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0470 Now, I want to get more serious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a diagram of the virtual nested form in firstness for the fundament along with the potential for the content-level of the derivative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0471 If I follow the arrow to the emergent possibility,<\/em> then a question arises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does the virtual nested form in the category of firstness<\/em> support the emergent potential of ‘meaning, presence and message’1a<\/sub>?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, the first term stands boldly.  The second and third terms fade, until attention proceeds upstairs to the situation and perspective levels, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, that does not address the question at hand<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0472 From pages 422 to 425, the discussion touches base with this question,<\/em> without coming close to articulating it, much less its foundations.  It is the dance of a young interviewer eager to say something intelligent<\/em> and an old academic trying to avoid saying something stupid<\/em>.  It is a beautiful dance, because every statement<\/em> shimmers like a shiny fabric, glistening in the illumination of a beam of light<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That light is the radiance of the question at hand<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I only knew what that question is<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0473 How many times in our evolutionary development and our civilizational history have humans created inventions, like writing, without really comprehending what they are doing?<\/em>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The virtual nested form in firstness<\/em> lists out the titular words of the journal that the Tartu-Moscow School inaugurates<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who would have predicted that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Peirce’s categories<\/em> allows the inquirer<\/em> to diagram the purely relational triadic structure of the interscope<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0474 The normal context of the TMS positivist intellect3a<\/sub><\/em> entails a new disciplinary language2am<\/sub>, or approach2am<\/sub>, or whatever matter one might imagine2am<\/sub>,<\/em> emerging from (and situating) the potential of meaning1a<\/sub>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

0475 Here is a picture of the virtual nested form in thirdness<\/em> along with the emergent content-level normal context3a<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0276 This figure portrays the first ascent of the TMS during the 1960s through the 1980s<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I suspect that the second ascent<\/em> will incorporate Peircean diagrams<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0477 Of course, the Tartu-Moscow School (TMS) does not constitute a unitary positivist stance3a<\/sub>.  There are a specialized discourses for each manifestation of “literary text2af<\/sub>“.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the foundation upon which Juri Lotman builds his pivot to cultural studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I suspect that Uspenskij harbors doubts.  In one statement, he admits that Lotman’s most important quality<\/em> was his human charisma<\/em>.  In another statement, he wonders whether modern semiotics<\/em> exists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0478 During the first interview, conducted on August 25, 2011, at the conclusion of the Tartu Summer School of Semiotics conference on “Semiotic Modeling”,<\/em> the aged linguist does not admit to much hope for the field of inquiry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0479 Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peircean diagrams of the invention of the TMS<\/em> lie fifteen years in the future<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consequently, the sessions do not provide hope that the exact methods3c<\/sub> of structuralist3b<\/sub> semiological3a<\/sub> models2c<\/sub> can withstand scrutiny by expertise in the natural and social sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0480 Before the fall of the USSR, all the TMS had to show was that they were on the science side of the fence standing between superstition<\/em> (okay, “religion”) and science<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, over twenty years later, the TMS needs to show that they can deliver what the natural and social sciences cannot deliver,<\/em> guidance in how to define3a<\/sub> the literary text2af<\/sub> in terms of meaning, presence and message1a<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0481 Why do the editors of Sign System Studies<\/em> publish, in 2017, interviews with one of the shakers and movers of the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics, recorded earlier in the decade?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something foundational… er… cosmological happens in the 1960s through the 1980s.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps, the now-aged inventor<\/em> knows what was invented<\/em>.  It is the exact methods3c<\/sub> of structuralist3b<\/sub> semiological3a<\/sub>inquiry into the literary text2bf<\/sub> (in the most expansive sense of the term).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, no one knows the implications<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, maybe, a look into the history of the invention<\/em> will assist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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