Edwina, List: Is it right to say that the nine terms in Peirce's three trichotomies are "triadic relations"? It seems to me that even in your model, they correspond to *dyadic *relations--the Representamen with itself, with its Object, and with its Interpretant. There is only one *triadic *relation in a given Sign, and it is not reducible to these three dyadic relations. In that sense, it is the ten Sign classifications--rather than the nine terms in three trichotomies--that characterize the triadic relation; i.e., a Qualisign has a different triadic relation than a Rhematic Indexical Legisign, which has a different triadic relation than an Argument, etc. On the other hand, in Peirce's later ten-trichotomy scheme, there is a specific division "According to the Triadic Relation of the Sign to its Dynamical Object and to its Normal Interpretant" (CP 8.344; 1908), which is associated with "the Nature of the Assurance of the Utterance: assurance of Instinct; assurance of Experience; assurance of Form" (CP 8.374; 1908).
Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 8:24 AM, Edwina Taborsky <[email protected]> wrote: > Mike - I think you are not alone in not understanding Jerry's post. His > comments on the 9 semiosic relations, which are *triadic relations* and > not triads, was in my view, bizarre and had nothing to do with Peirce's > analysis of their nature. > > With regard to your comment below on names, which are symbols - since > human thought is primarily via symbols - then, in a way, such symbols are > the 'instantiation' of the thought. I'm not sure what you mean by > 'necessary signs'..unless you mean the non-symbolic iconic and indexical > relations. > > Edwina >
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