RE: MD Looking for the Primary Difference

From: Case (Case@iSpots.com)
Date: Mon Nov 21 2005 - 16:59:31 GMT

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    Ian said:
    I can't for the life of me remember the point of this thread, but I think
    the key difference with Scott is the idea of semantics without an
    interpretant. I have trouble with that, but I don't say the interpretant has
    to be human.

    Scott:
    If I've understood Peirce correctly (and there is always some doubt in my
    mind that I have), an interpretant is not an individual that interprets a
    sign, but the interpreting itself. And if that's not what Peirce meant, it
    is what I mean. I would insist, though, that the interpreting be a conscious
    interpreting, so it is not the case, for example, that there is any
    interpreting going on in a computer except perhaps at the electron level.

    [Case]
    Wouldn't interpretation take place at the level of Boolean logic gates?

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