Vagueness andVagueness andGeneralityGenerality

Let’s listen to Let’s listen to PeircePeirce

"[A]NYTHING IS GENERAL IN SO FAR AS THE PRINCIPLE OF EXCLUDED MIDDLE DOES NOT APPLY TO IT AND IS VAGUE IN SO FAR AS THE PRINCIPLE OF CONTRADICTION DOES NOT APPLY TO IT." (Peirce CP:5.448)

"[A] CONTINUUM IS A COLLECTION OF SO VAST A MULTITUDE THAT IN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE OF POSSIBILITY THERE IS NOT ROOM FOR THEM TO RETAIN THEIR DISTINCT IDENTITIES; BUT THEY BECOME WELDED INTO ONE ANOTHER. THUS, THE CONTINUUM IS ALL THAT IS POSSIBLE, IN WHAT EVER DIMENSION IT BE CONTINUOUS." (NEM:4.343)

A LINE: "CONTAINS NO POINTS UNTILTHE CONTINUITY IS BROKEN BY

MARKING THE POINTS. iNACCORDANCE WITH THIS IT SEEMS

NECESSARY TO SAY THAT ACONTINUUM, WHERE IT IS

CONTINUOUS AND UNBROKEN,CONTAINS NO DEFINITE PARTS; THATITS PARTS ARE CREATED IN THE ACTOF DEFINING THEM AND THE PRECISE

DEFINITION OF THEM BREAKS THECONTINUITY." (CP:6.168)

"I DRAW A CHALK LINE ON THEBOARD.... WHAT I HAVE REALLY

DRAWN THERE IS AN OVAL LINE. FORTHIS WHITE CHALK-MARK IS NOT A

LINE, IT IS A PLANE FIGURE INEUCLIDE SENSE [SIC], A SURFACE,

AND THE ONLY LINE [THAT] IS THEREIS THE LINE WHICH FORMS THE LIMITBETWEEN THE BLACK SURFACE AND

THE WHITE SURFACE.... THEBOUNDARY BETWEEN THE BLACK

AND WHITE IS NEITHER BLACK, NORWHITE, NOR NEITHER, NOR BOTH. IT

IS THE PAIREDNESS OF THE TWO. IT ISFOR THE WHITE THE ACTIVE

SECONDNESS OF THE BLACK; FORTHE BLACK THE ACTIVE SECONDNESS

OF THE WHITE." (CP:6.203)

"OF COURSE, THERE IS A POSSIBLE,OR POTENTIAL, POINT-PLACEWHEREVER A POINT MIGHT BE

PLACED; BUT THAT WHICH ONLY MAYBE IS NECESSARILY THEREBY

INDEFINITE, AND AS SUCH, AND IN SOFAR, AND IN THOSE RESPECTS, AS ITIS SUCH, IT IS NOT SUBJECT TO THE

PRINCIPLE OF CONTRADICTION."(CP:6.182)

"WHAT IS THE COLOR OF THEDIVIDING LINE; IS IT GREEN OR NOT? ISHOULD SAY THAT IT IS BOTH GREENAND NOT. 'BUT THAT VIOLATES THE

PRINCIPLE OF CONTRADICTION,WITHOUT WHICH THERE CAN BE NOSENSE IN ANYTHING.' NOT AT ALL;THE PRINCIPLE OF CONTRADICTIONDOESN'T APPLY TO POSSIBILITIES.

POSSIBLY I SHALL VOTE FORROOSEVELT; POSSIBLY NOT.

GEOMETRICAL LIMITS ARE MEREPOSSIBILITIES." (NEM:2.531)

See the following, for your See the following, for your contemplation, regarding contemplation, regarding

‘homogeny’ and ‘hierogeny’ and ‘homogeny’ and ‘hierogeny’ and ‘heterogeny’, all of which bear on ‘heterogeny’, all of which bear on

vagueness and generality, vagueness and generality, somehow, I trust (or, perhaps, see somehow, I trust (or, perhaps, see

merrell, merrell, Processing Cultural Processing Cultural MeaningMeaning, Legas, 2007), Legas, 2007)……

HOMOGENY

HETEROGENY

HEGEMONY

HEGEMONY

HETEROGENY

HOMOGENY

POSTMODERNISMO

POSTMODERNIDAD

Gramsci

DerridaLacan

Deleuze y GuattariBaudrillard

FoucaultSaberPoder

Discurso

DifféranceDiseminación

Anti-LogocentrismoAnti-FonocentrismoIntertextualidad

Significantes FlotantesDeterritorialización

NomadismoRizoma

SimulacrosMás real que la realidad

ContestaciónNegociación

'Textualism

o'

'Textualism

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(Post)colonialismo

Superordinados-SubordinadosTotalitarismo