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.
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