Pragmatic Semiotic Information • Comment 2
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All, continuing from previous post ...
I was at the time working as a “scanner” in the High Energy Physics
Lab at Michigan State, sitting in a darkened room measuring tracks of
particle interactions projected on a lighted scanning table from reels
and reels of bubble chamber photographs gathered at CERN in a massive
mad dash accelerator experiment some years before. For my part it was
a menial job, 4pm to midnight every worklong day, but even a minion can
imagine himself sharing in a hunt for the Ω⁻ particle, or whatever the
Grail or Questying Beastie was at the time.
Meanwhile, in another part of the grove, I was spending my daylight hours
checking off the final boxes for my Bachelor's degree, the main thing being
to get my paper on Peirce, “Complications of the Simplest Mathematics”,
approved as a substitute for a field study requirement. That had taken me
two years' work in MSU's media library, poring through the microfilm reels
of Peirce's Nachlass in search of enlightenment about a single puzzling
paragraph I tripped over in his Collected Papers.
To be continued ...
Jon
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