scholarly journals C. S. Peirce on the dynamic object of a sign: From ontology to semiotics and back

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-437
Author(s):  
Helmut Pape
Keyword(s):  
Object Oriented ◽  
The Other ◽  
Dynamic Object ◽  
Contingent Identity ◽  
Process Ontology ◽  
Relational Properties ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Structural Account ◽  
Real Objects ◽  
Normative Role

That reality, and in particular the (dynamic) objects of signs, are independent of our thoughts or other representations is a crucial thesis of Peirce’s realism. On the other hand, his semiotics implies the claim that all reality and all real objects are real for us only because of the signs we use. Do these two claims contradict, even exclude, each other? I will argue that both Peirce’s metaphysics and his semiotics provide a natural via media: a structural account of the openness of processes, featuring transitive relations, connects process ontology implicit in his evolutionary metaphysics and the relational, quasi-inferential features embodied in interpretational sequences of signs. It is shown that Peirce’s notion of a sign, its normative role and his account of the directional force of objects implies a sort of logical causality that supports the unity of objects. In this way sign sequences are able to relate flexibly sign use with contextually specified independent objects. That is to say, relational properties of object-oriented chains of interpretations provide sign users with a flexible, fallibilistic instrument able to capture by contingent identity relations (teridentity) of the identity of objects in changing situations.Includes: Comment by Francesco Bellucci (pp. 433–437).

scholarly journals VIRTUAL OBJECTS: BECOMING REAL

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 619-639
Author(s):  
BARTOLOMIEJ SKOWRON ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Intentional Object ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Real ◽  
Virtual Objects ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Real Objects

From an ontological point of view, virtuality is generally considered a simulation: i.e. not a case of true being, and never more than an illusory copy, referring in each instance to its real original. It is treated as something imagined — and, phenomenologically speaking, as an intentional object. It is also often characterized as fictive. On the other hand, the virtual world itself is extremely rich, and thanks to new technologies is growing with unbelievable speed, so that it now influences the real world in quite unexpected ways. Thus, it is also sometimes considered real. In this paper, against those who would regard virtuality as fictional or as real, I claim that the virtual world straddles the boundary between these two ways of existence: that it becomes real. I appeal to Roman Ingarden’s existential ontology to show that virtual objects become existentially autonomous, and so can be attributed a form of actuality and causal efficaciousness. I conclude that the existential autonomy and actuality of virtual objects makes them count as real objects, but also means that they undergo a change in their mode of existence.

Locke and Mind-Body Dualism

Philosophy ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 45 (172) ◽  
pp. 87-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Odegard
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Open Book ◽  
Relational Properties ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
The Relationship

The word ‘dualism’ can be used to pick out at least four different theories concerning the relationship between mind and body.(1) A mind and a body are two different entities and each is “had” by a man. A man is thus a composite being with two components, one “inner”, the other “outer”. You, for example, are a man and your mind is “inner” in the sense that you alone can reflectively experience yourself thinking, or feeling pain, or seeing colours (or at least that you alone can reflectively experience your own thoughts, feelings and visual experiences). I can in a sense observe you thinking, but only by observing you use your body in certain ways—e.g. to make certain sounds, write certain things, look at the pages of an open book and frown. My “experience” of you thinking (or of your thoughts) is thus not a reflective experience. Your body is “outer”, on the other hand, in the sense that you cannot experience it or its (non-relational) properties in any exclusive way. That is, in whatever sense you can be said to experience your body, someone else can equally be said to experience it.

scholarly journals What’s real is immaterial: What are we doing with new materialism?

Aporia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-14
Author(s):  
David Nicholls
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Healthcare Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Abusive Relationship ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Object Oriented Ontology

New materialism is emerging as one of the most signifi cant developments in healthcare research in recent years, offering radical new ways to rethink our critical relationship with forms, matter, objects and things. As with any new paradigm, it can take some time for the limitations of the approach to become clear. In this article I examine some of these limitations, focusing particularly on new materialist defi nitions of objects and the ontology of affect. Drawing on the recent work of Graham Harman and Timothy Morton, I argue that new materialism fails the ‘fl at ontology test’, and reinforces the kinds of idealism that it purports to critique. Object Oriented Ontology, on the other hand, may allow us to shape a radical new ethics of objects, using that to transform our abusive relationship with the ecosystem, disturb raditional enlightenment binaries and hierarchies, and to put aside human hubris.

scholarly journals Anaphora and Merge

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. p15
Author(s):  
Namkil Kang
Keyword(s):  
Object Oriented ◽  
The Other ◽  
Indirect Object ◽  
Other Hand

The ultimate goal of this paper is to show that binding can be captured in terms of Merge and Transfer. It is well-known that the phi-deficiency view of anaphora is taken to be the predominant view in the Minimalist literature and that an anaphor is assumed to be a nominal that lacks one or more phi-features. We examine the phi-deficiency view of anaphora and argue that animate features, phi-features, and R-features are necessary. Korean ku-casin “he-self” and English himself underspecified for R-features are subject/object/indirect object-oriented and are strictly local anaphors. On the other hand, Korean caki “self” underspecified for phi-features is subject/object-oriented and both locally and non-locally bound. Korean caki-casin “self-self” underspecified for both features (phi-features and R-features) are subject-oriented and strictly a local anaphor. Finally, within the Minimalist work, we show that binding can be captured by animate features, phi-features, R-features, Merge, and Transfer. Transfer provides the governing category and semantic computations, by which binding can be captured.

rGyal tshab dar ma rin chen (1364– 1432)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georges B.J. Dreyfus
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Abstract Entities ◽  
Realist Position ◽  
Real Objects ◽  
Tsong Kha Pa

rGyal tshab dar ma rin chen (Gyeltsap darma rinchen) was a disciple of the great Tsong kha pa. Like much Tibetan philosophy, his work is commentarial in style. In his commentaries on the work of Dharmakīrti he developed a moderate realist position with regard to abstract entities, claiming that this was what Dharmakīrti (apparently an antirealist) really intended. Properties, rGyal tshab maintained, do exist, but not independently of things; universals are separable from particulars in thought, but never in perception. Perception straightforwardly presents us with real objects; inference, on the other hand, tends to present reality in a distorted way.

Weird Allies? Kierkegaard and Object-Oriented Ontology

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 393-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niels Wilde
Keyword(s):  
Object Oriented ◽  
The Self ◽  
Broad Sense ◽  
The Other ◽  
Indirect Communication ◽  
Conceptual Apparatus ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Object Oriented Ontology

AbstractThis paper examines the connection between Kierkegaard’s philosophy of existence and Graham Harman’s object-oriented ontology. The claim is that Harman’s position provides a conceptual apparatus that can beneficially address some basic ontological points in Kierkegaard about actuality, the self and the reality of individual subsisting mind-independent entities. On the other hand, Kierkegaard’s emphasis on the human self as a place situated in existence can provide a supplement to Harman’s realism which implicitly relies on topological notions. If we define an entity, in a broad sense of the term, as something in its own right irreducible to its being-in-a-relation, but we do not want to end up in a frozen universe of isolated monads, we must revisit the notion of relationality in terms of vicarious causation (Harman) or indirect communication (Kierkegaard).

scholarly journals The Ethical Anxiety of Remediation and Speculative Aesthetics in Landscape Film

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-87
Author(s):  
Zoltán Szabó
Keyword(s):  
Object Oriented ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Other ◽  
Pictorial Representation ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Object Oriented Approach ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The One ◽  
Oriented Approach

AbstractThe link between avant-garde cinema and painting has always been a conspicuous one but perhaps never as much as in the case of landscape films. However, not only repurposing or evoking specific paintings but constructing entire films with the intention of producing cinematic analogies to certain traditions of landscape painting presents a number of issues, especially when the films in question are inspired by the sensibilities of 19th-century Romanticism and explore similar topics, such as the works of Peter Hutton. The problem is essentially twofold: on the one hand, how to break away from the painterly roots and make an exclusively cinematic pictorial representation of landscape and, on the other hand, how to account for the complicit position of the filmmaker with regard to the nature–technology opposition they address. Within the theoretical framework of the recent speculative turn in philosophy and the implications of this with regard to aesthetics, I argue that an object-oriented approach to landscape filmmaking – as seen in the works of Chris Welsby –, by establishing pre-compositional rules within which landscape itself can intervene in the filmmaking process, provides a solution to both the aesthetic and the ethical anxiety that haunt landscape filmmakers.

To Prevent Reverse-Enginnering Tools by Shuffling the Stack Status with Hook Mechanism

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 14-25
Author(s):  
Kazumasa Fukuda ◽  
Haruaki Tamada
Keyword(s):  
Reverse Engineering ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
The Other ◽  
Flow Graph ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Target Program ◽  
Object Oriented Languages

In this paper, we propose an obfuscation method to shuffle the stack status for preventing illegal analysis from crackers. Generally, crackers tries building a call flow graph of a program to clarify its behaviors. The call flow graph represents relations among methods, and helps comprehension of a program. On the other hand, a callee is fixed by a method name and the stack status in object oriented languages. Then, changing a stack status causes changing a callee when the callee is overloaded. Therefore, we focus on a hook mechanism to change a callee at runtime by changing the stack status. The program applied our method makes a fake call flow graph (CFG) from reverse-engineering tools, and the fake CFG leads misunderstanding of the program. We conducted two experiments to evaluate the proposed method. First is to evaluate the tolerance against existing reverse-engineering tools: Soot, Jad, Procyon, and Krakatau. The Procyon only succeeded decompilation, the others crashed. Second is to evaluate understandability of the program obfuscated by our method. Only one subject in the nine subjects answered the correct value. The experiments show the proposed method leads misunderstanding even if the target program is tiny and simple.

A study of cometary eruptions through OH radio-lines

1999 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 249-254
Author(s):  
A.M. Silva ◽  
R.D. Miró
Keyword(s):  
Short Duration ◽  
Growth Curves ◽  
The Other ◽  
Initial Mass ◽  
Radio Lines ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Sudden Rise

AbstractWe have developed a model for theH2OandOHevolution in a comet outburst, assuming that together with the gas, a distribution of icy grains is ejected. With an initial mass of icy grains of 108kg released, theH2OandOHproductions are increased up to a factor two, and the growth curves change drastically in the first two days. The model is applied to eruptions detected in theOHradio monitorings and fits well with the slow variations in the flux. On the other hand, several events of short duration appear, consisting of a sudden rise ofOHflux, followed by a sudden decay on the second day. These apparent short bursts are frequently found as precursors of a more durable eruption. We suggest that both of them are part of a unique eruption, and that the sudden decay is due to collisions that de-excite theOHmaser, when it reaches the Cometopause region located at 1.35 × 105kmfrom the nucleus.

Closing the GAP—A 5Å Scanning Microscope

1969 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 6-7
Author(s):  
A. V. Crewe
Keyword(s):  
Normal Form ◽  
The Other ◽  
Resolving Power ◽  
Scanning Microscope ◽  
Conventional Microscope ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Closing The Gap ◽  
Thermal Sources ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Transmission Microscope

We have become accustomed to differentiating between the scanning microscope and the conventional transmission microscope according to the resolving power which the two instruments offer. The conventional microscope is capable of a point resolution of a few angstroms and line resolutions of periodic objects of about 1Å. On the other hand, the scanning microscope, in its normal form, is not ordinarily capable of a point resolution better than 100Å. Upon examining reasons for the 100Å limitation, it becomes clear that this is based more on tradition than reason, and in particular, it is a condition imposed upon the microscope by adherence to thermal sources of electrons.

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