Re: “On the Paradigm of Experience Appro priate for Semiotic”
Jon Awbrey <[email protected]>
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* 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 One of the things we do in empirical science is collect data. Data is often collected in the form of relational data bases. Relational data bases, at their most basic level, are simply finite sets of "relation elements" or "elementary relations", which are finite sequences, "k-tuples", of a given data type. It is usual to visualize such a data base as arranged in the form of a rectangular table with columns and rows, with each row recording one relation element (k-tuple) and each column headed by a name for the type of datum that goes in the j-th place of the k-tuple. If we ask ourselves: What is the paradigm or pattern of data appropriate for semiotic? -- the answer is a data table with three columns, headed "Object", "Sign", "Interpretant". (The order of the columns does not matter so long as we know what it is.) Regards, Jon CC: Arisbe, CG, Inquiry, Peirce List -- facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/JonnyCache inquiry list: http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/ mwb: http://www.mywikibiz.com/Directory:Jon_Awbrey knol profile: http://knol.google.com/k/Jon-Awbrey# oeiswiki: http://www.oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey polmic: www.policymic.com/profiles/1110/Jon-Awbrey