Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.13

[Gary Fuhrman]

Section 13 of NP Chapter 3 is of particular interest to those of us who have
struggled with the two objects and three interpretants which Peirce
introduced into his semiotics from 1903 on. This explanation of the
immediate object especially was a revelation to me when I first read it. But
there's a lot here for biosemioticians to ponder as well, and I'd like to
hear from that what people think about the treatment in this section of
relations between perception and cognition, and between the mediate and
immediate experience, which run much deeper than language. The implications
of all this will be explored in subsequent chapters - we start Chapter 4 on
Monday - but the foundation of it all is Peirce's doctrine of the Dicisign
as established in Chapter 3. I hope the 4 weeks we've spent on it have been
enough to lay that foundation in the attentive reader's mind.



gary f.

[Jon Awbrey]

Gary, all,

On the road and only time for a brief note ...

The most important thing to understand about the variety of objects and interpretant signs related to a given sign is that they all fit within the same triadic sign relation L ⊆ O × S × I. In other words, the addition of various new types of objects and interpretants does not require additional relational dimensions beyond three.

Regards,

Jon

http://inquiryintoinquiry.com

Section 13 of NP Chapter 3 is of particular interest to those of us who have struggled with the two objects and three interpretants which Peirce introduced into his semiotics from 1903 on. This explanation of the immediate object especially was a revelation to me when I first read it. But there’s a lot here for biosemioticians to ponder as well, and I’d like to hear from that what people think about the treatment in this section of relations between perception and cognition, and between the mediate and immediate experience, which run much deeper than language. The implications of all this will be explored in subsequent chapters — we start Chapter 4 on Monday — but the foundation of it all is Peirce’s doctrine of the Dicisign as established in Chapter 3. I hope the 4 weeks we’ve spent on it have been enough to lay that foundation in the attentive reader’s mind.
gary f.