{"id":6786,"date":"2023-10-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=6786"},"modified":"2023-05-27T12:52:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T12:52:53","slug":"looking-at-john-deelys-book-2010-semiotic-animal-part-12-of-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=6786","title":{"rendered":"Looking at John Deely&#8217;s Book (2010) &#8220;Semiotic Animal&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0(Part 12 of 22)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0089 Today, Deely, from his place of rest, speaks in his publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In chapter eight, Deely reminds us that triadic relations allow for mistakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why are mistakes important?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mistakes offer opportunities for correction and development, including the slow realization of the implications of following a particular shepherd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0090 Is it a mistake to regard Deely as a most entertaining and bombastic shepherd?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the answer is yes, then the sheep must now be culled for professionalism by a three-headed dog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the answer is no, then&nbsp;<em>the Cerebus of the Underworld of Semiotica<\/em>&nbsp;will also pass, as it becomes more and more clear that humans are semiotic animals, which is&nbsp;<em>what Deely and his flock are advocating all along<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Simply being human<\/em>makes one into&nbsp;<em>a semiotician<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Certification is not required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0091 In chapter eight, Deely evaluates the sign-relation in regards to premodern protosemiotic distinctions.&nbsp;&nbsp;Distinctions vary according to category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two distinct normal contexts will either exclude or align.&nbsp;&nbsp;For example,&nbsp;<em>death<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>resting in peace<\/em>&nbsp;are normal contexts that can exclude or align, depending on one&#8217;s perspective (and God&#8217;s suprasubjective judgment).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two distinct actualities separate on the basis of one particular contradiction.&nbsp;&nbsp;For example,&nbsp;<em>living<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>dead<\/em>&nbsp;are may refer to the same biological entity, suffering one or the other condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two possibilities may be recognized as distinct, even though one cannot exist without the other.&nbsp;&nbsp;For a scientific example,&nbsp;<em>a noumenon<\/em>&nbsp;cannot exist without&nbsp;<em>its phenomena<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>phenomena<\/em>&nbsp;cannot exist without&nbsp;<em>their noumenon<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0093 Here are two distinctions that, for centuries, schoolmen thought actual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Slide38-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Slide38-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6787\" 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between fundaments and beings<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0095 Whoa!&nbsp;&nbsp;Aristotelian distinctions may be relevant, but leaky?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or does each distinction offer only a partial view of a single entity?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Slide39-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Slide39-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Slide39-3.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Slide39-3-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Figure 39<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0096 Second, Deely claims that the sign-relation, in particular, and triadic relations, in general, are the only modes in 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