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(Part 2 of 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0236 So,&nbsp;<em>what is<\/em>&nbsp;for the Positivist&#8217;s judgment belongs to the category of firstness (the realm of possibility) because&nbsp;<em>phenomena<\/em>&nbsp;have&nbsp;<em>the potential to be observed and measured<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>their noumenon<\/em>&nbsp;has&nbsp;<em>the potential of being the thing responsible for the phenomena<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>What ought to be<\/em>&nbsp;for the Positivist&#8217;s judgment belongs to the category of secondness (the realm of actuality).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0237 Triumphalist scientists propose to substitute a successful model for the noumenon because the substitution increases&nbsp;<em>the potential that there is something real that is responsible for the phenomena<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Indeed, to a laboratory scientist,&nbsp;<em>the model<\/em>&nbsp;(overlaying the noumenon) is objectified by&nbsp;<em>its phenomena<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Yes, the model is more &#8220;real&#8221; than its noumenon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0238&nbsp;<em>The biosemioticians Sharov and Tonnessen<\/em>&nbsp;propose to substitute&nbsp;<em>their noumenal overlay,<\/em>&nbsp;with similar results.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Phenomena<\/em>&nbsp;objectify&nbsp;<em>their noumenal overlay<\/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\/Slide074.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide074.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide074.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide074-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0239 Notice how&nbsp;<em>the noumenal overlay<\/em>&nbsp;has a dyadic structure.&nbsp;&nbsp;Since&nbsp;<em>the dyad<\/em>&nbsp;characterizes&nbsp;<em>the category of secondness<\/em>and since secondness is&nbsp;<em>the realm of actuality,<\/em>&nbsp;the dyadic structure increases the feeling that the&nbsp;<em>the noumenal overlay<\/em>&nbsp;is actual.&nbsp;&nbsp;Indeed,&nbsp;<em>the dyad<\/em>&nbsp;is so actual that&nbsp;<em>Kant&#8217;s slogan<\/em>&nbsp;seems to apply.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>This overlay<\/em>&nbsp;has the feel that it is more than&nbsp;<em>what it appears to be<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is precisely&nbsp;<em>what Sharov and Tonnessen claim<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Their noumenal overlay<\/em>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<em>what all noumena in the biological sciences have in common<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;If&nbsp;<em>the diverse noumena of the biological sciences<\/em>&nbsp;(like the leaves on a tree) have&nbsp;<em>one thing in common,<\/em>&nbsp;it is&nbsp;<em>the biosemiotic noumenal overlay<\/em>&nbsp;(like the tree that bears the leaves).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0240 This includes&nbsp;<em>the noumenon of the psychometric sciences<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or, I should say, this applies to&nbsp;<em>the model that the psychometric sciences aim to substitute for Sharov and Tonnessen&#8217;s noumenal overlay<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After all, their model is a simplification of the S&amp;T noumenal overlay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide075.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide075.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide075.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide075-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0236 So,&nbsp;what is&nbsp;for the Positivist&#8217;s judgment belongs to the category of firstness (the realm of possibility) because&nbsp;phenomena&nbsp;have&nbsp;the potential to be observed and measured&nbsp;and&nbsp;their noumenon&nbsp;has&nbsp;the potential of being the thing responsible for the phenomena.&nbsp; What ought to be&nbsp;for the Positivist&#8217;s judgment belongs to the category of secondness (the realm of actuality). 0237 Triumphalist scientists propose to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[528],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychometric-sciences"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Can Biosemiotics Explain The Psychometric Sciences? 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