[Inquiry] Re: Sign Relations -- Commentary

[Jon Awbrey]

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SR.  Commentary Note 34

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After reflecting on that last picture of geometric determination for a few
moments, some readers will no doubt be asking:  What happened to the part
about determination meaning "to make a circumstance different from what
it might have been otherwise"?  What circumstances?  What difference?

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Because Peirce illustrated the abstract concept of determination with
the richly concrete example of the Weather-Stone system, and because
the meaning of the word "concrete" is that an example has a richer
collection of properties than the minimal wealth needed to serve
as an example of the concept in question, part of what it means
to comprehend the import of the example is to recognize which
properties are being illustrated and which are merely excess
ornamentation.  So one of the questions we need to ask is:
What sort of formal or informational process is analogous
to the causal or material process that is represented in
the illustration of determination?  Answering this will
help us to grasp the kind of determination that we are
meant to abstract from the example of determination.

Well, let's all mull this question over overnight and
I will let you know what I come up with with the dawn.

Jon Awbrey

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