Epistemization
Epistemization

Summary/Abstract: I am indebted to Jesper Hoffmeyer for his references to my early ideas on codes and scientific epistemology. His paper with Claus Emmeche (1991) on code duality was responsible for stimulating my interest in biosemiotics, a field I did not know existed. My first impression was that we were in general agreement. However in his recent book, Biosemiotics, Hoffmeyer (2008: 92–96) questions both my dual modes of description, as well as the epistemic cut that physicists regard as inescapable. Instead of seeing the cut as a requirement for empirical tests of theories, Hoffmeyer sees the epistemic cut itself as a “paradox” that he hopes to “transcend” by a Peircean cosmology.

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