ONT Re: Extension x Comprehension = Information
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No, I mean *really, really* irritating doubts ...
| The precursors of hatred arise from the infant's
| response to what William James (1890) called the
| "booming buzzing confusion" that assaults the infant's
| sensorium at perception's birth. The "stranger anxiety"
| evident as early as eight months indicates that the mental
| capacity to perceive differences in objects and to organize
| subjective psychic forces has already begun. Freud (1915)
| tells us that "hate, as a relation to objects, is older
| than love" (p. 139). Freud continues, "As an expression
| of the reaction of unpleasure evoked by objects, it always
| remains in an intimate relation with the self-preservative
| instincts; so that sexual and ego-instincts can readily
| develop an antithesis which repeats that of love and hate".
|
| Eloise Moore Agger (issue ed.), "Prologue",
| Special Issue on "Hatred And Its Rewards",
|'Psychoanalytic Inquiry', 20, no. 3, 2000,
| http://www.psychoanalyticinquiry.com/
We began, as always, 'in mudias res', in that irritatingly doubtful
state of "booming buzzing confusion" that clued us in mostly to the
anterior projection of William James' inciteful 'Psychology' and we
woke into a stream of consciousness staring at the appended picture
of a "muddled sign relation" Q = !O!x!S!x!I!.
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| Objective Framework | Interpretive Framework |
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| |
| o s ) |
| o · · s )) |
| o · · · · s ))) |
| o · · · · s )))) |
| o · · · · s ))))) |
| o · · · · · · · · · · · · · · s )))))) |
| o · · · · s ))))) |
| o · · · · s )))) |
| o · · · · s ))) |
| o · · s )) |
| o s ) |
| |
| |
| Muddled Sign Relation Q = !O!x!S!x!I! |
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There are many ways that a muddle can resolve itself,
if you'll excuse the animistical sympathetic fallacy
of yielding the muddle credit for its own resolution.
One may regard the process of resolution as the differential
reinforcement of certain connections in preference to others,
or as the emphatic differentiation of certain figures in the
carpet or the tapestry that is "finding itself" being woven
on the loom of this tangled skein, or brain, as the case be.
A long time before people had their minds quite set on our present
notions of set theory, they used to speak of "general denotation"
or "plural reference", in which a sign was related to a manifold
variety of objects, whether "equivocally", in different senses,
or "univocally, in the same sense, connotation, or definition
of the sign (for example, the term or the word) in question,
very roughly as might be suggested by the following Figure:
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| Objective Framework | Interpretive Framework |
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| |
| o |
| o · |
| o · · |
| o · · · |
| o · · · · |
| o · · · · · · · · · · · · · · s |
| o · · · · |
| o · · · |
| o · · |
| o · |
| o |
| |
| |
| General Denotation Or Plural Reference |
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So this is one sort of pattern of highlights, reinforcement, or
saliency that we often find spontaneously generating itself and
emerging from the muddle like some dragonfly from a pond's muck.
The roughly dual pattern of pregnance comes soon to mind, where
this would show something like the next arrangement of emphases.
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| Objective Framework | Interpretive Framework |
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| |
| s ) |
| · s )) |
| · · s ))) |
| · · · s )))) |
| · · · · s ))))) |
| o · · · · · · · · · · · · · · s )))))) |
| · · · · s ))))) |
| · · · · s )))) |
| · · · s ))) |
| · s )) |
| s ) |
| |
| |
| Referential And Semiotic Equivalence Classes |
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This is a genroic type of a motif that we shall find to be of
extremely fruitful use again and again, where a bunch of signs
ripens and falls into various and sundry "equivalence classes",
either because they all denote the same object or because they
all connote one another, or most happily of all, both together.
These are known as "referential equivalence classes" (REC's)
and "semiotic equivalence classes" (SEC's), respectively.
Jon Awbrey
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