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Subject: Re: Is semiotics an "informal logic"?
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Date: 11 Nov 91 13:59:48 GMT
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"Communication is risky and error prone."  TRUE

"Semiotics is a hangover from bygone days."

Well, let's not throw out the bath water until we're sure the baby is
is safe.  Semiotics grew too fast, perhaps, during the Greed Decade,
but now we can look back, sort out what seems to work, and make a
fresh start.

The most important thing I have learned about semiotics is that the
lexeme /semiotic/ has encyclopedic denotations and connotations.  I'm
puzzling my way through the labor of building a tree to illustrate
this. At this point in the discussion, I believe that a variety of
semiotics are in play.  Mathematical semiotics, logic semiotics,
linguistic semiotics, and the rest of it.

A healthy semiosis makes me move to another part of the discussion.  I
wonder what various discussants mean by the following lexemes:

1. /rhetoric/ = ?               4. /monotonic/ = ?

2. /logic/ = ?                  5. /code-decode/ = ?

3. /informal logic/ = ?         6. /inference/ = ?

>LOGOFF.:-)

Michael/email:MORIARTY@NDSUVM1


