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Mike, and Haydi The question on activity and reflectivity and its relation to temporality is the question Mike posed. I didn't want to take the focus off Haydi's further elaboration of Vasilyk so I'm posting this thought on POTENTIAL EXISTENCE and signs. from Eugene Halton [article is Pragmatic E-Pistols on Greg's post] Halton writes, Signs involve existence but are NOT reducible to existence, for their being lies in their being interpreted. in a FUTURE interpretation: in continuing semiosis. So that a SELF or a sign has a REALITY at any GIVEN MOMENT as a POTENTIAL EXISTENCE, in Peirce's terms" page 46. Potential existence, dialogically, as interpreted. This dialogical "interpretation" can be DISTINGUISHED and COME INTO EXISTENCE through "thinking" [reflecting] or through conversation [reflecting] with others [both forms can be encounters with alterity] Writing is another form of encountering dialogical alterity to express POTENTIAL existence. In other words systems and traditions and concepts [cultural historical reality] can be USED within the GIVEN MOMENT as signs within shared understanding LEADING TO POTENTIAL self-understanding ARISING within shared understanding. Mike & Haydi , this is one possibility of the temporal sequence of the lived world expressed within humanness. Larry __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca