Vagueness Vagueness and and Generality Generality
Dec 20, 2015
Vagueness andVagueness andGeneralityGenerality
Let’s listen to Let’s listen to PeircePeirce
"[A]NYTHING IS GENERAL IN SO FAR AS THE PRINCIPLE OF EXCLUDED MIDDLE DOES NOT APPLY TO IT AND IS VAGUE IN SO FAR AS THE PRINCIPLE OF CONTRADICTION DOES NOT APPLY TO IT." (Peirce CP:5.448)
"[A] CONTINUUM IS A COLLECTION OF SO VAST A MULTITUDE THAT IN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE OF POSSIBILITY THERE IS NOT ROOM FOR THEM TO RETAIN THEIR DISTINCT IDENTITIES; BUT THEY BECOME WELDED INTO ONE ANOTHER. THUS, THE CONTINUUM IS ALL THAT IS POSSIBLE, IN WHAT EVER DIMENSION IT BE CONTINUOUS." (NEM:4.343)
A LINE: "CONTAINS NO POINTS UNTILTHE CONTINUITY IS BROKEN BY
MARKING THE POINTS. iNACCORDANCE WITH THIS IT SEEMS
NECESSARY TO SAY THAT ACONTINUUM, WHERE IT IS
CONTINUOUS AND UNBROKEN,CONTAINS NO DEFINITE PARTS; THATITS PARTS ARE CREATED IN THE ACTOF DEFINING THEM AND THE PRECISE
DEFINITION OF THEM BREAKS THECONTINUITY." (CP:6.168)
"I DRAW A CHALK LINE ON THEBOARD.... WHAT I HAVE REALLY
DRAWN THERE IS AN OVAL LINE. FORTHIS WHITE CHALK-MARK IS NOT A
LINE, IT IS A PLANE FIGURE INEUCLIDE SENSE [SIC], A SURFACE,
AND THE ONLY LINE [THAT] IS THEREIS THE LINE WHICH FORMS THE LIMITBETWEEN THE BLACK SURFACE AND
THE WHITE SURFACE.... THEBOUNDARY BETWEEN THE BLACK
AND WHITE IS NEITHER BLACK, NORWHITE, NOR NEITHER, NOR BOTH. IT
IS THE PAIREDNESS OF THE TWO. IT ISFOR THE WHITE THE ACTIVE
SECONDNESS OF THE BLACK; FORTHE BLACK THE ACTIVE SECONDNESS
OF THE WHITE." (CP:6.203)
"OF COURSE, THERE IS A POSSIBLE,OR POTENTIAL, POINT-PLACEWHEREVER A POINT MIGHT BE
PLACED; BUT THAT WHICH ONLY MAYBE IS NECESSARILY THEREBY
INDEFINITE, AND AS SUCH, AND IN SOFAR, AND IN THOSE RESPECTS, AS ITIS SUCH, IT IS NOT SUBJECT TO THE
PRINCIPLE OF CONTRADICTION."(CP:6.182)
"WHAT IS THE COLOR OF THEDIVIDING LINE; IS IT GREEN OR NOT? ISHOULD SAY THAT IT IS BOTH GREENAND NOT. 'BUT THAT VIOLATES THE
PRINCIPLE OF CONTRADICTION,WITHOUT WHICH THERE CAN BE NOSENSE IN ANYTHING.' NOT AT ALL;THE PRINCIPLE OF CONTRADICTIONDOESN'T APPLY TO POSSIBILITIES.
POSSIBLY I SHALL VOTE FORROOSEVELT; POSSIBLY NOT.
GEOMETRICAL LIMITS ARE MEREPOSSIBILITIES." (NEM:2.531)
See the following, for your See the following, for your contemplation, regarding contemplation, regarding
‘homogeny’ and ‘hierogeny’ and ‘homogeny’ and ‘hierogeny’ and ‘heterogeny’, all of which bear on ‘heterogeny’, all of which bear on
vagueness and generality, vagueness and generality, somehow, I trust (or, perhaps, see somehow, I trust (or, perhaps, see
merrell, merrell, Processing Cultural Processing Cultural MeaningMeaning, Legas, 2007), Legas, 2007)……
HOMOGENY
HETEROGENY
HEGEMONY
HEGEMONY
HETEROGENY
HOMOGENY
POSTMODERNISMO
POSTMODERNIDAD
Gramsci
DerridaLacan
Deleuze y GuattariBaudrillard
FoucaultSaberPoder
Discurso
DifféranceDiseminación
Anti-LogocentrismoAnti-FonocentrismoIntertextualidad
Significantes FlotantesDeterritorialización
NomadismoRizoma
SimulacrosMás real que la realidad
ContestaciónNegociación
'Textualism
o'
'Textualism
o'
(Post)colonialismo
Superordinados-SubordinadosTotalitarismo