Mapping the Medium

I understand doubt quite well. As for whatever it is you are reading in me, perhaps that doubt has helped me through more than 50 years of research an...

Not at all.

I am not assuming that about you at all. I was just being clear. ... My experience has taught me that sometimes that is necessary when someone doesn't...

If you really think that I am trying to promote AI in my work, you are sorely mistaken, and there is no reason to discuss this further.

If you carefully and thoroughly review my work, you will see how right you are and that nominalism is the problem.

You should carefully and thoroughly read it.

Did you read the link at the bottom of the post? I am not able to continue this discussion right now (I'm working), but I hope you will read and explo...

The trickiness lies in the fact that what we call 'concrete' and 'abstract' are not binary but exist along a continuum. Sweet and sweetness, hard and ...

They are free to explore on those links, but I know they can be difficult to read without blowing up. And if you're anything like me, you'd want to hi...

If any reader of this thread would like to explore Peirce's work, perhaps these links will help. Writings of Charles S. Peirce: a chronological editio...

Lol ... ok :wink:

I invite Socrates to join in on my thread about hypostatic abstraction, precisive abstraction, and proper and improper negation. :sparkle:

I also want to mention here that it is absolutely necessary to study Peirce and not "those who have followed him". It is a severe problem in the arena...

So sorry. ... I did not mean to overlook your request. I do delve into this topic deeply in my essays. I will say that one of the reasons I started th...

No worries, and no need to mention it. I am quite used to that happening when I engage in intellectual discussions that are not in person.

I like where you are going with this... What is it about the word 'sweet' that makes it a concrete concept? Do you mean that we can measure 'sweet', b...

In the past, I have learned to not go down the nominalism road on this forum. This time, I would like to stay a while. I can either point you to my es...

I imagine that different readers of this thread will gravitate towards one of the three examples over the others, but there is something that all thre...

Have you ever seen this video? It's been around a while, but no longer rising to the top. ... It talks about some of what you are referring to. https:...

Thank you. I seem to remember our own discussions from long ago as being quite fruitful. ... Funny, how some us old-timers circle back around and land...

Yes. ... This model of a duck is not so much a duck as it is a human-reflected duck(?). When we filter anything through human perception, we attach ch...

As for phenomenology, Derrida, Merleau-Ponty, etc, ... We could easily fill up another thread on what I have to say about that. :wink: Here's a link t...

Can you tell me what written work of his you are referring to? As for Peirce's 'representamen' and triadic model, we need to recognize that he is poin...

Here are a few articles you might enjoy reading.... https://academic.oup.com/nc/article/2020/1/niaa010/5856030 https://scitechdaily.com/mit-scientists...

And in these examples, how would you reach those value judgements? How would you come to your conclusions?

But is 'hardness' a static, intrinsic property of a diamond?

One more example, and then we'll just stick with these three and go from there. ... The sun is bright. ... The sun has brightness. Is brightness a sta...

Let's add another example ... Is hardness a static, intrinsic property of a diamond? ... Does a diamond possess hardness?

No doubt. ... Thank you for bringing this up. ... I do want to point out again that to understand Peirce is to understand that he tries to walk the re...

Ah, yes. Great quote. :sparkle:

If you didn't already gather this from my previous post, I think of myself as an expressed vehicle of communication by the whole. If all is 'Mind', an...

You and many other people. He is notoriously difficult to understand (and especially for a nominalistic culture!), and it doesn't help that for so lon...

When it comes to Bakhtin, it helps to focus on dialogue as a dynamic, reciprocally recursive, action, and as a sort of embodied medium that brings in ...

No doubt that life is full of constraints, and we each deal with different ones from where and when we stand. ... It can be frustrating at times, but ...

Perhaps this might be helpful for some in this thread. ..... Go to https://projector.tensorflow.org/ and you will see an artificial intelligence LLM n...

I want to expand on this a bit. .... As I mentioned in another thread, in order to get a more encompassing picture of Peirce's writings, it's importan...

I agree. I admit that I used the word 'uncomfortable' when that is not what Peirce actually said in the essay. I was not writing that comment for acad...

Speaking of "dogmatic slumbers", are you familiar with Charles Sanders Peirce's essay titled 'The Fixation of Belief'? ... I mentioned in another post...

Have you read Mikhail Bahktin's 'Toward a Philosophy of the Act'? ... I think that it surveys much of what you are pondering. ... Here is an excerpt f...

Perhaps the striving of all 'being' is to process what living allows it to process and reach for becoming whatever it can become. There is so much to ...

Exactly. ... This is what Peirce was trying to explain to Dewey when Dewey was attending Peirce's lectures. Peirce confronted Dewey about his not unde...

I haven't taken the time to read every post in this thread (I hope to!), but I do want to point out that to understand Peirce we must take into accoun...

When a person cannot see the actual and current cohesiveness of relations that bind existence and reality, and the inherent momentum that generates co...

I am done with all of my holiday juggling and now back to a more 'typical' work routine. I should have a little more time to delve into some of this, ...

Clearly, you have no awareness of semiosis. The blindness caused by the nominalism thought virus is prolific and ingrained in many people. I no longer...

And this does not exist in the external world? ... Consider that the next time you try to maneuver city traffic without traffic lights and signs.

From an online vocabulary dictionary.... exist Share /?g?z?st/ /?g?z?st/ IPA guide Other forms: existing; existed; exists { The verb exist means to li...

My usage of the word 'narrative': A causality of semiosis that results in a representamen of a situation or process, and in such a way as to reflect o...

I hope no one minds if I interject something here. Perhaps it might be useful? If not, just ignore me and proceed. :) Secondness also takes place in t...

Then, 'framework' it is. :wink: I cannot stay on here at the moment, but I look forward to an ongoing dialogue. Thank you.