> On Jun 8, 2016, at 2:22 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > In semiosis <http://gnusystems.ca/TS/tpx.htm#trax> (the process of meaning), > there is no sign without an interpretant, no interpretant without an object, > no object without a sign. But in this ‘cooperation of three subjects,’ the > reality of the one functioning as object is independent of its correlation > with the other two cooperating subjects, the sign and its interpretant. The > object and the interpretant are ‘the two correlates of the sign; the one > being antecedent, the other consequent of the sign’ (Peirce, EP2:410) – but > the reality of the correlation (experienced as the activity of meaning) does > not constitute the reality of the object. ‘Reality is simply the character of > being independent of what is thought concerning the real object’ (EP2:271).
It’s worth adding that reality for Peirce would itself still be a process of semiosis just a semiosis that arrives at a stable development (habit).
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