Ben,
Just one word about a small part of your response (I am now lacking time
for a much detailed response). You wrote:
I had said that your scenario implies that a mind gets
object-acquaintance from a sign (the previous interpretant) to that
same mind about the object. So you contradicted
List,
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I couldn't help but think of Peirce's comments on intellectual hope in
relation to the "social impulse" as I read in this letter in The New
York Times today that "Unsettling as it might be, the future is
unpredictable, and surprises are inevitable. Hope [as opposed to
optimism] is
Dear Folks-- poking about I found that much of what
Peirce says about perceptionrelevant to our discussion of
verification. (I think what makes verification possible within
representation is that the capacity to respond to secondness is inherent in
representation -- Peirce didn't say that
