Re: [PEIRCE-L] Determination and mediation

2018-02-14 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Jeff, List: Given the consternation that often arises anytime we start talking about "determination" on the List, I am not sure that--at least in Peirce's usage--it is really any "simpler" than other concepts like mediation, representation, signification, etc. The contemporary notion of

[PEIRCE-L] Determination and mediation

2018-02-13 Thread Jeffrey Brian Downard
Jon S, Gary F, Gary R, List, I've been thinking about Peirce's explanations of how signs represent objects to interpretants. In this vein, I'd like to ask a straightforward question about the relation of determination and the role it seems to play in his account of semiosis. Some have