Re: Peirce List • Tom Gollier

Let me dispel any notion that “the interpretant introduces the person as part of the object-sign-interpretant structure”.  We may have left it implicit or unclear in the text but the lower case “i” and the dashed lines in the figure were meant to suggest the agency of the interpreter and the circumstance that signs and interpretants reside nearer the personal sphere than the objects, generally speaking.  As a rule, for all sorts of reasons, primers in semiotics tend to start out talking about interpreters and only gradually abstract away to interpretants.  But I see now that it was faulty notation, as it’s more usual to read a lower case “i” as indicating a member of a local set I.  Next time I will use a Greek iota for the interpretive agent.

Reference

• Interpretation as Action : The Risk of Inquiry

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