[Inquiry] Re: Examples Of Inquiry -- Discussion

[Jon Awbrey]

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EOI.  Discussion Note 7

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JA = Jon Awbrey
TG = Tom Gollier

TG: I am indeed being led, or misled as the case may be, into 
    "thinking that AO [or a diagram] is involved in every sign 
    process".  But first, Peirce says: "All necessary reasoning 
    without exception is diagrammatic" [CP 5.162]. And, more
    broadly this would appear to apply to any kind of deductive
    reasoning or inferences, including the inference of "rain"
    in this example.  So it does seem to be a properly logical
    orientation for the analysis of this particular example.

The way I read them, the passages at CP 2.227-228 and NEM 4 pp. 20-21
are variations on the very same theme, to exaplain the relationship of
logic to semiotic, the differentia being that logic is formal semiotic,
by which Peirce means quasi-necessary or normative.  This leaves room
for a portion of semiotic to be contingent, empirical, or descriptive.
Also, the inference from coolness to rain is abductive not deductive.

TG: But if we're going to talk about the sign process in general, rather
    than just this example, it does seem to me that the "sign", as Peirce
    construes it, occupies that transitive ground of a middle term in what
    can be broadly considered "deductions".  And if that's correct, then
    what Peirce has to say about diagrams and necessary or mathematical
    reasoning would give us an internal view of the actual mechanics
    within a sign by which it applies to objects on the one side and
    produces interpretants on the other.

TG: It's just an hypothesis though, so am I being "misled" by it?

Too close to the whiching hour -- will have to save the rest for tomorrow.

Jon Awbrey

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