Re: [PEIRCE-L] [biosemiotics:8551] Re: Natural

2015-05-01 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
Ben: (B) in the sense of to be or not to be, that is the question! :-) (A) requires one to change the units of measure and hence the mode of measurement of different disciplines. (A) also requires artificial signs for numbers or whatever markers one is doing the bookkeeping in. Of

Re: [PEIRCE-L] [biosemiotics:8551] Re: Natural

2015-05-01 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
Ben, List: Biological measurements are expressed in terms of units in the sense of Kempe, as cited by CSP. They are referred to chemical measurements by reference to molecular biology. Chemical measurements are inferred by reference to physical measurements. CSP refers indirectly to these

Re: [PEIRCE-L] [biosemiotics:8551] Re: Natural

2015-05-01 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jerry, lists, Do you mean (A) measurements made by physicists, chemists, biologists? Or (B) all those measurements and also physical, chemical, and biological interactions as constituting measurements even when no person is involved? (I was discussing things in the perspective of (B)).