"A" is a little house
TOKEN TAUTOLOGIES
Pseudo-necessary implications of Sign-use.
The fact that the first letter of the English alphabet is drawn in large case printing by a stick-picture drawing of an "A-frame" house does not entitle the inference: "When Jones uses a word beginning with the first letter of the English alphabet, he associates what the word stands for with a house."
This might, in fact, be true, but it cannot follow as a valid inference because the association is purely "through the token" -- how the word appears in print. Other languages use different alphabets, and different sign-tokens for the first member of standard serial arrangements. Letters for the SOUND "A" are commonly counted as first in Greek and Hebrew script: alpha, aleph, ... . But the shapes are widely distinct and look nothing like houses.
These considerations illustrate two things: 1. adventitious subjective content can be 'coded' into the tokens of signs used in communication, for example, by shaping the name attached to an audible to look like something else seen; and 2. It would not be unusual, but nevertheless mistaken, to assume that what is (accidentally) associated with the token, is part of what is intended in the text Whereas, regarding the second point, what is intended in the text belongs to a different order of conscious content from that which the token presents. The inference from the token as if what was adventitously associated with it belonged to what it (is used to) mean(s) (refer to, intend) can be called "token tautology." It is a cheap and easy way to produce "virtual truth": a form of signs that become "true", when filled with the secondary act of your making them (connected). Or, "predicating on your predications" ("She called him 'bear'? - then he's a bear. She knows what to call things (not everybody does).") Heading off the calamatous result of systematic delusion distributed through a group (of "we"-users) by predicating on predicates on ...tracing to virtual truth constructions in private tokenspaces a primitive individuals. At this point, the entire mental life of conscious human beings will have become dumped into electronically sustained space, where conflict, tension and "issues" will emerge at this new interface with its Unconscious (in the gap between virtual and real). (Kubrick's 2001 projects this confrontation)
Russell's Theory of Logical Types and
The Problem of the One and the Many in philosophy
A new theory of Transcendental Unity of Apperception (Kant) is implied by the critique of sign-use for cognitive consciousness. A primitive set of tokens is required, with rules of use specifying well-formed complexes into text, as in the logical syntax of language (interpreted into used grammatical forms, such as subject and predicate sentences).
tbc
Pseudo-necessary implications of Sign-use.
The fact that the first letter of the English alphabet is drawn in large case printing by a stick-picture drawing of an "A-frame" house does not entitle the inference: "When Jones uses a word beginning with the first letter of the English alphabet, he associates what the word stands for with a house."
This might, in fact, be true, but it cannot follow as a valid inference because the association is purely "through the token" -- how the word appears in print. Other languages use different alphabets, and different sign-tokens for the first member of standard serial arrangements. Letters for the SOUND "A" are commonly counted as first in Greek and Hebrew script: alpha, aleph, ... . But the shapes are widely distinct and look nothing like houses.
These considerations illustrate two things: 1. adventitious subjective content can be 'coded' into the tokens of signs used in communication, for example, by shaping the name attached to an audible to look like something else seen; and 2. It would not be unusual, but nevertheless mistaken, to assume that what is (accidentally) associated with the token, is part of what is intended in the text Whereas, regarding the second point, what is intended in the text belongs to a different order of conscious content from that which the token presents. The inference from the token as if what was adventitously associated with it belonged to what it (is used to) mean(s) (refer to, intend) can be called "token tautology." It is a cheap and easy way to produce "virtual truth": a form of signs that become "true", when filled with the secondary act of your making them (connected). Or, "predicating on your predications" ("She called him 'bear'? - then he's a bear. She knows what to call things (not everybody does).") Heading off the calamatous result of systematic delusion distributed through a group (of "we"-users) by predicating on predicates on ...tracing to virtual truth constructions in private tokenspaces a primitive individuals. At this point, the entire mental life of conscious human beings will have become dumped into electronically sustained space, where conflict, tension and "issues" will emerge at this new interface with its Unconscious (in the gap between virtual and real). (Kubrick's 2001 projects this confrontation)
Russell's Theory of Logical Types and
The Problem of the One and the Many in philosophy
A new theory of Transcendental Unity of Apperception (Kant) is implied by the critique of sign-use for cognitive consciousness. A primitive set of tokens is required, with rules of use specifying well-formed complexes into text, as in the logical syntax of language (interpreted into used grammatical forms, such as subject and predicate sentences).
tbc
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