Peirce, Signs, and Meaning

Μerrell, Floyd

doi:10.3138/9781442678330

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“…Alston, 1967;Nadine, 1983;Merrell, 1991;1992;1997;Keefe and Smith, 1997;Williamson, 1998, and references within these). Vagueness can carry contradictory courses simultaneously, and no middle is excluded therein.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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The origin and development of time

Matsuno

Salthe

2002

International Journal of General Systems

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This paper is in the internalist tradition, in which a system is modeled as if the modeler were inside of it or part of it, as in, e.g. cosmology, or in the autopoiesis discourse of Maturana and Varela. Internally, no distinction can be made between exogenous and endogenous sources of variety and change. We acknowledge, however, that since language use is itself an externalizing practice, we will always have to struggle to remain inside as we continue to theorize. We will use concepts from Peirce, in particular, his general metaphysical categories, Firstness, Secondness and Thirdness, as well as the semiotic concepts of meaning, reference and representation. We will also use the complex causal model of Aristotle (material/formal, efficient/final causes). Our most important tool, however, will be the classification of tenses, as in past/present perfect/present/present progressive/future.We will attempt to show a logically plausible sequence in a local material system from a primordial present tense of pure duration (primal Firstness) perturbed by fluctuations (material causality) which stimulate the linked processes of semantic concretization and syntactic integration (delivering Seconds), from which emerge, respectively, the present progressive and present perfect tenses, which together initiate measurement directed at detecting and realigning internal inconsistencies with respect to a forming internal record (imposing formal causality), giving rise to habits and valuation (Thirdnesses). The finalistic tendency toward equilibration is never finished, resulting in an internal record. As this record accumulates, the resulting growth of the system generates a past tense, within which are formed generalized facts and universal maps (more Secondness) which, by reflection, generate a particular relevant Firstness for the maturing system. Efficient causality emerges internally from contingent collisions of events on parallel tracks, and arises externally from events at other locales at various scales. These prod a system forward in its finalistic tendencies to attain internal consistency. Once the past tense has emerged from the present perfect, valuation based in measurement projects a future tense by way of anticipation (formulated in the past progressive), wherein are projected external final causes (working in the future progressive tense).

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 93%

The origin and development of time

Matsuno

Salthe

2002

International Journal of General Systems

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“…According to Colapietro (1989), for instance, Peirce believed that "the world of our experience is always already constituted as a realm of signs," meaning that "we are in continuous dialogue with the natural world as well as with other humans" (p. 21). Merrell (1998) added that "dialogue is not merely between the 'I,' the 'inner' other of the 'I,' and the others of the community, but also between the 'I' and the 'real' physical-world other, which is the most unrelenting opponent imaginable" (p. 64). In the example of Launcelot, that is to say, we see him responding to a dialogic encounter with his own emaciated self-image that he interprets through signs to represent the effects of his masters injustice; what follows is then an internal dialogue with what Peirce called his "critical self that one is trying to persuade" in an effort to come to some ethical decision about what to do about his state of affairs (EP 2: 338).…”

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“I Says to Myself, Says I”: Charles Sanders Peirce on the Components of Dialogue

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Bodie

2016

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Peirce famously defined the process of thinking as what a person is "'saying to himself,' that is, is saying to that other self that is just coming into life in the flow of time." For Peirce, this meant the essence of thinking is dialogue. This essay proposes a conception of dialogue grounded in Peirce's normative ideal of inquiry that challenges contemporary thinking about dialogue yet supports the same moral and ethical aims. Using a scene from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice that Peirce used as an exemplar of dialogue, we propose a conception that begins in doubt and passes through phases of reasoning and ethical and esthetic judgment before coming to a resolution which expands horizons of thought, emotion, and action.

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“…In 1923, philosophers Russell (1923 in a paper on vagueness suggested that language is invariably vague and that vagueness is a matter of degree. More recently, the logic of vagueness became the focus of studies of other such by Brock (1979), Nadin (1982Nadin ( , 1983, Engel-Tiercelin (1992), and Merrell (1995Merrell ( , 1996Merrell ( , 1997Merrell ( , 1998.…”

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Evolution of fuzzy logic: from intelligent systems and computation to human mind

Nikravesh

2007

Soft Comput

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Inspired by human's remarkable capability to perform a wide variety of physical and mental tasks without any measurements and computations and dissatisfied with classical logic as a tool for modeling human reasoning in an imprecise environment, Lotfi A. Zadeh developed the theory and foundation of fuzzy logic with his 1965 paper "Fuzzy sets" (Zadeh in Inf Control 8:378-53, 1965) and extended his work with his 2005 paper "Toward a generalized theory of uncertainty (GTU)-an outline" (Zadeh in Inf Control, 2005). Fuzzy logic has at least two main sources over the past century. The first of these sources was initiated by Peirce in the form what he called a logic of vagueness in 1900s, and the second source is Lotfi's A. Zadeh work, fuzzy sets and fuzzy Logic in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Peirce, Signs, and Meaning

Cited by 111 publications

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The origin and development of time

The origin and development of time

“I Says to Myself, Says I”: Charles Sanders Peirce on the Components of Dialogue

Evolution of fuzzy logic: from intelligent systems and computation to human mind

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