[peirce-l] Re: Existent vs Real

2006-02-18 Thread Jim Piat
Dea Folks, I'm thinking it might be helpful to try to distinguish between the notions of real and true. One can contrast real with imaginary and true with false. Some further preliminary thoughts below. As in maybe--- Peirce proposes that being comes in three modes -- the potential, the

[peirce-l] Re: NEW ELEMENTS: So what is it all about?

2006-02-18 Thread Joseph Ransdell
Ben, you say: I don't pose a tetradic reduction thesis applicable to all relations. I just say that there's a fourth semiotic term that isn't any of the classic three. A sign stands for an object to an interpretant on the basis of a recognition. I think that an increasingly good reason to

[peirce-l] Re: NEW ELEMENTS: So what is it all about?

2006-02-18 Thread Jim Piat
Dear Ben, Just to let you know that I've been reading and enjoying your many recent comments. I haven't commented because I can't keep up with your pace -- but hopefully I will catch up some in time. I especially enjoying your persistent examination of what it means to interpret

[peirce-l] Stauss on Interpretation

2006-02-18 Thread Jim Piat
Dear Folks, As promised, a quote from Leo Strauss' essay on Spinoza in Persecution and the Art of Writing. Not at all the elitist view of reading the greats that I had mistakingly come to think Strauss might have been advocating. In any case I thought it might be fun to read in light of

[peirce-l] Re: NEW ELEMENTS: So what is it all about?

2006-02-18 Thread Gary Richmond
Joe, Ben, List, Joe wrote: I don't see anything reductive in assuming that the analysis of cognition, including recognition, can be done in terms of a signs, objects, and interpretants as elements of or in cognitive processes, andif this involves shifting phenomenological gears and

[peirce-l] Re: NEW ELEMENTS: So what is it all about?

2006-02-18 Thread Benjamin Udell
Joe, list, [Joe] Ben, you say: [Ben] I don't pose a tetradic reduction thesis applicable to all relations. I just say that there's a fourth semiotic term that isn't any of the classic three. A sign stands for an object to an interpretant on the basis of a recognition. I think that an