[Inquiry] Re: Sign Relations -- Commentary

[Jon Awbrey]

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SR.  Commentary Note 37

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Arisbe List, Inquiry List,

| We return to the question of what sort of formal or informational process
| makes a circumstance different from what it might have been otherwise, in
| abstraction from or analogy to the causal or material process in Peirce's
| Rain-Stone example.

I think that we have now attained a suitable outlook from which to review
the salient features of the just now passing geometric topography, and to
recapitulate the lessons that we ought to extract from our side-trip into
extremely partial and special 2-adic relations of geometric determination.

Within the context of our particular sample of geometry, which involves
a relation of sampling that is itself a form of attention, bias, choice,
constraint, determination, election, information, partiality, selection,
or representation -- as far as information goes it's all the same stuff --
we may find a number of further relations of determination, whereby the
showcasing of particular subsets among the available geometric elements
acts to showcase further subsets among the available geometric elements.
And though we may stroll through a gallery of showcases in a particular
order on a particular show occasion, there is nothing that qualifies as
a causal, material, or physical order in this promenade sequence, as we
could just as easily have conducted our peripatetics in many other ways.

Jon Awbrey

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