COLGR49: Chapter 1 Summary - Thoughts

calbert at hslboxmaster.com calbert at hslboxmaster.com
Tue Jul 31 20:27:44 CDT 2001


> I'm sorry I didn't save the e-mail, but someone noted how the
> number 3 often followed mention of Pierce, and the number 2
> often followed mention of "Mucho" Ma[a]s (much more *what*?).
> Oedipus had 2 feet, but in a way he had 3 because he had to
> walk with a stick due to his deformed feet, which is also related to
> the riddle of the Sphinx.  I'm not sure where all this leads; a dead
> end, most likely!
> 
> So do I run for cover now?

Not broddy rikery.......

The semiotic theory of Charles Peirce posits a "three-way view of 
the semiotic relationship, in which a "sign" mediates between and 
"object" and "interpretant", the interpreting effect that the sign 
produces upon , for example, a human mind."

J.L. Auspitz The Wasp Leaves the Bottle


now perhaps someone schooled in this jive can take it from here...


love,
cfa



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