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

[Jon Awbrey <jawbrey@oakland.edu>]

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DM = Douglas McDavid
JA = Jon Awbrey

JA: http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/msg04317.html

DM: 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?

JA: 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:

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

Doug,

One other thing to think about -- what I'm really trying to get at here is the
harder facet of abductive sign-formation, more the sign's first creation than
its later use in the acts of noticing, or re-cognizing, sending, receiving --
how the sign or concept orders the chaos of ineffable impressions.

Jon

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