[C] [Wittrs] Re: Essences versus Framework versus Causal
- From: "J D" <ubersicht@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:37:46 -0000
JRS,
> But, just perhaps, the now common practices of computer
> programming are beyond anything that Wittgenstein ever saw or
> understood.
I suspect he understood an amount that might surprise our contemporaries - from
discussions with Turing, from Ramsey's exposing him to ideas from Peirce (such
as the type/token distinction) whose ideas have been a big influence on
computer science terminology, and from exposure to ideas in the Brentanian
tradition, the Vienna Circle, et al, which also have influenced computer
science.
> Have you read Ruth Garrett Millikan?
Not firsthand but only by way of references elsewhere. Is "Biosemantics" the
term you were searching for?
> Now, is type/token significantly different from "grammar"? Well,
> it's a question of the programming language grammar for such
> things. Then what?
I'm not sure I understand the question. The type/token distinction in
semiotics can be used to draw distinctions we might wish to make in a
grammatical investigation. And it is a distinction people would make in
various ways on an ad hoc basis in various contexts anyway, so I'd certainly
say it's part of grammar. The type/token distinction as a notion of classes
and instances is certainly something that is a part of our grammar - the
grammar of formal theories in logic and set theory, in various classificatory
schemes in the sciences, and in ordinary English.
JPDeMouy
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