Re: “On the Paradigm of Experience Appro priate for Semiotic”

* Comments on the Peirce List slow reading of Joseph Ransdell,
   "On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic",
   http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/aboutcsp/ransdell/paradigm.htm

* Reply to questions from Jerry Chandler:

The analogy that connects the arity of relations and relative terms with
the valence of chemical atoms is one that Peirce exploited to good effect
in his logical graphs, entitative and existential, but all good analogies
must come to their breaking points sooner or later, frequently cracking on
both sides of the equation, and I can remember that valence bond theory was
already giving way to molecular orbital theory way back when I was in school.

In the section where I quoted Peirce's NEM 4 definition of the sign relation,
I saw a need to flesh out his text with the necessary glosses on the meanings
of the other terms he invoked, especially the notions of "correspondence" and
and "determination" that he used elsewhere and that it would take to complete
the sense of what he wrote.

Cf. http://mywikibiz.com/Sign_relation#Definition

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