ONT Re: Inquiry Into Inquiry

[Jon Awbrey <jawbrey@oakland.edu>]

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Sam Hunting wrote (SH):
Jon Awbrey wrote (JA):

JA: Here is one quick link on the "Definition Of A Sign":

    http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/msg02034.html

SH: A question from the peanut gallery:

    What is a relational property?

    Thanks!  (No need for one of your wonderful punning extended essays -- KISS.)

SH, quoting LW:

  | "To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life."
  |  Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

A relational property is just a property that something has
by virtue of being in a relation at the moment in question.
In effect, this is really just another way of saying that
something is related to something in the specified way.

For example, "mi" is a name I call myself, that is to say,
a sign that reminds me of me, at the moment when somebody
while singing a song has led me to interpret "mi" as "me".
In this moment is actualized the sign relational 3-tuple
<me, "mi", "me"> of the form <object, sign, interpretant>.

Jon Awbrey

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Incidental Musement:

http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/2001/playbill/soundofmusic.html

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