Re: SUO: Ode On A Clay Vase
Jon,
I agree:
>... the matter,
>as you name it, namely, "clay", being
>just as much an arti-fact of language
>as a formal potential, to wit, "vase",
Certainly. These are signs used to refer to different
aspects of the underlying processes.
>since, really, God told me, there is
>really nought but quarks and such lot
>of pottage cheese that the cosmos be
>made on, and so all your chadding as
>to "clay" and "vase" is really just
>your evasive maneuvers to exercise
>your right to interpret it however
>you wish, for they are interpretive
>categories, not essential invariants.
Yes. It's signs all the way down to bedrock, so to speak,
and that bedrock is just process. That's the point I intend
to elaborate in my forthcoming paper "Processes and Signs".
John