Category Archives: Sign Relations

Sign Relations • Signs and Inquiry

Posted on February 9, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

There is a close relationship between the pragmatic theory of signs and the pragmatic theory of inquiry.  In fact, the correspondence between the two studies exhibits so many congruences and parallels it is often best to treat them as integral … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations • Definition

Posted on February 8, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

One of Peirce’s clearest and most complete definitions of a sign is one he gives in the context of providing a definition for logic, and so it is informative to view it in that setting. Logic will here be defined … Continue reading →

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Sign Relations • Anthesis

Posted on February 7, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Thus, if a sunflower, in turning towards the sun, becomes by that very act fully capable, without further condition, of reproducing a sunflower which turns in precisely corresponding ways toward the sun, and of doing so with the same reproductive … Continue reading →

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Interpreter and Interpretant • Discussion 4

Posted on February 6, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 4 Re: Conceptual Graphs • Tom Gollier Tom, Another discussion coming to mind is one we had on this subject in 2016.  Once again I’ll save a measure of strain on my brain by … Continue reading →

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Interpreter and Interpretant • Discussion 3

Posted on February 5, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 4 Re: Conceptual Graphs • Tom Gollier TG: Given your diagram of Dewey’s example, I don’t see how the event of rain can be the object (O).  The objects seem more clearly to be … Continue reading →

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Interpreter and Interpretant • Discussion 2

Posted on February 3, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 1 Re: Laws of Form • Lyle Anderson LA: You can not find “ground” in Aristotle.  If the past three years have shown us anything it is that his assertion: But the mental affections … Continue reading →

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Interpreter and Interpretant • Discussion 1

Posted on February 1, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Conceptual Graphs • Helmut Raulien   HR: I find it a bit problematic to say, that the sign determines the interpretant, because the sign doesn’t infer, it is the interpreter, who does the inference.  But ok, I guess we … Continue reading →

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Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 4

Posted on January 31, 2024 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 30, 2024 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 28, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

In the next passage up for review the hypostatic abstraction of a person to conduct the movement of signs is described by Peirce as a Sop to Cerberus, a rhetorical gambit set to side‑step a persistent difficulty of exposition. It … Continue reading →

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