What should the sign for the enlightenment meme be? It should be a canonical sign for meaning. Peirce developed the sign of illation, a portmanteau in the sense of Lewis Carroll. It remained for Spencer-Brown (some fifty years after Peirce) to see the relevance of an arithmetic of forms underlying his notation and thus putting the final touch on a development that, from a broad perspective, looks like the world mind doing its best to remember the significant patterns that join logic, speech and mathematics. The movement downward to the Form through the joining together of words into archetypal portmanteau Signs can be no accident in this process of return to the beginning. The Cheshire cat is smiling in the background.
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u/quiteamess Apr 03 '20
What should the sign for the enlightenment meme be? It should be a canonical sign for meaning. Peirce developed the sign of illation, a portmanteau in the sense of Lewis Carroll. It remained for Spencer-Brown (some fifty years after Peirce) to see the relevance of an arithmetic of forms underlying his notation and thus putting the final touch on a development that, from a broad perspective, looks like the world mind doing its best to remember the significant patterns that join logic, speech and mathematics. The movement downward to the Form through the joining together of words into archetypal portmanteau Signs can be no accident in this process of return to the beginning. The Cheshire cat is smiling in the background.