SUO: Re: Semiotics Formalization
Robert Marty wrote:
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> You very understoodt : my book is the best essay
> on the thermodynamics of the sign and Peirce is
> the Carnot of the semiotics !
> Robert Marty
> http://come.to/robert.marty
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> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : Jon Awbrey [mailto:jawbrey@oakland.edu]
> > Envoyé : dimanche 17 décembre 2000 08:22
> > À : Stand Up Ontology
> > Objet : SUO: Re: Semiotics Formalization
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> > | Charles Sanders Peirce
> > | is "the deepest investigator
> > | of the gasoline of the signs" ...
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> > Preface to Robert Marty's "L'Algebre des Signes",
> > The Wholly Unauthorized "Babel Fish" Translation.
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> > "His Gassy Essence"?
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> > Perhaps Babel Fish knows better than I think.
> >
> > But what's really telling is that it
> > Took me a whole day to think of that --
> > Just two more days until evaporation --
> >
> > See Yall When The Yule Is Ashen --
> > In The Bona Fide New Millennium --
> >
> > Jon Awbrey
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Robert,
Your remarks bring to mind this remembrance of perished thoughts,
that I took occasion to utter and to publish in the Peirce Forum,
synchronoplastic-infundibularly just a-year-less-a-day ago today:
> Subject: Re: Moving Pictures
> Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 15:46:33 -0500
> From: Jon Awbrey <jawbrey@oakland.edu>
> To: peirce-l@ttacs6.ttu.edu
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> | Matter is potentiality (dynamis), while form is
> | realization or actuality (entelecheia), and the
> | word actuality is used in two senses, illustrated
> | by the possession of knowledge (episteme) and the
> | exercise of it (theorein).
> |
> | So the soul (psyche) must be substance (ousia)
> | in the sense of being the form (eidos) of a
> | natural body (soma), which potentially (dynamei)
> | has life (zoe). And substance in this sense is
> | actuality (entelecheia).
> |
> | Aristotle, "Peri Psyche", 2.1.
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> | The passage from power to entelechy takes place
> | by means of change (kinesis). This is the
> | imperfect energy, the perfected energy
> | is the entelechy.
> |
> | CSP, CE 5, 404.
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> | I shall, therefore, venture to call Sum (m.v^2)/2
> | the kinetic act or kinetic energy and the negative
> | of the potential, the kinetic power or kinetic
> | potency. For the sum of the two I can think of
> | no better term than 'motivity' or 'kinesis'.
> |
> | CSP, CE 5, 275n.
>
> | Tho' obscur'd, this is the form of the
> | Angelic land.
> |
> | William Blake, "America",
> | Re-Cited as the Epigraph,
> | In Protocol to the American Edition of:
> | George Spencer Brown, 'Laws of Form', 1972.
>
> | In arriving at proofs, I have often been struck
> | by the apparent alignment of mathematics with
> | psycho-analytic theory. In each discipline
> | we attempt to find out, by a mixture of
> | contemplation, symbolic representation,
> | communion, and communication, what
> | it is we already know.
> |
> | GSB, LOF, xix.
>
> | One of the motives prompting the furtherance of
> | the present work was the hope of bringing together
> | the investigations of the inner structure of our
> | knowledge of the universe, as expressed in the
> | mathematical sciences, and the investigations of
> | its outer structure, as expressed in the physical
> | sciences. Here the work of Einstein, Schrodinger,
> | and others seems to have led to the realization of
> | an ultimate boundary of physical knowledge in the
> | form of the media through which we perceive it.
> |
> | GSB, LOF, xxi.
>
> | What is encompassed, in mathematics, is a
> | transcedence from a given state of vision to a
> | new, and hitherto unapparent, vision beyond it.
> | When the present existence has ceased to make
> | sense, it can still come to sense again through
> | the realization of its form.
> |
> | GSB, LOF, xxiii.
> |
> | [ yes, it's "transcedence", not "transcendence"!!! ]
> | [ sic transit gloria mundi, the diff an "n" makes! ]
>
> | One of the most beautiful facts emerging from
> | mathematical studies is this very potent relation-
> | ship between the mathematical process and ordinary
> | language. There seems to be no mathematical idea
> | of any importance or profundity that is not
> | mirrored, with an almost uncanny accuracy, in the
> | common use of words, and this appears especially
> | true when we consider words in their original,
> | and sometimes long forgotten, senses.
> |
> | GSB, LOF, 90-91.
>
> | Thus we do not imagine the wave train emitted by
> | an excited finite echelon to be exactly like the
> | wave train emitted from an excited physical
> | particle. For one thing the wave form from an
> | echelon is square, and for another it is emitted
> | without energy. (We should need, I guess, to make
> | at least one more departure from the form before
> | arriving at a conception of energy on these lines.)
> |
> | GSB, LOF, 100.
>
> | Ladies and gentlemen, I have set this aspect
> | of exact science before you because in it the
> | affinity with the fine arts becomes most plainly
> | visible, and because here one may counter the
> | misapprehension that natural science and
> | technology are concerned solely with precise
> | observation and rational, discursive thought.
> | To be sure, this rational thinking and careful
> | measurement belong to the scientist's work, just
> | as the hammer and chisel belong to the work of the
> | sculptor. But in both cases they are merely the
> | tools and not the content of the work.
> |
> | Werner Heisenberg,
> | "The Meaning of Beauty in the Exact Sciences",
> | 'Across the Frontiers', page 182.
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I hope that you find these e-citations
n-citing of many a-musing re-flections.
Jon Awbrey
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