Hugo, list I haven’t had time read your paper and therefore,am only commenting at the moment based on your abstract, but I do quibble with a few of your comments.
1] I don’t consider that the Pericean doctrine is incomplete - I think he explains the semeiotic process very well. I think one has to look beyond the terms which are subject to our own linguistic barriers - and understand his meanings, which are, I think, very well explained with his examples. I have been using the terms of ’input/mediation/ output' and also, explaining the process as a function of f(x)=y for well over two decades. I don’t consider these as an addition to the Peircean terms of Object/Representamen/Interpretant - but simply different terms for the SAME Process. And certainly, I consider that Peirce was a pansemiotician - ie- semeoisis operates at the physic-chemical, biological and societal levels. And the six correlates of Dynamic Object; Immediate Object; Representamen - and Immediate, Dynamic and Final Interpretant have been outlined very well by Robert Marty. 2] The problem, as I see it, is that when one uses different terms for the Peircean framework - people on this list get very upset and immediately react with “Peirce didn’t use that word!..and so on..as if the Peircean texts were some kind of Revealed Truths from god..The point is- I think, to understand what Peirce was outlining - and this goes beyond the barriers of linguistic terms. Edwina Taborsky > On Jun 15, 2025, at 5:15 AM, Hugo F. Alrøe <[email protected]> wrote: > > List, Cécile > > The paper on the six types of sign action that I mentioned on the list a > little while ago has now been published online in Semiotica. The paper is > open access, and I have included a link and the abstract below. > > As I write in the paper, I am thankful for inspiration from Peirce-L over the > years and in particular for the spiral-shaped drawing of the triadic sign in > semiosis provided by Cécile Cosculluela in the thread “Graphical > Representations of the Sign by Peirce,” January 2024, which inspired my > depiction of a "mediating representation" in the paper. > > All the best, > Hugo > > Alrøe, Hugo F. (2025) The six types of sign action. Semiotica. > https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2024-0112 > > Abstract > The Peircean doctrine of signs is incomplete. This paper rethinks the > standard model of sign action to provide a common framework for analyzing all > the different kinds of semiotic processes, including the workings of thinking > creatures, sentient beings, single cell organisms, social systems, and > sciences. Through a detailed theoretical analysis, the paper shows how we can > separate mediation (featuring the steps: source, mediator, and outcome) from > representation (featuring the conventional sign correlates: object, sign, and > interpretant) in Peircean semiotics and combine the two to establish a > general model of sign action. This leads to the fundamental and, in a > Peircean context, somewhat controversial ideas that there are not two but > three dynamical sign correlates and, notably, that there is not one direction > of mediation in the sign triad, but six directions, which constitute six > fundamental types of sign action: perceiving, acting, interpreting, > expressing, sensing, and reacting. The sixfold model of sign action is a step > toward a general theory of semiosis, it promises to reconcile the split in > biosemiotics, and it provides a coherent semiotic foundation for a general > theory of observation in science. Chiefly, it offers a workable framework for > semiotics. > > -- > Hugo F. Alrøe, PhD > Email: hugo.f.alroe \at/ gmail.com <http://gmail.com/> > Web: hugo.alroe.dk <https://hugo.alroe.dk/>_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > ARISBE: THE PEIRCE GATEWAY is now at > https://cspeirce.com and, just as well, at > https://www.cspeirce.com . It'll take a while to repair / update all the > links! > ► PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to [email protected] . > ► To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message NOT to PEIRCE-L but to [email protected] with > UNSUBSCRIBE PEIRCE-L in the SUBJECT LINE of the message and nothing in the > body. More at https://list.iu.edu/sympa/help/user-signoff.html . > ► PEIRCE-L is owned by THE PEIRCE GROUP; moderated by Gary Richmond; and > co-managed by him and Ben Udell.
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