Jeff D., Jon,
I'd just like to note that the questions of triads versus trichotomies
is something that we've discussed a number of times at peirce-l over the
years. For my part, I like using those words in the way that Jon and
others have recommended - 'triad' for the triadically related sign,
object, interpretant, which are involved as the correlates in genuinely
triadic action, and 'trichotomy' for three-fold classifications,
especially categorially correlated ones such as qualisign, sinsign,
legisign. However, it should be noted that there are passages in which
Peirce calls trichotomies 'triads', and other passages by Peirce that
make no sense unless one follows the 'triad'-versus-'trichotomy'
distinction. I don't have the quotes handy but we've been over it many
times. A separate issue is the one about whether the
sign-object-interpretant triad is also categorially correlated trichotomy.
Best, Ben
On 10/1/2014 11:10 PM, Jeffrey Brian Downard wrote:
Hello Jon,
If you have links to the earlier discussions of the distinction between "triadicities"
and "trichotomies", I'd like to take a look. In addition to being interested in
distinction you are making, I'd like to read more about how you are thinking about the projection
of the triadic relations onto the mutually exclusive and exhaustive partitions of a domain.
In his monograph <Reading Peirce Reading>, Richard Smyth makes much of the conceptions of
the restrictions and limitations that apply to a given domain of inquiry. I'd like to see how
your account of the partitions of the domain compares to his reconstruction of some arguments
Peirce develops in "How to Make Our Ideas Clear."
Thanks,
Jeff
Jeff Downard
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
NAU
(o) 523-8354
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