Frances to Michael and others...
There are a few key terms used by Peirce that might impact on an
appreciation of what he would have defined as what you call
mental mapping, which is understood by me to be the way mind
correlates or links its own images or ideas or thoughts together
with other internal images or ideas or thoughts, or with other
external objects. Under a theory of psychological subjectivism
these kinds of mental acts might also be called imagined visions,
and ideated notions, and stated nominations like oral mentions
and literal notations. Some of the Peircean terms culled from his
pragmatist and semiotic jargon that seem relevant to mental
mapping and as coached in my paraphrasing include: phenomenal
consciousness, mental actions, collateral experiences, paradigm
beliefs, collected impressions, connected correlates, quincuncial
projections, existential graphs, logical relations, theoretical
relativities, semiotic representations, iconic hypoicons,
apparent images, infinite continuities, habitual familiarities,
referent identities, formal similarities, and immediate
interpretants. My search in the Peircean literature however will
continue, to at least satisfy my own curiosity on how he accounts
for the link between mental things like images and ideas and
thoughts, with either others of the same or with objects outside
the mind.
