Toby Chappell

Linguist, Peircean semiotician, contemplator of the dust. Author: "The Languages of Magic". We are the signmakers ~ We are the dreamers of dreams.

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Recently had a wide ranging discussion of the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce with the excellent Hermitix Podcast. We explored much broader themes than just his semiotic theories

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325. The Work of Charles Sanders Pearce with Toby Chappell

Listen now: https://t.co/8yH037apGM

Youtube: https://t.co/vMOadFcTN2

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@turingcop In Lovecraftian/Ligottian terms, probably the only thing worse than a cosmos that is utterly indifferent to us is a cosmos that is conscious of its indifference to us.

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@biblioklept Seven Stars in Cambridge. Definitely will get your weird on there

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@Weird_Friction Grabinski is criminally underrated and under known

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@camtology For sure. Both locations end up with some really unexpected treasures.

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How meaning seems to have run amok in our hyper-connected world, from the perspective of semiotics and contagion. https://t.co/QTpBZlZtf5

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Peirce’s and, by extension, Eco’s models of signs and communication are better able to adapt to the postmodern onslaught of unrestrained signification. Eco’s playful, yet eerily prescient, characterization of the sign is that a sign is anything that can be used to lie... 1/

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@JutlandGhost The Conversation

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@meta_nomad York

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@Pinball_Lez A very underrated early episode... fax me some halibut!

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Peter Ackroyd, _Hawksmoor_

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All these events were random and yet connected, part of a pattern so large it remained inexplicable. He might, then, have to invent a past from the evidence available---and, in that case, would not the future also be an invention?

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Originally determined this during the three years I lived in NYC and relied on the subway, but it applies to airports, Amtrak, long-haul busses and trains, etc.

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@RobertTalisse My long-standing theory is that all forms of mass transportation in the US are secretly large-scale psych experiments into how much absurdity people will endure if they think they'll eventually reach their destination anyway.Any actual transportation of people is a happy accident

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@RobertTalisse My long-standing theory is that all forms of mass transportation in the US are secretly large-scale psych experiments into how much absurdity people will endure if they think they'll eventually reach their destination anyway.Any actual transportation of people is a happy accident

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@chthonic_youth Regular Freemasons are desperately trying to convince younger men to join before the old ones all die off. Irregular lodges are doing a bit better, partially because many will admit women and others who don't fit the traditional image of freemasonry

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@SamSmichh I think the biggest issue comes down to J not being a logician, and P not being ok with how J developed things using different tools. Of course it's more nuanced than those issues. If you're interested I can send you the paper; would be interesting to have other comments on it

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@SamSmichh That being said, J was open to nominalist interpretations of pragmatism (a huge no-no for P). And J stuck with the original version of the Maxim even as P refined it over time.

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@shitTOGv2 @unconscioushh Nope , is unfortunately very real