{"id":8713,"date":"2025-01-02T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=8713"},"modified":"2024-12-14T15:56:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T15:56:49","slug":"is-biosemiotics-scientific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=8713","title":{"rendered":"Is Biosemiotics Scientific? (Part 4 of 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0222 With that said, here is a quick wrap-up of the four chapters in Part III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For chapter six,&nbsp;<em>Sharov and Tonnessen&#8217;s noumenal overlay<\/em>&nbsp;conceptualizes&nbsp;<em>semiotic agency<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For chapter seven,&nbsp;<em>semiotic agency<\/em>&nbsp;is considered&nbsp;<em>an actuality<sub>2<\/sub><\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;In order to understand an actuality<sub>2<\/sub>, the actuality<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;must have a normal context<sub>3<\/sub>&nbsp;and potential<sub>1<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0223 Here is&nbsp;<em>the nested form for semiotic agency<sub>2<\/sub><\/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\/Slide072.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide072.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide072.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide072-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Semiotic agency<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;presents a sign-relation as a dyadic actuality.&nbsp;&nbsp;This is shown in Part I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Semiosis<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;does not occur without an agent<sub>3<\/sub>&nbsp;and the possibility of &#8216;significance&#8217;<sub>1<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0224 For chapter eight, the evolution of agents<sub>3<\/sub>&nbsp;and the possibility of &#8216;significance&#8217;<sub>1<\/sub>&nbsp;proceeds in tandem with the evolution of semiotic agency<sub>2<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0225 For chapter nine, phenomenology serves as a precursor to biosemiotics, just as the social sciences of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries serve as intimations of phenomenology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0226 Without a doubt, Sharov and Tonnessen build upon the insights of philosophers writing a century earlier, as seen in two of Razie Mah&#8217;s e-books:&nbsp;<em>Comments on Jacques Maritain&#8217;s Book (1935) Natural Philosophy<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Comments on Nicholas Berdyaev&#8217;s Book (1939) Spirit and Reality<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Both Maritain and Berdyaev are interested in understanding the nature of scientific inquiry.&nbsp;&nbsp;And now, their works inform biosemioticians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0222 With that said, here is a quick wrap-up of the four chapters in Part III. 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