ONT Re: Program Semantics -- Lexica, Logics, Ontologies, Semiotica, Syn-Taxonomies
- To: Jon Awbrey <jawbrey@oakland.edu>
- Subject: ONT Re: Program Semantics -- Lexica, Logics, Ontologies, Semiotica, Syn-Taxonomies
- From: David Sallach <sallach@uchicago.edu>
- Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 14:47:36 -0600
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At 08:24 AM 4/2/02 -0500, Jon Awbrey wrote:
>
>I believe that some aspects of situation theory will be covered by the IFF
approach,
>about which I'm sure you will hear more anon among the SUO e-missals.
I'll look forward to learning more about the IFF approach.
>As far as the
>general recognition of situated attitudes in logic and semiotic goes, C.S.
Peirce,
>of course, got there long ago. And although the S&A floks have made some
valiant
>attempts to break out of the pre-veiling Fregean mold, they might have
purchased
>their fungicide wholesale if only they had made slightly more thorough
inquiries
>at Peirce's Emporium.
I have enormous respect for Peirce, and agree that his relational
orientation would have provided a firm foundation for the work subsequently
done in situation theory. Nonetheless, identifying the situation as a
first-class seems to me to have been an important contribution to the
modeling of dynamic social processes.
>
. . .
>Welcome to the program of disruption already in progress ...
>
Thanks for your comments.
David