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| To facilitate visual imagery, each token of the type <math>{}^{\backprime\backprime} \text{X} {}^{\prime\prime\text{Y}}\!</math> can be pictured as a specific occasion where the sign <math>{}^{\backprime\backprime} \text{X} {}^{\prime\prime}\!</math> is being used or issued by the interpreter <math>\text{Y}.\!</math> | | To facilitate visual imagery, each token of the type <math>{}^{\backprime\backprime} \text{X} {}^{\prime\prime\text{Y}}\!</math> can be pictured as a specific occasion where the sign <math>{}^{\backprime\backprime} \text{X} {}^{\prime\prime}\!</math> is being used or issued by the interpreter <math>\text{Y}.\!</math> |
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| + | The construal of objects as classes of attributed signs leads to a measure of inter-subjective agreement between the interpreters <math>\text{A}\!</math> and <math>\text{B}.\!</math> Something like this must be the goal of any system of communication, and analogous forms of congruity and gregarity are likely to be found in any system for establishing mutually intelligible responses and maintaining socially coordinated practices. |
− | The construal of objects as classes of attributed signs leads to a measure of inter subjective agreement between the interpreters A and B. Something like this must be the goal of any system of communication, and analogous forms of congruity and gregarity are likely to be found in any system for establishing mutually intelligible responses and maintaining socially coordinated practices. | |
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− | Nevertheless, the particular types of "analytic" solutions that were proposed for resolving the conflict of interpretations between A and B are conceptually unsatisfactory in several ways. The constructions instituted retain the quality of hypotheses, especially due to the level of speculation about fundamental objects that is required to support them. There remains something fictional and imaginary about the nature of the object instances that are posited to form the ontological infrastructure, the supposedly more determinate strata of being that are presumed to anchor the initial objects of discussion. | + | Nevertheless, the particular types of “analytic” solutions that were proposed for resolving the conflict of interpretations between <math>\text{A}\!</math> and <math>\text{B}\!</math> are conceptually unsatisfactory in several ways. The constructions instituted retain the quality of hypotheses, especially due to the level of speculation about fundamental objects that is required to support them. There remains something fictional and imaginary about the nature of the object instances that are posited to form the ontological infrastructure, the supposedly more determinate strata of being that are presumed to anchor the initial objects of discussion. |
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− | Founding objects on a particular selection of object instances is always initially an arbitrary choice, a meet response to a judgment call and a responsibility that cannot be avoided, but still a bit of guesswork that needs to be tested for its reality in practice (RIP). | + | Founding objects on a particular selection of object instances is always initially an arbitrary choice, a meet response to a judgment call and a responsibility that cannot be avoided, but still a bit of guesswork that needs to be tested for its reality in practice. |
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| This means that the postulated objects of objects cannot have their reality probed and proved in detail but evaluated only in terms of their conceivable practical effects. | | This means that the postulated objects of objects cannot have their reality probed and proved in detail but evaluated only in terms of their conceivable practical effects. |
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| 2. One synthetic method ... | | 2. One synthetic method ... |
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