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Got that sign usage. thanks tony mike On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Tony Whitson <twhitson@udel.edu> wrote: > Mike, from a Peircean POV, any element of Thirdness is (as such) an element > of ideality. > > A response in the Stimulus-Response model might seem unmediated, in the > im-mediate event. From a Peircean POV,a Pavlovian response to a stimulus is > a response to that stimulum AS a sign of (for example) food. Or -- the > salivation is a response to food through the mediation of the bell (or > whatever) as a sign of food. (This way of thinking is a source for the > reflex-arch paper by Peirce's famous student, Dewey.) > > From a Peircean POV, the phototropic response of a plant to a light source > is likewise a sign-mediated response, with the plant responding TO THE > AVAILABLE LIGHT-ENERGY through the mediation of the sensed light-location as > a sign of the energy. This is possible only through the regularity (or > ideality) of the congruence of light source location and energy > availability. > > On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, mike cole wrote: > > Not sure what to make of the >> phrase "there is ideality in any generalized sign (as in habituated >> responses) since there are habituated responses which are not sign >> mediated. >> mike >> (ex rat psychologist) >> > _______________________________________________ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca