{"id":5093,"date":"2021-08-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=5093"},"modified":"2022-05-07T23:07:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T23:07:57","slug":"signs-and-reality-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=5093","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Brian Kemple&#8217;s Essay (2020) &#8220;Signs and Reality&#8221; (Part 3 of 8)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0009 Now, I regard Kemple&#8217;s article &#8220;Signs and Reality&#8221;, in the journal,&nbsp;<em>Reality<\/em>, and Razie Mah&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>Comments on Brian Kemple&#8217;s Essay (2020) &#8220;Signs and Reality&#8221;<\/em>&nbsp;(available at the smashwords website).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is there a crack in&nbsp;<em>the mirror of the scholastic world,<\/em>&nbsp;as it reflects on&nbsp;<em>res<\/em>&nbsp;(thing)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Things are real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So are sign relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If so, are&nbsp;<em>sign relations<\/em>&nbsp;things?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0010 If sign relations are real, then&nbsp;<em>the consequences of their realness<\/em>&nbsp;cannot be denied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This if-then statement applies to biology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are sign-relations so real that they are able to support a niche, into which some hapless creature may adapt?&nbsp;&nbsp;A niche is&nbsp;<em>the potential of an actuality independent of the adapting genus<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Could sign-relations, or triadic relations in general, be so real as to constitute a niche?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consider the masterwork,&nbsp;<em>The Human Niche<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0011 There are more consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If sign relations are real, then&nbsp;<em>a cultural change in the natural-sign character of talk<\/em>&nbsp;may account for&nbsp;<em>a rapid, inexorable alteration of a Lebenswelt<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Does such a transition explain why&nbsp;<em>our current Lebenswelt<\/em>&nbsp;is not the same as&nbsp;<em>the Lebenswelt that we evolved in?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consider the masterwork,&nbsp;<em>An Archaeology of the Fall<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0012 Finally, if&nbsp;<em>our current Lebenswelt<\/em>&nbsp;turns the evolutionary progression upside down, elevating stipulation over custom and custom over nature, then how do we validate our spoken words?&nbsp;&nbsp;If&nbsp;<em>the meaning, presence and message underlying a spoken word<\/em>&nbsp;is stipulated, upon&nbsp;<em>what thing<\/em>&nbsp;do we staple our stipulation?&nbsp;&nbsp;How about this: If we construct an artifact, then that artifact should validate our stipulation.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The artifact<\/em>&nbsp;validates&nbsp;<em>what we stipulate it to be<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What can go wrong with that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consider the masterwork,&nbsp;<em>How to Define the Word &#8220;Religion&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0009 Now, I regard Kemple&#8217;s article &#8220;Signs and Reality&#8221;, in the journal,&nbsp;Reality, and Razie Mah&#8217;s&nbsp;Comments on Brian Kemple&#8217;s Essay (2020) &#8220;Signs and Reality&#8221;&nbsp;(available at the smashwords website). 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