[Inquiry] Re: Questions Involving Pure Symbols -- Discussion

[Jon Awbrey]

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QUIPS.  Discussion Note 29

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AB = Auke van Breemen
JA = Jon Awbrey

Re: QUIPS-DIS 28.  http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-May/002694.html
In: QUIPS-DIS.     http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-May/thread.html#2602

AB: By reading your mails I got the strong impression
    that while writing you have plenty of time left to
    play with form and meaning in an astounding variety
    of ways.  That is a great asset which gives me while
    reading your mails enjoyment on a regular basis.  But
    sometimes it comes in the way of understanding what is
    said concerning the topic under discussion.  This is
    one of those occasions that I have difficulties in
    deciding how your words are ment to relate to mine. 

AB: You can be criticizing my interpretation of
    the sign concept in your opinion, see your:

JA: I peirce-istently emphasize the fact that signhood
    is a relational role and not an essential category

AB: Which suggests a corrective move.  Although,
    I do not see anything in what I wrote that
    could be the occasion for such a move.

AB: You can also be trying to tell me that you all along did
    take symbol as meaning a symbolical relation. Although,
    my reference to your putting formal before existence
    comes in my way of that interpretation.

AB: So, probably you aim at something different.
    Is it possible to sharpen the focus for me?

Auke,

Sorry to give the wrong impression.
My intention was reinforcement not
remonstration.  I hadn't addressed
the issue of formal existence, but
there I just mean that a described
form of circumstance, whether it's
a thing, situation, state of being,
state of affairs, "possible world",
..., is hypothetically possible in
the sense that it is not logically
inconsistent with what is presumed
otherwise to be the case.  Sort of.

Jon Awbrey

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