Category Archives: Community

Figure 2. An Elementary Sign Relation Re: Peirce List Discussion • Jerry Chandler It is above all important to understand that Peirce’s concept of a sign relation is defined at a higher order of abstraction than any notion of causal … Continue reading →

Figure 3. Aspects of a Sign Relation Re: Peirce List Discussion • Kirsti Määttänen One of the chief advantages of Peirce’s systems of logical graphs, entitative and existential, is the way they escape the bounds of 1-dimensional syntax and thus make … Continue reading →

Figure 2. An Elementary Sign Relation Re: Peirce List Discussion • Gary Fuhrman Peirce’s existential graphs are a general calculus for expressing the same subject matter as his logic of relative terms and thus they serve to represent the structures … Continue reading →

Figure 2. An Elementary Sign Relation Re: Peirce List Discussion • Jon Awbrey • John Collier I strongly agree, Jon.  Reading meaning into artefacts of the representation is not typically transparent.  I would say that the whole symbol represents the … Continue reading →

Figure 2. An Elementary Sign Relation Re: Peirce List Discussion • Jerry Chandler An elementary sign relation is an ordered triple   It is called elementary because it is one element of a sign relation where is a set of … Continue reading →

Figure 2. An Elementary Sign Relation Re: Peirce List Discussion • Mike Bergman • Valentine Daniel That “triskelion” stick-figure for an elementary sign relation or individual triple (o, s, i) is about the simplest possible.  There are some problems with … Continue reading →

Re: Peirce List Discussion • Mike Bergman • Valentine Daniel Let’s start as simply as possible.  The following figure is typical of many I have used to illustrate sign relations from the time I first began studying Peirce’s theory of … Continue reading →