Re: FB | Charles S. Peirce Society • John Corcoran

Questions about the proper treatment of use and mention from the standpoint of Peirce’s theory of signs came up recently in discussions on Facebook.  In pragmatic semiotics the trade‑off between “signs-of-objects” and “signs-as-objects” opens up the wider space of higher order sign relations.  In previous work on Inquiry Driven Systems I introduced the subject in the following way.

When interpreters reflect on their use of signs they require an appropriate technical language in which to pursue their reflections.  They need signs referring to sign relations, signs referring to elements and components of sign relations, and signs referring to properties and classes of sign relations.  The orders of signs developing as reflection evolves can be organized under the heading of “higher order signs” and the reflective sign relations involving them can be referred to as “higher order sign relations”.

References

• John Corcoran
• Schemata : The Concept of Schema in the History of Logic
• Use And Mention, Use Without Mention, Mention Without Use

Resources

• Inquiry Driven Systems
• Reflective Interpretive Frameworks
• Higher Order Sign Relations
• Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems
• Survey of Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations

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