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

Peircers,

I would like to return to an earlier point in the discussion
and continue with the thoughts that I had in mind at the time.

JA: One of the things we do in empirical science is collect data.

JA: 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.

JA: 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.)

My mind is drawn back to the decade of the 1980s, when at long last
I completed a Master's degree in Mathematics, concentrating as much
as the department would let me on the eminently fascinating and "fun"
subjects of combinatorics, graph theory, and group theory, and I found
my mind wandering, as it had a habit of doing, back to old interests in
psychology, computation, and artificial intelligence. I spent that decade
cycling through that array of interests at a number of universities in the
Midwest, working a while at the Institute for Social Research in Ann Arbor,
and spending my spare time developing a computer program that was designed
to integrate basic functions of learning and reasoning, that is, "empirical"
and "rational" faculties, over a core set of algorithms and data structures.

To be continued ...

Jon

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