The connective relations among signs are systemic, not private subjective matters.

Evidence

We wish to know what are the occurrences that make the word “or” useful. These occurrences are not to be sought in the facts that verify or falsify beliefs, which have no disjunctive quality, but are what they are. The only occurrences that demand the word “or” are subjective, and are in fact hesitations. In order to express a hesitation in words, we need “or” or some equivalent word… … “[N]ot” must derive its meaning from experiences of rejection, and “or” from experiences of hesitation. Thus no essential word in our vocabulary can have a meaning independent of experience. — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 732 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Yet from the sociological viewpoint, we are interested only in such questions as: How do the various phases of super-ordination and subordination follow one another? To what extent is superordination in a given relation compatible with co-ordination in other relations? How much superordination is required in the initial phase of the relation to destroy co-ordination completely? — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 208 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Logical connectives derive their meaning from subjective experiences like hesitation and rejection. — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 732; Society is constituted by communication, not by similarity of customs.; Legal meaning derives from practices of legitimation, not truth conditions. — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 386 (+4 more)

Related

• Social relations can be analyzed purely as formal configurations (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Logical connectives derive their meaning from subjective experiences like hesitation and rejection. #contradicts (0.80) — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 732
• Social relations can be analyzed purely as formal configurations #corroborates (0.72) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 208
• Society is constituted by communication, not by similarity of customs. #corroborates (0.60)
• Legal meaning derives from practices of legitimation, not truth conditions. #corroborates (0.50) — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 386
• Culture names the forms, not the content, of social relationships #corroborates (0.50) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 882