Category Archives: Semiotics

Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 5

Posted on January 11, 2025 by Jon Awbrey

Inquiry and Inference If we follow Dewey’s “Sign of Rain” story far enough to consider the import of thought for action, we realize the subsequent conduct of the interpreter, progressing up through the natural conclusion of the episode — the … Continue reading →

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Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 4

Posted on January 9, 2025 by Jon Awbrey

Interpretation and Inquiry To illustrate the role of sign relations in inquiry we begin with Dewey’s elegant and simple example of reflective thinking in everyday life. A man is walking on a warm day.  The sky was clear the last … Continue reading →

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Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 3

Posted on January 8, 2025 by Jon Awbrey

The following selection from Peirce’s “Lowell Lectures on the Logic of Science” (1866) lays out in detail his “metaphorical argument” for the relationship between interpreters and interpretant signs. I think we need to reflect upon the circumstance that every word implies … Continue reading →

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Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 2

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Jon Awbrey

A idea of what Peirce means by an Interpretant and the part it plays in a triadic sign relation is given by the following passage. It is clearly indispensable to start with an accurate and broad analysis of the nature … Continue reading →

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Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 1

Posted on January 6, 2025 by Jon Awbrey

Questions about the relationship between “interpreters” and “interpretants” in Peircean semiotics have broken out again.  To put the matter as pointedly as possible — because I know someone or other is bound to — “In a theory of three‑place relations … Continue reading →

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Riffs and Rotes • Happy New Year 2025

Posted on January 1, 2025 by Jon Awbrey

No information is lost by dropping the terminal 1s.  Thus we may write the following form. The article linked below tells how forms of that sort correspond to a family of digraphs called riffs and a family of graphs called … Continue reading →

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Information = Comprehension × Extension • Comment 7

Posted on October 28, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Let’s stay with Peirce’s example of inductive inference a little longer and try to clear up the more troublesome confusions tending to arise. Figure 2 shows the implication ordering of logical terms in the form of a lattice diagram. Figure … Continue reading →

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Information = Comprehension × Extension • Comment 6

Posted on October 23, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Information = Comprehension × Extension • Comment 2 Returning to Peirce’s example of inductive inference, let’s try to get a clearer picture of why he connects it with disjunctive terms and indicial signs.  At this point in time I … Continue reading →

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Information = Comprehension × Extension • Comment 5

Posted on October 16, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Let’s stay with Peirce’s example of abductive inference a little longer and try to clear up the more troublesome confusions tending to arise. Figure 1 shows the implication ordering of logical terms in the form of a lattice diagram. Figure … Continue reading →

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Information = Comprehension × Extension • Comment 4

Posted on October 14, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Information = Comprehension × Extension • Comment 3 Many things still puzzle me about Peirce’s account at this point.  The question marks I added to the Figures of the previous post indicate the node labels I have remaining doubts … Continue reading →

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