At the beginning of the movie, they know they have to find each other. But they ride off in opposite directions.
— Laurie Anderson, ‘Sharkey’s Day’
The best that I could write would never be more than philosophical remarks; my thoughts were soon crippled if I tried to force them on in any single direction against their natural inclination. – And this was, of course, connected with the very nature of the investigation. For this compels us to travel over a wide field of thought criss-cross in every direction.
— Wittgenstein, Preface to the Philosophical Investigations
I fear I may be producing the impression of talking at random. It is that I wish the reader to “catch on” to my conception, my point of view; and just as one cannot make a man see that a thing is red, or is beautiful, or is touching, by describing redness, beauty, or pathos, but can only point to something else that is red, beautiful, or pathetic, and say, “Look here too for something like that there,” so if the reader has not been in the habit of conceiving ideas as I conceive them, I can only cast a sort of dragnet into his experience and hope that it may fish up some instance in which he shall have had a similar conception.
— Peirce, EP2:122
But I must remember, Reader, that your conceptions may penetrate far deeper than mine; and it is to be devoutly hoped they may.
— Peirce, CP 4.535 (1906)
If I were you, who would be reading this sentence?
But I must remember, Reader, that your conceptions may penetrate far deeper than mine; and it is to be devoutly hoped they may.
— Peirce, CP 4.535 (1906)
GF: If I were you, who would be reading this sentence?
In consideration of the Peirce quote above, us. For our penetration is, one would hope, far deeper having explored turning signs–in your case, writing TS, in mine, reading it, for both of us, continually or, at least, frequently reflecting on turning signs, in part because of you and, in particular, this blog.