{"id":9100,"date":"2025-05-10T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=9100"},"modified":"2024-12-16T21:40:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T21:40:08","slug":"looking-at-alexander-kravchenkos-chapter-2024-a-constructivist-approach-part-2-of-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=9100","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Alexander Kravchenko&#8217;s chapter (2024) &#8220;A Constructivist Approach&#8230;&#8221; (Part 2 of 6)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>1005 On top of that, in chapter seven of&nbsp;<em>Pathways,<\/em>&nbsp;Alexei Sharov offers another option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to [meaning], there are&nbsp;<em>potential meanings<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>potential signs<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Potential meaning<\/em>&nbsp;goes with [presence].&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Potential sign<\/em>&nbsp;associates to [message].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is awkward, since the terms, &#8220;potential meanings&#8221; and &#8220;potential signs&#8221; take the contiguities out of their brackets (so to speak).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1006 Plus,&nbsp;<em>the exercise of considering &#8220;potential meaning&#8221; and &#8220;potential sign&#8221;<\/em>&nbsp;raises&nbsp;<em>a question concerning how to square the normal-context of agent<sub>3<\/sub>&nbsp;with the normal context of definition<sub>3<\/sub><\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;To me, the agent<sub>3<\/sub>&nbsp;contextualizes definition<sub>2(3)<\/sub>&nbsp;as integral to semiotic agency<sub>2<\/sub>.&nbsp;&nbsp;So, somehow,&nbsp;<em>the nature of spoken words<sub>2(2)<\/sub>&nbsp;<\/em>gets imported into&nbsp;<em>semiotic agency<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;as a thing itself<\/em>&nbsp;(or, should I say,&nbsp;<em>&#8220;a noumenal overlay itself&#8221;?).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1007 Here is a picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide281.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide281.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide281.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide281-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The colors are suggestive, but misleading.&nbsp;&nbsp;[Presence] is wholly contained within the semiotic of semiotic agency.&nbsp;&nbsp;[Message] spans interventional sign-relation and semiotic agency.&nbsp;&nbsp;The coloration reminds me that [message] is like&nbsp;<em>passing through a portal<\/em>&nbsp;to the SV<sub>s<\/sub>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>An interventional sign-object&nbsp;<\/em>(SO<sub>i<\/sub>) [inters or infolds]&nbsp;<em>the specifying sign-vehicle of semiotic agency<\/em>&nbsp;(SV<sub>s<\/sub>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the trick. With [inters], the SO<sub>i<\/sub>&nbsp;enters from the Umwelt.&nbsp;&nbsp;With [infolds], the SO<sub>i<\/sub>&nbsp;arrives from the Innerwelt.&nbsp;&nbsp;[Inter] is not wholly contained within the agent.&nbsp;&nbsp;[Infold] is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That may be confusing.&nbsp;&nbsp;And, the above figure exploits that confounding with suggestive, but misleading, coloration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1008&nbsp;<em>What I have said concerning how [meaning] may be problematic<\/em>&nbsp;<em>fits the author&#8217;s bold assertion:<\/em>&nbsp;Knowledge is a language game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meaning is like a substance, the contiguity between&nbsp;<em>a manner of matter<\/em>&nbsp;(the object of an exemplar sign-relation, SO<sub>e<\/sub>) and&nbsp;<em>a manner of form<\/em>&nbsp;(the vehicle of an specifying sign-relation, SV<sub>s<\/sub>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like [message], [meaning] is a portal.&nbsp;&nbsp;The portal goes from the end terminus of semiotic agency, the goal<sub>2c&nbsp;<\/sub>(SO<sub>e<\/sub>), to the beginning terminus of the interventional sign-relation, the goal in action<sub>2c<\/sub>&nbsp;(SV<sub>i<\/sub>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1009 At the same time, meaning<sub>1<\/sub>&nbsp;is a potential that underlies a spoken term<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;in the normal context of definition<sub>3<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1010 So, which is it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&nbsp;<em>the language games<\/em>&nbsp;begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1011 The author relates that a century ago (say, around the 1920s, when the nature of empirical science is debated),&nbsp;<em>linguistic theories of meaning<\/em>&nbsp;display&nbsp;<em>two fashions<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;One academic style concerns&nbsp;<em>how spoken expressions work in terms of symbol manipulation<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The other academic style concerns&nbsp;<em>whether spoken expressions mean what dictionaries say they mean<\/em>&#8230; that is, &#8220;semantic content&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The author makes this accusation in section 8.1, titled, &#8220;Do We Ask The Right Kinds of Questions?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1012 I find this a little funny, along with the author&#8217;s note, saying (more or less), &#8220;Human adaptive behaviors<sub>3<\/sub>&nbsp;may be viewed as end-directed activities that construct semiotic agency<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;as a capacity<sub>1<\/sub>&nbsp;to generate such behavior<sub>3<\/sub>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without the subscripts assigning Peirce&#8217;s categories, the note sounds perfectly circular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the subscripts, the statement transforms into&nbsp;<em>a category-based nested form responsible for constructing semiotic agency<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;as an actuality<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\/Slide282.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide282.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide282.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide282-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;is semiotic agency<sub>2<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1013 Here is the trick.&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;End directed activities&#8221; substitutes for &#8220;the interventional sign-relation&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, the interventional sign-relation [constructs] semiotic agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This dyad is a wonderful way to portray&nbsp;<em>the biosemiotic noumenal overlay<\/em>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<em>speech-alone talk<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1014&nbsp;<em>Speech-alone talk<\/em>&nbsp;is different from&nbsp;<em>hand and hand-speech talk<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Hand talk&nbsp;<\/em>pictures and points to&nbsp;<em>its referents<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1015 In human evolution, hand talk becomes linguistic when manual-brachial icons and indexes become sufficiently distinct from one another as to constitute a system of differences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember dictionaries?&nbsp;&nbsp;They embody a system of differences.&nbsp;&nbsp;Each written word differs from all other written words.&nbsp;&nbsp;Symbols constitute&nbsp;<em>systems of differences<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;A finite set of symbols constitutes&nbsp;<em>a symbolic order<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The symbolic order<\/em>&nbsp;represented by a dictionary is&#8230; um&#8230; alphabetical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once&nbsp;<em>routinized, manual-brachial gestures<\/em>&nbsp;become&nbsp;<em>symbols<\/em>, they fall into a system of differences and become linguistic. Then, these linguistic gestural-words support grammar.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Grammar<\/em>&nbsp;consists in&nbsp;<em>symbolic operations<\/em>&nbsp;within&nbsp;<em>a finite system of differences<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So,&nbsp;<em>hand talk<\/em>&nbsp;refers by&nbsp;<em>way of Peirce&#8217;s natural signs of icons and indexes<\/em>&nbsp;(SO<sub>s<\/sub>).&nbsp;&nbsp;Also, hand talk becomes linguistic when these icons and indexes become more and more symbolic (that is, distinct from one another).&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Grammar<\/em>&nbsp;consists of symbolic operations among&nbsp;<em>hand-talk words<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1016 Hand and hand-speech talk belong to&nbsp;<em>the Lebenswelt that we evolved in<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speech-alone talk belongs to&nbsp;<em>our current Lebenswelt<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speech-alone words cannot picture or point to their referents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1017 Speech-alone talk simply attaches a label to&#8230;. whatever&#8230; such as&nbsp;<em>what the term, &#8220;end-directed activities&#8221; is supposed to mean.<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;Or, maybe I should say,&nbsp;<em>mean, present and announce<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The spoken term, &#8220;end-directed activities&#8221; announces, &#8220;I am what constructs semiotic agency&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The same spoken term<\/em>&nbsp;presents&nbsp;<em>itself<\/em>&nbsp;as belonging to&nbsp;<em>the realm of actuality<sub>2<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same spoken term has&nbsp;<em>a meaning<sub>2<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;that arises from&nbsp;<em>the potential of &#8216;the human capacity to generate adaptive behaviors&#8217;<sub>1<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<em>the normal context of human adaptation<sub>3<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1018 So, here is the trick.&nbsp;&nbsp;The term, &#8220;end-directed activities&#8221;, is just a label.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The interventional sign-relation [constructs] semiotic agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1019 Here is a picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide283.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide283.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide283.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide283-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>1020 The interventional sign-relation allows us to imagine that end-directed activities reside &#8220;out there&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, [meaning] draws the inquirer&#8217;s gaze away from the end-directed action (SV<sub>i<\/sub>) back to the goal<sub>2c<\/sub>&nbsp;(SO<sub>e<\/sub>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, this is crucial, because the goal<sub>2c<\/sub>&nbsp;resides &#8220;in here&#8221;, within semiotic agency.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1005 On top of that, in chapter seven of&nbsp;Pathways,&nbsp;Alexei Sharov offers another option. In addition to [meaning], there are&nbsp;potential meanings&nbsp;and&nbsp;potential signs.&nbsp;&nbsp;Potential meaning&nbsp;goes with [presence].&nbsp;&nbsp;Potential sign&nbsp;associates to [message]. 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