[port-peer-review] Re: Sarbo -- Practical Bearings of Peirce's Maxim

[Jon Awbrey <jawbrey@oakland.edu>]

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Janos,    (02)

http://lab.bootstrap.org/port/papers/2002/sarbo.html#nid012
http://lab.bootstrap.org/port/papers/2002/sarbo.html#nid013    (03)

With regard to objects, we must not forget that pragmatic objects
can also be objectives, that is, intentional objects, which are
inexistent in the moment of intention.  As an object example,
the 'pragmatic web' is an intentional object that does not
fully exist at present.  Yet we have a conception of it,
a conception of its effects, and a conception of their
practical bearings.  Yet again, our conceptions do
not of necessity constitute knowledge, for they
could easily turn out to be misconceptions.    (04)

Some data on the connotations of the original "pragma"
that we often find obscured by the later word "object".    (05)

Let's say we look up "pragma" in a Greek lexicon:    (06)

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/resolveform
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/resolveform?lookup=pragma
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0058%3Aentry%3D%2327224
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%2386113    (07)

This will give you a sense of how all objects (pragmata)
are at root intentional objects, that is, are inextricably,
except in absent-minded pretense, linked up with our aims,
annoyances, biases, businesses, circumstances, concerns,
desires, ends, fortunes, functions, goals, hindrances,
intentions, interests, objectives, obstacles, problems,
purposes, troubles, and so on.    (08)

Jon Awbrey    (09)

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