[Arisbe] Re: Inquiry Into Inquiry
Jon Awbrey
arisbe@stderr.org
Tue, 31 Jul 2001 21:33:46 -0400
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Sam Hunting wrote (SH):
Jon Awbrey wrote (JA):
JA: Here is one quick link on the "Definition Of A Sign":
http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/msg02034.html
SH: A question from the peanut gallery:
What is a relational property?
Thanks! (No need for one of your wonderful punning extended essays -- KISS.)
SH, quoting LW:
| "To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life."
| Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
A relational property is just a property that something has
by virtue of being in a relation at the moment in question.
In effect, this is really just another way of saying that
something is related to something in the specified way.
For example, "mi" is a name I call myself, that is to say,
a sign that reminds me of me, at the moment when somebody
while singing a song has led me to interpret "mi" as "me".
In this moment is actualized the sign relational 3-tuple
<me, "mi", "me"> of the form <object, sign, interpretant>.
Jon Awbrey
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Incidental Musement:
http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/2001/playbill/soundofmusic.html
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