[Inquiry] Re: Extension x Comprehension = Information

[Jon Awbrey]

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ECI.  Incidental Note 1

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I've arrived, yet again, at a problem that has occupied my attention,
every now and then, since my very first readings of Peirce, and that
is the question of whether and, if so, to what extent, a sign can be
property of an object.  The answer appears to depend on the strength
of the senses in which we take the circle of thoughts like "to have",
"to own", "to possess", or the substantives "possession", "property",
and so on.  In the weaker senses of the underlying schematism, signs
can easily, all too easily be properties of objects, though one will
likely hear the qualifications "accidental", "relative", "secondary",
or words to that effect, quickly dispensed as a way to hedge the bet.
To specify a stronger sense of eigen-valid ownership, emphatic terms
like "categorical", "consensual", "genuine", "natural", "objective",
"real", "universal", and a host of others may be recruited to drive
home the point.

But the question behind the question is:
What qualifies anything to be objective?

Here are just a few of my own thoughts on the matter.

I notice that I begin to consider calling something objective
whenever there are lots and lots of different ways of looking
at it, which is to say, if you think about it, that there are
many different signs of it that can be sensibly related among
each another, to wit, no objectivity without interoperability.

So consider this Semiotic Proof Of The Objectivity Of God:
If there really were Nine Billion Names Of God, as in the
Arthur Clarke story that I read as a child, then I would
consider that a sufficient proof of God's objectivity.
AC being British, I reckon this means 9 x 10^12 names,
but I will have to check, as it's been a while since
I last read the story.

Jon Awbrey

Incidental Musements:

http://math.cofc.edu/faculty/kasman/MATHFICT/mf82.html
http://www.lsi.usp.br/~rbianchi/clarke/ACC.Biography.html

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