something we need
to remember but know
will sink into subsoil
its appearance up here
marked by this sinsign planted:
4 October 2016
only if ever to seedaylight
as memento of this moment of
bypassing
Now it is precisely the pragmatist’s contention that symbols, owing their origin (on one side) to human conventions, cannot transcend conceivable human occasions. At any rate, it is plain that no possible collection of single occasions of conduct can be, or adequately represent all conceivable occasions. For there is no collection of individuals of any general description which we could not conceive to receive the addition of other individuals of the same description aggregated to it. The generality of the possible, the only true generality, is distributive, not collective. You perhaps do not see how this remark bears upon your question.
— from a dialogue by Peirce, CP 5.532 (c. 1905)
The distinction made here between distributivity and collectivity corresponds to the normal terminology of intension and extension.
— Stjernfelt 2007, 7
meanwhile
Something forgets us perfectly
— Leonard Cohen, ‘For E.J.P.’