Jon Awbrey<p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/SignRelationalManifolds" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SignRelationalManifolds</span></a> • 5</p><p>• <a href="https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2022/11/06/sign-relational-manifolds-5-2/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquiryintoinquiry.com/2022/11</span><span class="invisible">/06/sign-relational-manifolds-5-2/</span></a></p><p>Let me try to say in intuitive terms what I think is really going on here.</p><p>The problem is as old as those about <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/OtherMinds" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OtherMinds</span></a>, <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Intersubjectivity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Intersubjectivity</span></a>, or <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Commensurability" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Commensurability</span></a> and it involves a whole slew of other old problems — <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/RealityVsAppearance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RealityVsAppearance</span></a> or <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/RealityVsRepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RealityVsRepresentation</span></a>, not to mention <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/TheOneAndTheMany" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TheOneAndTheMany</span></a>. One way to sum up the question might be “conditions on the possibility of a <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MutuallyObjectiveWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MutuallyObjectiveWorld</span></a> ”.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Peirce" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Peirce</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Semiotics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Semiotics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Manifolds" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Manifolds</span></a></p>