{"id":8710,"date":"2025-01-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=8710"},"modified":"2024-12-14T15:52:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T15:52:21","slug":"is-biosemiotics-scientific-part-3-of-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=8710","title":{"rendered":"Is Biosemiotics Scientific? (Part 3 of 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0216 In Part III of their book, the authors dance through a philosophical critique without Peircean tools to depict triadic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uh oh.&nbsp;&nbsp;Without figures, is this critique philosophical or scientific or phenomenological?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0217 Here is the bottom line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is&nbsp;<em>a method<\/em>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<em>the madness of the phenomenologists<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is why&nbsp;<em>Catholic philosophers<\/em>&nbsp;long to engage in&nbsp;<em>discourse with phenomenologists,&nbsp;<\/em>even as phenomenologists reject discourse, on the um&#8230; grounds&#8230; that phenomenology follows the mandate of the positivist intellect.&nbsp;&nbsp;Metaphysics is not allowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0218 Catholic philosophers see that there is a method to phenomenology that can be articulated (somehow) by scholastic tradition (following Aquinas, not Poinsot).&nbsp;&nbsp;But, they do not appreciate how phenomenology is historically embedded in the modern&nbsp;<em>Age of Ideas<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Also, they do not appreciate&nbsp;<em>what the scholastic tradition has achieved<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;John Poinsot writes in the 1600s and Thomas Aquinas writes in the 1200s.&nbsp;&nbsp;Poinsot figures out that signs are triadic relations.&nbsp;&nbsp;Aquinas mentions signs as things that signify other other things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Razie Mah opens the lid to this can of worms in the series,&nbsp;<em>Phenomenology and the Positivist Intellect<\/em>&nbsp;(articles available at smashwords and other e-book venues).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0219 Yes, there is&nbsp;<em>a method<\/em>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<em>the madness of the phenomenologists<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Phenomenologists intuitively generate (through their prescribed methods)&nbsp;<em>noumenal overlays<\/em>&nbsp;that coincide with&nbsp;<em>semiotic agency, as articulated by Sharov and Tonnessen<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0220 What does this imply?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sharov and Tonnessen&#8217;s formulation of semiotic agency,<\/em>&nbsp;as a noumenal overlay, allows the inquirer to consider&nbsp;<em>the prescribed methods of phenomenology<\/em>&nbsp;as ways for examining&nbsp;<em>natural and social phenomena<\/em>&nbsp;arising from&#8230;&nbsp;<em>the noumenal overlay of semiotic agency<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide071.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide071.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide071.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide071-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0221 Am I saying that phenomenological determinations of&nbsp;<em>what the noumenon must be<\/em>&nbsp;are really&nbsp;<em>models that phenomenologists triumphantly overlay upon S&amp;T&#8217;s noumenon?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I suppose&#8230; if&nbsp;<em>what I say<\/em>&nbsp;is correct&#8230; then&nbsp;<em>biosemiotics<\/em>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<em>a science<\/em>&nbsp;that belongs to&nbsp;<em>a new age of understanding<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What age is that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Deely (1942-2017) thought long and hard about&nbsp;<em>the proper label<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How about&nbsp;<em>The Age of Triadic Relations?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0216 In Part III of their book, the authors dance through a philosophical critique without Peircean tools to depict triadic relations. 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