Sign-Use
Sign-Use
This hyphenated expression is used to designate the units, or symbolic constituents, of an act of communication.
Letters, words, punctuation, and number signs (with their signs for adding, subtracting etc. operators) are the basic types of signs used in common communication. Glyphs, hand-arm gestures, electronic sketches and the like, are understood to bear a symbolic meaning, or text, which explains their special appearance, patterns, occurrence and concurrence with something other than themselves, when true. These are primary communicators.
Diagrams, charts, maps, blueprints, matrices and models require the use of primary communicators to understand what they are about, unless they are literal depictions, as in the case of photographs, anatomical drawings, etc. These are secondary communicators.
S* (abbreviation of a sign-use)
The asterisk, *, is used here for the sign to which it is attached, analogous to use of the dot, ., for ending a sentence according to the common convention. The dot signals "stop", to the string of words read; the asterisk signals "look at me", double-taking the attachee.
Example: Language*. Introduced into discourse about language, language* is psychosemiotic discourse about itself.
Red Flag of criticism goes up: Language about language leads directly to paradox and self-contradiction unless subject to restriction. This is where the 20th century began, with Russell's Theory of Logical Types introduced into the philosophy of mathematics to prevent just this from occurring.
tbc
II. Linear Logic (for textual communication)
versus Circular Logic (for token communication)
The logic of non-self-contradiction (physical sciences)
versus the logic of opposites (psychology
III. Doubles* and Consciousness
Sign-use about S* is a mirror of consciousness of consciousness (consciousness under sign-use).
(Speaking of consciousness: old conundrum. "How can there be consciousness of itself, if consciousness is the pre-condition of awareness of any and all content? -- can a hammer, the instrument used for striking whatever, strike itself?" -- Reply: wrong tool analogy. Short answer to the question is: by mirroring. Elaborating: consciousness finds itself (we find it) mirrored in its products, the articulated contents under S*.)
Consciousness is brought to itself through necessity in/through S*: that is to say, in necessary connections between sign-uses relating only to each other as such, not to any other reality (the truth of the reality in signs through signs).
IV. The Asterisk
The conventional sign constructed by crossing the vertical-horizontal lines by the X diagonals creates the figure of eight vertices, pointing in each of the NW, N, NE, E, SE,S,SW, W directions of the compass.
Its use is three-fold: 1. To function inside outside sentences, the way the dot, . functions as a period at their end. -- a contextual self-referencing index that stops the flow; 2. (in addition, while doing so) to call attention to the token to which it is attached; and 3. to indicate direction of token association.
This last is the psychosemiotic equivalent of implication in logical cognition. Use of the asterisk indicates the material to which it is attached (title, phrase, etc.) is multiply over-determined in significance, and can be 'unpacked' in the context of its occurrence into different dimensions. The centre of the intersecting lines is where the "S" is added as "the 9th" -- or, since the same process of addition can be reversed from the opposite side, it can be said also where the 8, the moveable plane of infinity "above", is brought into relation with a constant, from the extra-symbolic world "below".
Sign-Use
This hyphenated expression is used to designate the units, or symbolic constituents, of an act of communication.
Letters, words, punctuation, and number signs (with their signs for adding, subtracting etc. operators) are the basic types of signs used in common communication. Glyphs, hand-arm gestures, electronic sketches and the like, are understood to bear a symbolic meaning, or text, which explains their special appearance, patterns, occurrence and concurrence with something other than themselves, when true. These are primary communicators.
Diagrams, charts, maps, blueprints, matrices and models require the use of primary communicators to understand what they are about, unless they are literal depictions, as in the case of photographs, anatomical drawings, etc.
S* (abbreviation of a sign-use)
The asterisk, *, is used here for the sign to which it is attached, analogous to use of the dot, ., for ending a sentence according to the common convention. The dot signals "stop", to the string of words read; the asterisk signals "look at me", double-taking the attachee.
Example: Language*. Introduced into discourse about language, language* is psychosemiotic discourse about itself.
Red Fag of criticism goes up: Language about language leads directly to paradox and self-contradiction unless subject to restriction. This is where the 20th century began, with Russell's Theory of Logical Types introduced into the philosophy of mathematics to prevent just this from occurring.
II. Linear Logic (for textual communication)
versus Circular Logic (for token communication)
The logic of non-self-contradiction (physical sciences)
versus the logic of opposites (psychology)
III. Doubles* and Consciousness
Sign-use about S* is a mirror of consciousness of consciousness (consciousness under sign-use).
(old conundrum: "How can one speak of consciousness of itself, if consciousness is the pre-condition of awareness of any and all content? -- can a hammer, the instrument used for striking whatever, strike itself?" -- Reply: wrong tool analogy. Short answer to the question is: by mirroring. Elaborating: consciousness finds itself (we find it) mirrored in its products, the articulated contents under S*.)
Consciousness is brought to itself through necessity in/through S*: that is to say, in necessary connections between sign-uses relating only to each other as such, not to any other reality (the truth of the reality in signs through signs).
IV. The Asterisk
The conventional sign constructed by crossing the vertical-horizontal lines by the X diagonals creates the figure of eight vertices, pointing in each of the NW, N, NE, E, SE,S,SW, W directions of the compass.
Its use is three-fold: 1. To function inside outside sentences, the way the dot, . functions as a period at their end. -- a contextual self-referencing index that stops the flow; 2. (in addition, while doing so) to call attention to the token to which it is attached; and 3. to indicate direction of token association.
This last is the psychosemiotic equivalent of implication in logical cognition. Use of the asterisk indicates the material to which it is attached (title, phrase, etc.) is multiply over-determined in significance, and can be 'unpacked' in the context of its occurrence into different dimensions. The centre of the intersecting lines is where the "S" is added as "the 9th" -- or, since the same process of addition can be reversed from the opposite side, it can be said also where the 8, the moveable plane of infinity "above", is brought into relation with a constant, from the extra-symbolic world "below".
Sign-Use
This hyphenated expression is used to designate the units, or symbolic constituents, of an act of communication.
Letters, words, punctuation, and number signs (with their signs for adding, subtracting etc. operators) are the basic types of signs used in common communication. Glyphs, hand-arm gestures, electronic sketches and the like, are understood to bear a symbolic meaning, or text, which explains their special appearance, patterns, occurrence and concurrence with something other than themselves, when true. These are primary communicators.
Diagrams, charts, maps, blueprints, matrices and models require the use of primary communicators to understand what they are about, unless they are literal depictions, as in the case of photographs, anatomical drawings, etc.
S* (abbreviation of a sign-use)
The asterisk, *, is used here for the sign to which it is attached, analogous to use of the dot, ., for ending a sentence according to the common convention. The dot signals "stop", to the string of words read; the asterisk signals "look at me", double-taking the attachee.
Example: Language*. Introduced into discourse about language, language* is psychosemiotic discourse about itself.
Red Fag of criticism goes up: Language about language leads directly to paradox and self-contradiction unless subject to restriction. This is where the 20th century began, with Russell's Theory of Logical Types introduced into the philosophy of mathematics to prevent just this from occurring.
II. Linear Logic (for textual communication)
versus Circular Logic (for token communication)
The logic of non-self-contradiction (physical sciences)
versus the logic of opposites (psychology)
III. Doubles* and Consciousness
Sign-use about S* is a mirror of consciousness of consciousness (consciousness under sign-use).
(old conundrum: "How can one speak of consciousness of itself, if consciousness is the pre-condition of awareness of any and all content? -- can a hammer, the instrument used for striking whatever, strike itself?" -- Reply: wrong tool analogy. Short answer to the question is: by mirroring. Elaborating: consciousness finds itself (we find it) mirrored in its products, the articulated contents under S*.)
Consciousness is brought to itself through necessity in/through S*: that is to say, in necessary connections between sign-uses relating only to each other as such, not to any other reality (the truth of the reality in signs through signs).
IV. The Asterisk
The conventional sign constructed by crossing the vertical-horizontal lines by the X diagonals creates the figure of eight vertices, pointing in each of the NW, N, NE, E, SE,S,SW, W directions of the compass.
Its use is three-fold: 1. To function inside outside sentences, the way the dot, . functions as a period at their end. -- a contextual self-referencing index that stops the flow; 2. (in addition, while doing so) to call attention to the token to which it is attached; and 3. to indicate direction of token association.
This last is the psychosemiotic equivalent of implication in logical cognition. Use of the asterisk indicates the material to which it is attached (title, phrase, etc.) is multiply over-determined in significance, and can be 'unpacked' in the context of its occurrence into different dimensions. The centre of the intersecting lines is where the "S" is added as "the 9th" -- or, since the same process of addition can be reversed from the opposite side, it can be said also where the 8, the moveable plane of infinity "above", is brought into relation with a constant, from the extra-symbolic world "below".
This hyphenated expression is used to designate the units, or symbolic constituents, of an act of communication.
Letters, words, punctuation, and number signs (with their signs for adding, subtracting etc. operators) are the basic types of signs used in common communication. Glyphs, hand-arm gestures, electronic sketches and the like, are understood to bear a symbolic meaning, or text, which explains their special appearance, patterns, occurrence and concurrence with something other than themselves, when true. These are primary communicators.
Diagrams, charts, maps, blueprints, matrices and models require the use of primary communicators to understand what they are about, unless they are literal depictions, as in the case of photographs, anatomical drawings, etc. These are secondary communicators.
S* (abbreviation of a sign-use)
The asterisk, *, is used here for the sign to which it is attached, analogous to use of the dot, ., for ending a sentence according to the common convention. The dot signals "stop", to the string of words read; the asterisk signals "look at me", double-taking the attachee.
Example: Language*. Introduced into discourse about language, language* is psychosemiotic discourse about itself.
Red Flag of criticism goes up: Language about language leads directly to paradox and self-contradiction unless subject to restriction. This is where the 20th century began, with Russell's Theory of Logical Types introduced into the philosophy of mathematics to prevent just this from occurring.
tbc
II. Linear Logic (for textual communication)
versus Circular Logic (for token communication)
The logic of non-self-contradiction (physical sciences)
versus the logic of opposites (psychology
III. Doubles* and Consciousness
Sign-use about S* is a mirror of consciousness of consciousness (consciousness under sign-use).
(Speaking of consciousness: old conundrum. "How can there be consciousness of itself, if consciousness is the pre-condition of awareness of any and all content? -- can a hammer, the instrument used for striking whatever, strike itself?" -- Reply: wrong tool analogy. Short answer to the question is: by mirroring. Elaborating: consciousness finds itself (we find it) mirrored in its products, the articulated contents under S*.)
Consciousness is brought to itself through necessity in/through S*: that is to say, in necessary connections between sign-uses relating only to each other as such, not to any other reality (the truth of the reality in signs through signs).
IV. The Asterisk
The conventional sign constructed by crossing the vertical-horizontal lines by the X diagonals creates the figure of eight vertices, pointing in each of the NW, N, NE, E, SE,S,SW, W directions of the compass.
Its use is three-fold: 1. To function inside outside sentences, the way the dot, . functions as a period at their end. -- a contextual self-referencing index that stops the flow; 2. (in addition, while doing so) to call attention to the token to which it is attached; and 3. to indicate direction of token association.
This last is the psychosemiotic equivalent of implication in logical cognition. Use of the asterisk indicates the material to which it is attached (title, phrase, etc.) is multiply over-determined in significance, and can be 'unpacked' in the context of its occurrence into different dimensions. The centre of the intersecting lines is where the "S" is added as "the 9th" -- or, since the same process of addition can be reversed from the opposite side, it can be said also where the 8, the moveable plane of infinity "above", is brought into relation with a constant, from the extra-symbolic world "below".
Sign-Use
This hyphenated expression is used to designate the units, or symbolic constituents, of an act of communication.
Letters, words, punctuation, and number signs (with their signs for adding, subtracting etc. operators) are the basic types of signs used in common communication. Glyphs, hand-arm gestures, electronic sketches and the like, are understood to bear a symbolic meaning, or text, which explains their special appearance, patterns, occurrence and concurrence with something other than themselves, when true. These are primary communicators.
Diagrams, charts, maps, blueprints, matrices and models require the use of primary communicators to understand what they are about, unless they are literal depictions, as in the case of photographs, anatomical drawings, etc.
S* (abbreviation of a sign-use)
The asterisk, *, is used here for the sign to which it is attached, analogous to use of the dot, ., for ending a sentence according to the common convention. The dot signals "stop", to the string of words read; the asterisk signals "look at me", double-taking the attachee.
Example: Language*. Introduced into discourse about language, language* is psychosemiotic discourse about itself.
Red Fag of criticism goes up: Language about language leads directly to paradox and self-contradiction unless subject to restriction. This is where the 20th century began, with Russell's Theory of Logical Types introduced into the philosophy of mathematics to prevent just this from occurring.
II. Linear Logic (for textual communication)
versus Circular Logic (for token communication)
The logic of non-self-contradiction (physical sciences)
versus the logic of opposites (psychology)
III. Doubles* and Consciousness
Sign-use about S* is a mirror of consciousness of consciousness (consciousness under sign-use).
(old conundrum: "How can one speak of consciousness of itself, if consciousness is the pre-condition of awareness of any and all content? -- can a hammer, the instrument used for striking whatever, strike itself?" -- Reply: wrong tool analogy. Short answer to the question is: by mirroring. Elaborating: consciousness finds itself (we find it) mirrored in its products, the articulated contents under S*.)
Consciousness is brought to itself through necessity in/through S*: that is to say, in necessary connections between sign-uses relating only to each other as such, not to any other reality (the truth of the reality in signs through signs).
IV. The Asterisk
The conventional sign constructed by crossing the vertical-horizontal lines by the X diagonals creates the figure of eight vertices, pointing in each of the NW, N, NE, E, SE,S,SW, W directions of the compass.
Its use is three-fold: 1. To function inside outside sentences, the way the dot, . functions as a period at their end. -- a contextual self-referencing index that stops the flow; 2. (in addition, while doing so) to call attention to the token to which it is attached; and 3. to indicate direction of token association.
This last is the psychosemiotic equivalent of implication in logical cognition. Use of the asterisk indicates the material to which it is attached (title, phrase, etc.) is multiply over-determined in significance, and can be 'unpacked' in the context of its occurrence into different dimensions. The centre of the intersecting lines is where the "S" is added as "the 9th" -- or, since the same process of addition can be reversed from the opposite side, it can be said also where the 8, the moveable plane of infinity "above", is brought into relation with a constant, from the extra-symbolic world "below".
Sign-Use
This hyphenated expression is used to designate the units, or symbolic constituents, of an act of communication.
Letters, words, punctuation, and number signs (with their signs for adding, subtracting etc. operators) are the basic types of signs used in common communication. Glyphs, hand-arm gestures, electronic sketches and the like, are understood to bear a symbolic meaning, or text, which explains their special appearance, patterns, occurrence and concurrence with something other than themselves, when true. These are primary communicators.
Diagrams, charts, maps, blueprints, matrices and models require the use of primary communicators to understand what they are about, unless they are literal depictions, as in the case of photographs, anatomical drawings, etc.
S* (abbreviation of a sign-use)
The asterisk, *, is used here for the sign to which it is attached, analogous to use of the dot, ., for ending a sentence according to the common convention. The dot signals "stop", to the string of words read; the asterisk signals "look at me", double-taking the attachee.
Example: Language*. Introduced into discourse about language, language* is psychosemiotic discourse about itself.
Red Fag of criticism goes up: Language about language leads directly to paradox and self-contradiction unless subject to restriction. This is where the 20th century began, with Russell's Theory of Logical Types introduced into the philosophy of mathematics to prevent just this from occurring.
II. Linear Logic (for textual communication)
versus Circular Logic (for token communication)
The logic of non-self-contradiction (physical sciences)
versus the logic of opposites (psychology)
III. Doubles* and Consciousness
Sign-use about S* is a mirror of consciousness of consciousness (consciousness under sign-use).
(old conundrum: "How can one speak of consciousness of itself, if consciousness is the pre-condition of awareness of any and all content? -- can a hammer, the instrument used for striking whatever, strike itself?" -- Reply: wrong tool analogy. Short answer to the question is: by mirroring. Elaborating: consciousness finds itself (we find it) mirrored in its products, the articulated contents under S*.)
Consciousness is brought to itself through necessity in/through S*: that is to say, in necessary connections between sign-uses relating only to each other as such, not to any other reality (the truth of the reality in signs through signs).
IV. The Asterisk
The conventional sign constructed by crossing the vertical-horizontal lines by the X diagonals creates the figure of eight vertices, pointing in each of the NW, N, NE, E, SE,S,SW, W directions of the compass.
Its use is three-fold: 1. To function inside outside sentences, the way the dot, . functions as a period at their end. -- a contextual self-referencing index that stops the flow; 2. (in addition, while doing so) to call attention to the token to which it is attached; and 3. to indicate direction of token association.
This last is the psychosemiotic equivalent of implication in logical cognition. Use of the asterisk indicates the material to which it is attached (title, phrase, etc.) is multiply over-determined in significance, and can be 'unpacked' in the context of its occurrence into different dimensions. The centre of the intersecting lines is where the "S" is added as "the 9th" -- or, since the same process of addition can be reversed from the opposite side, it can be said also where the 8, the moveable plane of infinity "above", is brought into relation with a constant, from the extra-symbolic world "below".
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