Re: Program Semantics -- Lexica, Logics, Ontologies, Semiotica, Syn-Taxonomies

At 08:24 AM 4/2/02 -0500, Jon Awbrey wrote:
>
>I believe that some aspects of situation theory will be covered by the IFF
approach,
>about which I'm sure you will hear more anon among the SUO e-missals.  

I'll look forward to learning more about the IFF approach.

>As far as the
>general recognition of situated attitudes in logic and semiotic goes, C.S.
Peirce,
>of course, got there long ago.  And although the S&A floks have made some
valiant
>attempts to break out of the pre-veiling Fregean mold, they might have
purchased
>their fungicide wholesale if only they had made slightly more thorough
inquiries
>at Peirce's Emporium.

I have enormous respect for Peirce, and agree that his relational
orientation would have provided a firm foundation for the work subsequently
done in situation theory.  Nonetheless, identifying the situation as a
first-class seems to me to have been an important contribution to the
modeling of dynamic social processes.
>
. . .
>Welcome to the program of disruption already in progress ...
>
Thanks for your comments.

David

Received on Tuesday, 2 April 2002 16:44:15 UTC