523-8354 From: Jon Awbrey [jawb...@att.net] Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2015 2:12 PM To: Gary Richmond; Peirce-L; biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee Subject: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Ch. 10. Corollarial and Theorematic

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Ch. 10. Corollarial and Theorematic Experiments with Diagrams

2015-04-22 Thread Jon Awbrey
Re: Gary Richmond At: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/16249 Gary, List, There are many problems here that I see right off. (1) A major problem is that icons are not the most general types of signs and so the leap to signs in general falls a bit short. (2) A minor

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Ch. 10. Corollarial and Theorematic Experiments with Diagrams

2015-04-22 Thread Jon Awbrey
Thread (just the part I've able to follow so far): FR:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/16188 JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/16189 BU:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/16190

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Ch. 10. Corollarial and Theorematic Experiments with Diagrams

2015-04-22 Thread Catherine Legg
It is a great quote, thanks Jon. In the quote Peirce is describing experimenting on diagrams, and this is how we need to understand his mature account of the a priori I think, thus as also some form of 'empiricism' - also seconding Jeff's important observation that we need to beware of the

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Ch. 10. Corollarial and Theorematic Experiments with Diagrams

2015-04-21 Thread Jon Awbrey
Re: Franklin Ransom At: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/16188 Franklin, List, I will need to approach this point of inquiry a bit circuitously. For basic orientation I always begin with a canonical statement from Peirce, along with the figure that I drew to illustrate

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Ch. 10. Corollarial and Theorematic Experiments with Diagrams

2015-04-21 Thread Frederik Stjernfelt
Dear Jon - Another great quote from the canon. It distinguishes between two dimensions of necessity in the investigation of signs: that of the result of the investigation (which is there) and that of the process of investigation (which needs not be there, as all processes are fallible).

[PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions: Chapter 11/12

2015-03-31 Thread Jeffrey Brian Downard
Lists, A correction or two in the last post. It should have read: I am working on the assumption that Peirce is actively considering all three positions as hypotheses--but he is worried that (a) and (b) will leave us with residual phenomena that can't, as a matter of principle, be explained

[PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions: Chapter 11/12 Strategies of Research: Peirces Enlightenment Maxims

2015-03-30 Thread Gary Fuhrman
Yogi, Cathy L., lists, This is quite an admirable and thought-provoking summary of the concluding chapters of NP. I think Stjernfelt has opened some new doors to the fuller comprehension of Peircean semiotics and its contribution to cenoscopy, and your post in turn opens some doors to the

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions

2015-02-08 Thread Jeffrey Brian Downard
Hi Frederik, Gary F., Lists I've been thinking a bit more about Frederik's account of optimal iconicity. One point I'd like to note is that Peirce does not appear to use optimal when talking about iconicity, at least not in the CP. He does, however, use perfect as a modifier of iconicity.

Re: [biosemiotics:7928] Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions:

2015-01-17 Thread Benjamin Udell
Howard, lists, My sense of it is that Peirce does not push the idea that mathematicals are real. His discussions of math and reality tend to involve a variation of sense of word 'real' into the concretely real, the actual, the existent, etc. He says that mathematicians (of whom he of course

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions : Chapter 8 - On the philosophical nature of semiosis?

2015-01-17 Thread Benjamin Udell
corollarial and theorematic deduction. Eternal conceivability is not a pragmatic or pragmaticistically meaningful concept. gary f. From: Jon Awbrey [mailto:jawb...@att.net] Sent: 17-Jan-15 7:35 AM To: Howard Pattee Cc: Peirce List Subject: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions : Chapter 8 Re: Gary

Re: [biosemiotics:7928] [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions:

2015-01-17 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
List, Ben: On Jan 17, 2015, at 11:59 AM, Benjamin Udell wrote: My sense of it is that Peirce does not push the idea that mathematicals are real. Thanks, Ben. This is a critical thought, at least to me. It is of substantial importance for interpreting the relations between CSP's notion of a

Re: [biosemiotics:7928] Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions:

2015-01-17 Thread Benjamin Udell
Howard, lists, The following is Peirce's nearest approach that I've found him making to an affirmation of the reality of mathematicals. Peirce does not identify himself as the 'metaphysician' whom he mentions, but that metaphysician makes a specifically Peircean kind of argument for the

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions : Chapter 8

2015-01-17 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
List, Jon: On Jan 17, 2015, at 3:32 PM, Jon Awbrey wrote: But I can assure you that mathematicians as a rule, including Peirce, regard mathematical objects as “having properties”, which makes them “real” according to the technical Scholastic definition of “real” that Peirce always uses

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions : Chapter 8

2015-01-17 Thread Jon Awbrey
Re: Gary Fuhrman At: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/15405 But we have no conception of inconceivable consequences. Jon http://inquiryintoinquiry.com On Jan 16, 2015, at 9:16 PM, Jon Awbrey jawb...@att.net wrote: Howard, There has historically been a lot of

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions : Chapter 8

2015-01-17 Thread Gary Fuhrman
be no difference between corollarial and theorematic deduction. Eternal conceivability is not a pragmatic or pragmaticistically meaningful concept. gary f. From: Jon Awbrey [mailto:jawb...@att.net] Sent: 17-Jan-15 7:35 AM To: Howard Pattee Cc: Peirce List Subject: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions : Chapter 8

2015-01-17 Thread Jon Awbrey
concept. gary f. From: Jon Awbrey [mailto:jawb...@att.net] Sent: 17-Jan-15 7:35 AM To: Howard Pattee Cc: Peirce List Subject: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions : Chapter 8 Re: Gary Fuhrman At: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/15405 But we have no conception

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions : Chapter 8

2015-01-17 Thread Benjamin Udell
: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions : Chapter 8 Re: Gary Fuhrman At: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/15405 But we have no conception of inconceivable consequences. Jon - PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on Reply List or Reply All to REPLY

Re: [biosemiotics:7928] Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions:

2015-01-17 Thread Howard Pattee
At 12:44 AM 1/17/2015, Gary Richmond wrote: Howard wrote: I agree with http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/realism/SEP http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/realism/Realism: Those who have looked at this article may or may not, have noticed that Peirce's understanding of realism isn't even

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions : Chapter 8 - On the philosophical nature of semiosis?

2015-01-17 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
or pragmaticistically meaningful concept. gary f. From: Jon Awbrey [mailto:jawb...@att.net] Sent: 17-Jan-15 7:35 AM To: Howard Pattee Cc: Peirce List Subject: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions : Chapter 8 Re: Gary Fuhrman At: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions:

2015-01-16 Thread Jon Awbrey
Not really a sin. More like self-deception. Go in peace ... Jon - PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on Reply List or Reply All to REPLY ON PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to peirce-L@list.iupui.edu . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L but

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions:

2015-01-16 Thread Gary Richmond
Howard wrote: I agree with SEP http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/realism/ Realism http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/realism/: Those who have looked at this article may or may not, have noticed that Peirce's understanding of realism isn't even mentioned in it. Gary [image: Gary Richmond]

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions : Chapter 8

2015-01-15 Thread Jon Awbrey
Gary, List, We've been through these issues so many times before that I can't think of anything new to say right off. Pragmatic Maxim (PORT, Ontology, Peirce, SemioCom Lists : April-June 2002) ☞ http://web.archive.org/web/20070705085032/http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/thrd25.html#04226 ☞

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions : Chapter 8

2015-01-14 Thread Jon Awbrey
Re: Gary Richmond At: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/15362 Gary, List, Just off-hand I would have to say that the most important criterion in regard to iconicity is relevant iconicity. The analogy, the icon, and the morphism are of imagination all compact. The

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions: Chapter 8

2015-01-07 Thread Gary Fuhrman
Gary R, lists, Regarding your point about simplicity, which is well taken: What I had in mind was the tendency of people (unaccustomed to Peircean perspectives on iconicity) to think of the typical icon as something like a stop sign, or the sign on a washroom door, or the mini-graphics on our

[PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions Chapter 6 and phaneroscopy

2014-12-02 Thread Gary Fuhrman
John, I have no idea what you might mean by “firsts and seconds in biology”, or how dicent signs could “precede” them. Perhaps Frederik does, since you attribute that opinion to him … But maybe this will be clarified by your concluding post on Chapter 6 of NP. (We’ll wait for that before we

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions

2014-11-08 Thread Jon Awbrey
Re: Ben Udell At: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14908 Thanks a Billion, Ben, I was really hoping ''someone'' would still remember the Real Peirce well enough to make those well-taken appreciations of his Real POV. It's a dirty job, but somebody's gotta do it ...

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions Chapter 4

2014-10-20 Thread Jon Awbrey
Re:Tyler Bennet At:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14779 Peircers, The Peirce I have known for nigh unto the last 50 years is not much in evidence on the Peirce List anymore, so I'll just limit myself to one general observation that I've made before and then hope

[PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.7 - 3.9

2014-10-19 Thread Jeffrey Brian Downard
NAU (o) 523-8354 From: Jeffrey Brian Downard [jeffrey.down...@nau.edu] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 9:19 PM To: Peirce List; biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee Subject: RE: [PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.7 - 3.9 Lists, Several comments have been

RE: [PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.7 - 3.9

2014-10-15 Thread Gary Fuhrman
Tom, my response is interleaved: From: Tom Gollier [mailto:tgoll...@gmail.com] Sent: 14-Oct-14 7:58 PM I have to say, I just don't get this idea of real facts from reading Peirce. On the one hand, we have the denotation of the subject, something we all seem to agree on. On the other

Re: [biosemiotics:7234] RE: [PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.7 - 3.9

2014-10-15 Thread Tom Gollier
Gary, you asked: What other ways to you have in mind? I would have to say I think any logical relationship can link an index and icon. Thus, myself and my fingerprints might even be a better example for the point I'm trying to make. Instead of the implicative relationship associated with

Re: [PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.7 - 3.9

2014-10-14 Thread Tom Gollier
I have to say, I just don't get this idea of real facts from reading Peirce. On the one hand, we have the denotation of the subject, something we all seem to agree on. On the other hand, Peirce describes the signifying of the predicate, in discussing the icon more generally, as: If it [an

RE: [PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.7 - 3.9

2014-10-14 Thread Jeffrey Brian Downard
: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 4:57 PM To: Peirce List; biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.7 - 3.9 I have to say, I just don't get this idea of real facts from reading Peirce. On the one hand, we have the denotation of the subject, something we all

[PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.7 - 3.9

2014-10-13 Thread Catherine Legg
Hi everyone, I’ve made some progress reading chapter 3. Re. 3.7: I’m very excited by this idea of replacing a copula with an index. (Subject and predicate are joined by “an index pointing to the *real fact *joining the Subject and the Object.”) I see how this idea lines up with the

Re: [PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.7 - 3.9

2014-10-13 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
List: (N.B.: This post includes abstract technical rhetoric which may be incomprehensible to non-technical readers.) Sung's suggestion (copied below) is far to simple (in my opinion). The triadic triad requires triple and higher order articulations of the metaphysical forms of inquiry into

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.7 - 3.9

2014-10-13 Thread Gary Richmond
Cathy, lists, Cathy wrote: Re. 3.9: Love the 'top-down' functional analysis of arguments whereby they are not **composed** of propositions and terms, but rather the latter are prescinded after the fact. Closely related to this in 3.9 is something which might be of particular interest to

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.8

2014-10-11 Thread Gary Fuhrman
...@nyc.rr.com] Sent: 10-Oct-14 12:36 PM To: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.8 Gary F., Jon, I think that Jon was suggesting that Peirce was consciously operating in a terminological tradition including the fields that we now call probability theory

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.8

2014-10-10 Thread Jon Awbrey
Gary All, Just off-hand, you might look into the way the term event is used in probability and statistics, and the technical distinction that is made between event and occurrence. I'm pretty sure the terms have been used that way since Boole, at least, if not since the time of Fermat and

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.8

2014-10-10 Thread Gary Fuhrman
: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.8 Gary All, Just off-hand, you might look into the way the term event is used in probability and statistics, and the technical distinction that is made between event and occurrence. I'm pretty sure the terms have been used that way since Boole, at least

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.8

2014-10-10 Thread Benjamin Udell
the dialogue, we can *learn* that they are wrong, and guess again. gary f. -Original Message- From: Jon Awbrey [mailto:jawb...@att.net] Sent: 10-Oct-14 9:10 AM To: 'Peirce List' Cc: biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee Subject: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.8 Gary All, Just off

Re: [biosemiotics:7188] RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.8

2014-10-10 Thread Gary Richmond
...@att.net] Sent: 10-Oct-14 9:10 AM To: 'Peirce List' Cc: biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee Subject: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.8 Gary All, Just off-hand, you might look into the way the term event is used in probability and statistics, and the technical distinction

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.7

2014-10-09 Thread Jon Awbrey
Chapter 3.7 GF:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14615 JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14618 Gary, List, Of course, we could try our own hands at sketching an Existential Graph of what Peirce is saying here, whether we read it as assertion

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.7

2014-10-08 Thread Jon Awbrey
Gary, FYSMI, because when I was pondering that portion of the Syllabus I was going to remark that I considered it an exemplary text -- exemplary of a style that gives me a headache! -- and that the only excuse I could make for it would be that it read like an English paraphrase of some

[PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.7

2014-10-07 Thread Gary Fuhrman
As per Sung's request, here's the defining text on Dicisigns, from EP2:275-83. The usual warnings about taking a text out of context apply here too: the reader who hasn't read the whole of selection 20 in EP2, Sundry Logical Conceptions, is unlikely to fully understand this; and the Dicisign

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.6

2014-10-06 Thread Jon Awbrey
Gary, Howard, It is necessary to distinguish information from measures of information. Peirce's concept of information is compatible with but generalizes Shannon's. A good way to get a start on understanding Peirce's idea of information is to read what he rewrites about it in his 1865 1866

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.6

2014-10-06 Thread Jon Awbrey
Re: Gary Fuhrman At:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14544 Gary, Howard, All, Between the iPhone spitting out some bytes it found not to its taste and the Auto(spell)bot rewriting wrong some of my writes, I'm afraid the information in my last message got more than a

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.6

2014-10-06 Thread Sungchul Ji
Jon wrote: It is necessary to distinguish information (100614-1) from measures of information. Is this because information has three aspects/properties -- i) quantity, ii) meaning, and iii) value, and yest Shannon's information theory and other similar quantitative approaches to

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.6

2014-10-06 Thread Jon Awbrey
JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14548 SJ:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14554 Sung, List, It is not the purpose of a measure to replace the thing measured. Whether a measure serves any given purpose depends on many factors: its à priori

[Fwd: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.6]

2014-10-06 Thread Sungchul Ji
Excuse me, The following quotations were from Gary F, not from Jon. Sung Original Message Subject: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.6 From:Sungchul Ji s...@rci.rutgers.edu Date:Mon, October 6, 2014 3:35 pm

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.6

2014-10-06 Thread Sungchul Ji
/Rehabit.htm gary f. -Original Message- From: Jon Awbrey [mailto:jawb...@att.net] Sent: 6-Oct-14 8:54 AM To: 'Peirce List' Cc: biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee Subject: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.6 Re: Gary Fuhrman At:http://permalink.gmane.org

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.6

2014-10-06 Thread Gary Fuhrman
Sung, you need to read the EP passages cited (and/or Natural Propositions, Chapter 3) on dicisigns and propositions. They do not have icons as objects; rather their *relation to* their object is iconic as well as indexical (and sometimes symbolic). There is no other way for an indexical sign to

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions . Selected Passages

2014-10-04 Thread Sungchul Ji
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[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions • Selected Passages

2014-10-04 Thread Jon Awbrey
Re: Jeffrey Brian Downard At: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14434 Jeff, List, I had a faint memory of discussing the relation between k-adic and k-tomic with Tom Gollier in my early days on the Peirce List, and for once my memory serves me well. I found this link

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

2014-10-03 Thread Jon Awbrey
Gary, List, Pragmatic objects are intentional objects. Jon http://inquiryintoinquiry.com http://inquiryintoinquiry.com On Oct 3, 2014, at 11:48 AM, Gary Fuhrman g...@gnusystems.ca wrote: Section 3.5 of NP takes up “The Indexical Side of Dicisigns” by first showing the importance of (and

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

2014-10-03 Thread Gary Fuhrman
Jon, So? From: Jon Awbrey [mailto:jawb...@att.net] Sent: 3-Oct-14 12:21 PM Gary, List, Pragmatic objects are intentional objects. Jon - PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on Reply List or Reply All to REPLY ON PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions • Selected Passages

2014-10-03 Thread Sungchul Ji
Jon Trying to comprehend triadic relations by means of their projective trichotomies is a project ultimately doomed to fail. A couple of concrete examples would help in understanding what you mean by the doomed failure you are referring to. With all the best. Sung

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions • Selected Passages

2014-10-03 Thread Sungchul Ji
Downard Associate Professor Department of Philosophy NAU (o) 523-8354 From: Jon Awbrey [jawb...@att.net] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2014 7:44 PM To: Peirce List 1 Subject: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions • Selected Passages

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions . Selected Passages

2014-10-03 Thread Benjamin Udell
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[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions • Selected Passages

2014-10-03 Thread Jon Awbrey
Thread: JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14286 JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14290 GF:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14313 JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14350

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions . Selected Passages

2014-10-03 Thread Sungchul Ji
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Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions • Selected Passages

2014-10-03 Thread Sungchul Ji
Jon, I am afraid your answer is as incomprehensible to me as was your original remark that prompted my question. With all the best. Sung Thread: JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14286 JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14290

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions • Selected Passages

2014-10-03 Thread Jon Awbrey
Peircers, The more I pondered the first two quotations from the Syllabus that Frederik cited in Chapter 3.4, the more I felt compelled to study that part of the text in detail, and I eventually copied out a longer extract from EP 2, 275–277, taking that over the comparable but editorially

Re: [biosemiotics:6973] [PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.1

2014-10-02 Thread Frederik Stjernfelt
To: biosemiot...@lists.ut.eemailto:biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee; 'Peirce List' Subject: [biosemiotics:6973] RE: [PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.1 Gary F., Jon, Lists, Looking back on my own struggles to find coherence in Peirce's published and unpublished writings, I now think

Re: [biosemiotics:6973] [PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.1

2014-10-02 Thread Frederik Stjernfelt
Dear Clark, lists - Mathematics certainly deals in propositions according to P. P's general philosophy of math claims that math is about forms of relations, and that those abstract objects are addressed by the help of diagrams. Existing, particular, physical diagram tokens permit the access to

Re: [biosemiotics:6973] [PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.1

2014-10-02 Thread Frederik Stjernfelt
Dear Clark, lists, Den 25/09/2014 kl. 19.22 skrev Clark Goble cl...@lextek.commailto:cl...@lextek.com: On Sep 25, 2014, at 8:50 AM, Frederik Stjernfelt stj...@hum.ku.dkmailto:stj...@hum.ku.dk wrote: This isn’t to say Heidegger and Peirce are the same. Just that I think the move towards an

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions • Selected Passages

2014-10-02 Thread Jon Awbrey
Peircers, Another passage from ''Natural Propositions'' that appeared to light up before my mind's eye — I'm guessing because of all the time I whiled away wrestling with divergent views of assertion when I first began studying the history of logic — is this selection from Chapter 3. quote

Re: [biosemiotics:6973] [PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.1

2014-10-02 Thread Clark Goble
On Oct 2, 2014, at 4:59 AM, Frederik Stjernfelt stj...@hum.ku.dk wrote: Mathematics certainly deals in propositions according to P. P's general philosophy of math claims that math is about forms of relations, and that those abstract objects are addressed by the help of diagrams.

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions • Selected Passages

2014-10-01 Thread Jon Awbrey
Thread: JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14286 JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14290 GF:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14313 JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14350

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions • Selected Passages

2014-10-01 Thread Jeffrey Brian Downard
, 2014 7:44 PM To: Peirce List 1 Subject: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions • Selected Passages Thread: JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14286 JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14290 GF:http://permalink.gmane.org

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions • Selected Passages

2014-10-01 Thread Benjamin Udell
From: Jon Awbrey [jawb...@att.net] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2014 7:44 PM To: Peirce List 1 Subject: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions • Selected Passages - PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on Reply List or Reply All to REPLY ON PEIRCE-L

Re: [biosemiotics:7030] RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions

2014-09-30 Thread Edwina Taborsky
other forms. Edwina - Original Message - From: Gary Fuhrman g...@gnusystems.ca To: biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee; 'Peirce List' PEIRCE-L@list.iupui.edu Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 10:03 AM Subject: [biosemiotics:7030] RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions Jeff, I was leaving

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions . Selected Passages

2014-09-30 Thread Gary Fuhrman
. -Original Message- From: Jon Awbrey [mailto:jawb...@att.net] Sent: 27-Sep-14 11:09 PM To: Frederik Stjernfelt Cc: PEIRCE-L@list.iupui.edu; Gary Fuhrman; Gary Richmond; Benjamin Udell Subject: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions . Selected Passages Gary F, Gary R, List, It has long been my

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions • Selected Passages

2014-09-30 Thread Jon Awbrey
Thread: JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14286 JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14290 GF:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14313 JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14350

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions • Selected Passages

2014-09-26 Thread Jon Awbrey
Thread: JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14286 JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14290 GF:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14313 JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14350

RE: [biosemiotics:6973] RE: [PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.1

2014-09-25 Thread Gary Fuhrman
grasp of Peirce's philosophy as a whole without getting at least a basic grip on his philosophy of mathematics. gary f. -Original Message- From: Clark Goble [mailto:cl...@lextek.com] Sent: 24-Sep-14 1:18 PM To: Peirce List Subject: Re: [biosemiotics:6973] RE: [PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural

[PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions . Selected Passages

2014-09-25 Thread Gary Fuhrman
Jon, I think it would be better if you would combine the quotes from NP and your comments in a single message. It would also be better if you (and everyone) would send posts only to the list(s), i.e. delete the addresses of individuals from your address field before you send, as that would avoid

Re: [biosemiotics:6973] RE: [PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.1

2014-09-25 Thread Frederik Stjernfelt
Dear Clark, lists, Den 24/09/2014 kl. 22.17 skrev Clark Goble cl...@lextek.commailto:cl...@lextek.com : On Sep 24, 2014, at 1:16 PM, Gary Richmond gary.richm...@gmail.commailto:gary.richm...@gmail.com wrote: In any event, I'm finding section 4. of New Elements of especial interest and want

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions

2014-09-25 Thread Jeffrey Brian Downard
Frederik, Lists, You say: Peirce saw thought as an argument chain whose resting points were propositions. For the sake of sorting through some of the disagreements that have been voiced about what kinds of signs or representamens may be found in the physical, chemical, biological or social

Re: [biosemiotics:6973] RE: [PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.1

2014-09-25 Thread Clark Goble
On Sep 25, 2014, at 8:50 AM, Frederik Stjernfelt stj...@hum.ku.dk wrote: This isn’t to say Heidegger and Peirce are the same. Just that I think the move towards an externalist approach to mind in Heidegger is also made in Peirce. And it’s precisely within the proposition (or more

RE: [biosemiotics:6973] RE: [PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.1

2014-09-24 Thread Gary Fuhrman
'on the road' in Germany this week and may not have time to post. gary f. -Original Message- From: Jeffrey Brian Downard [mailto:jeffrey.down...@nau.edu] Sent: 23-Sep-14 6:05 PM To: biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee; 'Peirce List' Subject: [biosemiotics:6973] RE: [PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions

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