Edwina, Jon,

Well, I couldn't possibly have said it better, Edwina. Jon, I agree--it's a
very nice diagram indeed.

Best,

Gary

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On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Edwina Taborsky <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hmm - rather interesting...Actually- very, very nice.
>
> What I like about it is the networking. No sign, eg, the triad, exists
> 'per se' on its own; it's always networked with other signs, both near and
> far - and even - parts/nodes of other signs. And I like the nested
> complexity, with each part interacting, adding to..other parts.
>
> So, I like your Immediate. Object-connection to the Immediate
> Interpretant. BOTH are internal, and you've connected them...with the
> mediation of the Representamen in between. A kind of internal semiosic act.
>
> Then, you've expanded the network with the external realm -  the Dynamic
> Object linked with the Dynamic Interpretant, again, with the mediation of
> the Representamen. An external semiosic act, with the internal nested
> within it. Very nice...
>
> And, your Final Interpretant linked with the Representamen...AND with the
> external Dynamic Object.  Very nice...
>
> It's an active, complex and evolving interaction.....Really- very well
> done.
>
> Edwina
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Jon Alan Schmidt <[email protected]>
> *To:* Gary Richmond <[email protected]> ; [email protected]
> *Cc:* Peirce-L <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Monday, August 24, 2015 5:53 PM
> *Subject:* [PEIRCE-L] Semeiotic Visualization
>
> Gary, Edwina, List:
>
> Since the subject came up ...
>
> Last week, while wrestling with the three interpretants and their proper
> order of determination, I was playing around with some speculative
> diagrams--not of the Peircean triad, but of the ten trichotomies.  I ended
> up with this as a rough first pass.
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
> The correlates are points, the dyadic relations are lines, and the triadic
> relations are planes; except that the bottom of the tetrahedron consists
> entirely of signs, all of which are in the same causal relation to the
> dynamic object as described by Hulswit--formal (necessary condition) for
> icons, efficient for indexes, or final for symbols.  The immediate object
> and interpretant are closely bound to the sign itself.  The dynamic
> interpretant tends toward the final interpretant.
>
> Thoughts?  Please be gentle ...
>
> Jon
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Gary Richmond <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> ET: Just a brief comment - Nadin uses the triangle as an image for the
>> Peircean triad - and I consider this a problem. The image of the triangle
>> is closed and linear; the best image for the Peircean triad is the one
>> Peirce himself used: (1.347), the three-spoked umbrella. It's not linear;
>> it's interactive; it enables, importantly, networking...for no Peircean
>> sign exists on its own; it's always networked.
>>
>>
>> I myself don't have that much of a problem with this use of the triangle.
>> For one thing, Peirce *does* use the triangle, notably in the famous
>> Welby diagram, to show triadic relations in semiotics. Granted, these are
>> analytically 'frozen' relations, so speak, but they are quite convenient in
>> certain cases. Indeed they can, as in the Welby diagram, reveal information
>> wjocj other diagrammatic techniques wouldn't show as well (for example, the
>> central trikon which you have occasionally referred to in the Welby
>> diagram; and there are other relations the Welby triangle reveals). But I
>> agree with you that for many purposes the three-pronged figure is "more
>> iconic" than the triangle.
>>
>> But, just to argue this a bit further, draw three lines from the vertices
>> of an equilateral triangle to its center and you have the three-spoked
>> figure. This is to say that the triangle implies the three-spokes, while a
>> particular abstracted diagram may not require it. So, again, and in a word,
>> I don't think one need insist on the three-spoked figure in all instances.
>> But I would tend to agree with you that for many purposes (beyond certain
>> analytical ones such as the classification of sign types) that the
>> three-spoked figure is preferable for the reasons you gave.
>>
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