[Inquiry] Categories As Equivocation Resolvers -- Commentary

[Jon Awbrey]

o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o

CAER.  Commentary Note 1

o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o

A principal use of categories in Aristotle was to resolve equivocations,
designed to prepare ambiguous signs for the application of logical laws.
An equivocation is a variation in meaning, or a manifold of sign senses,
if you will, and so Peirce's claim that three categories are sufficient
amounts to an assertion that all manifolds of meaning can be unified in
just three steps.  I can hardly think of another way to approach such a
bold assertion, if not through the provision that 3-adic sign relations
are necessary and sufficient to cover every variety of meaning in signs.

Jon Awbrey

o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o
inquiry e-lab: http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/
o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o