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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