Agreed. As I've said, I don't agree with confining the term 'sign' to refer to
and only to one single Relation in the whole triad; that of the Representamen
or ground. That transforms this one Relation, the Representamen, from being the
vital mediative action in a full process and makes it into almost a Sovereign
Will Agent. Such a privileging and reductionism ignores that a Sign (full
triad) functions and can only function not within one Relation but within three
Relations, and furthermore - as that full triadic process, the Sign emerges
within the semiosic process and takes on an existential material nature. So,
that full triad, the Sign, functions and exists as a molecule, a cell, a
weathervane, a word, an argument.
Edwina
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From: CLARK GOBLE
To: PEIRCE-L
Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 11:17 PM
Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] signs, correlates and triadic relations
On Nov 26, 2015, at 7:44 AM, Edwina Taborsky <[email protected]> wrote:
Again, Peirce uses the term of 'sign' to refer to both the Representamen
and the full triadic set of relations. You have to be careful of the context to
figure out which one he is referring to.
This is definitely true and can throw one off. I sometimes try to use the
term token rather than sign to refer to the sign-term to distinguish it from
the object and interpretant. Although that has its own difficulties. (It tends
to bias people toward visual signs)
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