It appears that my connectivity problems have been resolved and that I can now
post directly to the forum. I’ll catch up with unanswered posts in batches
tonight and tomorrow and then I’ll try to respond more quickly and on a one to
one basis. Tonight I’ll comment on the 3 Oct posts from Gary Fu
Stephen,
There is a curious resonance between several of the political themes that arose
in our discussion of sciences as communicational communities and several of the
philosophical (broadly formal, logical, or mathematical) themes that come up in
Peirce's semiotics. It's an echo that has lurked
IA = Irving H. Anellis
IA: From the quotation which follows J.R.'s claim that some 90 percent or
more of Peirce’s work in philosophy is concerned with semiotics, i.e.
CSP: "Know that from the day when at the age of 12 or 13 I took up, in my
elder brother's room a copy of Whately's "Logi
NH = Nathan Houser
JR = Joe Ransdell
NH: Let me make a quick reply and later when I have more time I'll go back to
Joe's paper to see if he may have had something like what you say in mind.
I suppose a lot depends on precisely what Joe meant by "directly concerned
with semiotic" when
