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Sign Relations • Denotation
One aspect of a sign’s complete meaning concerns the reference a sign has to its objects, which objects are collectively known as the denotation of the sign. In the pragmatic theory of sign relations,...
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Sign Relations • Connotation
Another aspect of a sign’s complete meaning concerns the reference a sign has to its interpretants, which interpretants are collectively known as the connotation of the sign. In the pragmatic theory...
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Sign Relations • Ennotation
A third aspect of a sign’s complete meaning concerns the relation between its objects and its interpretants, which has no standard name in semiotics. It would be called an induced relation in graph...
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Sign Relations • Semiotic Equivalence Relations 1
A semiotic equivalence relation (SER) is a special type of equivalence relation arising in the analysis of sign relations. Generally speaking, any equivalence relation induces a partition of the...
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Sign Relations • Semiotic Equivalence Relations 2
A few items of notation are useful in discussing equivalence relations in general and semiotic equivalence relations in particular. In general, if is an equivalence relation on a set then every element...
View ArticleTone Token Type • Discussion 1
Re: FB | Daniel Everett DE: People who believe that Peirce’s terms firstness, secondness, and thirdness are complicated might have overlooked the fact that they almost certainly already use two of the...
View ArticleSign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory • 1
To understand how signs work in Peirce’s theory of triadic sign relations, or “semiotics”, we have to understand, in order of increasing generality, sign relations, triadic relations, and relations in...
View ArticleSign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory • 2
I always have trouble deciding whether to start with the genus and drive down to the species or begin with concrete examples and accompany Sisyphus up Mt. Abstraction. To start at the wide end of the...
View ArticleSign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory • 3
The middle ground between relations in general and the sign relations informing logic, inquiry, and communication is occupied by triadic relations, also called ternary or 3‑place relations. Triadic...
View ArticleSign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory • 4
For ease of reference, here are two variants of Peirce’s 1902 definition of a sign, which he gives in the process of defining logic. Selections from C.S. Peirce, “Carnegie Application” (1902) No. 12....
View ArticleSign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory • Discussion 12
Re: Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory • 1 A note from a longtime correspondent points out a search of the available texts turns up no use of the plural form “semiotics” by Peirce and...
View ArticleSurvey of Differential Logic • 7
This is a Survey of work in progress on Differential Logic, resources under development toward a more systematic treatment. Differential logic is the component of logic whose object is the description...
View ArticleSurvey of Theme One Program • 6
This is a Survey of blog and wiki posts relating to the Theme One Program I worked on all through the 1980s. The aim was to develop fundamental algorithms and data structures for integrating empirical...
View ArticleSurvey of Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 4
This is a Survey of blog and wiki posts on three elementary forms of inference, as recognized by a logical tradition extending from Aristotle through Charles S. Peirce. Particular attention is paid to...
View ArticleSurvey of Inquiry Driven Systems • 6
This is a Survey of work in progress on Inquiry Driven Systems, material I plan to refine toward a more compact and systematic treatment of the subject. An inquiry driven system is a system having...
View ArticleBeing In Time
I need to be in the state I’m in. I need to dwell on the indwelling. I need to unpack the original source, Too long hidebound by habit of force.
View ArticleSurvey of Pragmatic Semiotic Information • 8
This is a Survey of blog and wiki posts on a theory of information which grows out of pragmatic semiotic ideas. All my projects are exploratory in character but this line of inquiry is more open‑ended...
View ArticlePragmatic Semiotic Information • 1
Information • What’s it good for? The good of information is its use in reducing our uncertainty about an issue which comes before us. But uncertainty comes in many flavors and so the information...
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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • 2
What is information that a sign may bear it? Three more questions arise at this juncture. How is a sign empowered to contain information? What is the practical context of communication? Why do we care...
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Pragmatic Semiotic Information • 3
Where is information bred? In reality or in its stead? The way signs enter the scene is shown in Figure 2. The Figure illustrates a scene of uncertainty which has been augmented by a classification....
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