Platonism in the analytical philosophy of technology: pragmatic rule in projective semiosis

The article discusses the possibility for expressing "the fourth kingdom" of Friedrich Dessauer in the philosophy of technology by means of semiotics. Technology is understood as a material realization of the projective semiosis. The essence of technology is determined by F. Dessauer in terms of Platonism: "Technology is the real idea existence finalistically formed and processed with the inventory given by the nature". Technical is an area in which fiction and fantasy, wrapped in the logical (or at least the grammatical) form, are embodied in the virtual world corresponding to the laws of nature. Technology is a projective semiosis in the part that concerns the objective realization of rational structures in the substrate of sensory perception. "The fourth kingdom" has the same function in the projective semiosis as the "world of ideas" by Plato in the receptive one. The dispute concerns the identification of the rule type applied by F. Dessauer while interpreting this world and whether it is possible today, after more than 80 years since the first publication of this conception, to take it in the author's form. The thesis of the article is that the discovery of the objective laws of technical formation as an independent "kingdom" or "world" should imply its division into groups of semantic, syntactic and pragmatic rules of projective semiosis and be considered in the context of philosophical problem of expression. "Platonism" in the philosophy of technology means the accounting of "the preset forms of decisions", making ontological premise that something non-existent cannot be invented. It requires the analysis of the inventor's access mechanisms to the preset forms in acts of speculation, implementation and processing, as well as the analysis of interaction mechanisms among "worlds", "kingdoms" or "layers of semiosis" in creative activities. In general, the philosophy of technology unfolds as a study of the rules of projective semiosis, grounded in the history of creativity philosophy and building its models contradictory to receptive semiosis. Analytical philosophy of technology, therefore, is the field where practical application of traditional speculative models of receptive semiosis analysis and creative activities can be found.

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