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ONT Re: What Is Information That A Sign May Bear It?




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Douglas McDavid wrote:
> 
> Jon --
> 
> This is a nice exposition of the foundational situation and
> questions that motivate your ongoing project of inquiry into
> inquiry.  I wonder if part of your project will ever come to
> a consideration of one (as in " ... one finds oneself ... ")
> as a sign emitter, as well as a sign receptor?
> 
> Doug McDavid
> 
> IBM Global Services
> Member, IBM Academy of Technology
> mcdavid@us.ibm.com
> 
> "Imagine all the people ... living life in peace."

Doug,

There's a couple of relatively contemporary connections,
highlighting the communicative action aspect of things --
"action oriented toward reaching understanding" (AOTRU) --
that I think you might find of interest:

| Jurgen Habermas,
|'Postmetaphysical Thinking:  Philosophical Essays',
| W.M. Hohengarten (trans.), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1992.
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| esp. Chapt. 4, "Toward a Critique of the Theory of Meaning",
| and  Chapt. 5, "Peirce and Communication".

Cheers,

Jon

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