Jon, briefly, I don’t see that “the Sign determines the Sign-Object relation,” and I don’t see where Peirce says that it does. What Peirce usually says in his definitions is that the Object determines the Sign to determine the Interpretant. (This does get more complicated when he introduces the dichotomy between Immediate and Dynamic Objects, but this is not mentioned in NDTR.)
There are many variations, such as the beginning of “Speculative Grammar” (EP2:272), where he says that “A Sign, or Representamen, is a First which stands in such a genuine triadic relation to a Second, called its Object, as to be capable of determining a Third, called its Interpretant, to assume the same triadic relation to its Object in which it stands itself to the same Object.” But I have yet to see anyplace where Peirce says or implies that the Sign determines the Sign-Object relation. If you can cite such a place, please do so. And that goes double for your claim that “the Sign-Object relation determines how the Interpretant represents the Sign.” In my view, that is determined by whether the Sign is an Argument, a Dicisign or a Rheme. But again, I’m happy to be corrected if you can show that I’m wrong by citing a Peirce text. Gary f. From: Jon Alan Schmidt [mailto:jonalanschm...@gmail.com] Sent: 16-Apr-17 15:34 To: Gary Fuhrman <g...@gnusystems.ca> Cc: Peirce-L <peirce-l@list.iupui.edu> Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Dyadic relations within the triadic Gary F., List: As I see it, #11 is the main sticking point ... GF: My contrary claim is that the order in which trichotomies are listed has nothing to do with the order of determination that applies to correlates, and if Peirce had chosen to list them in the order I did, this would make absolutely no difference to the tenfold classification of signs. ... because to me, it contradicts #7. GF: However the overlapping is constrained by the order of determination, so that (for instance) the same sign cannot be both a sinsign and an argument. The order of determination does not apply only to correlates, it applies to all of the divisions for classifying Signs. In particular, the Sign determines the Sign-Object relation, which determines how the Interpretant represents the Sign. As I emphasized when I quoted it, the order of the three trichotomies in CP 2.243 is not random or inconsequential. For example, if it were switched to your order, an Argument could be a Qualisign, and a Legisign could not be an Icon; but these conclusions are inconsistent with the ten classes that Peirce went on to identify. As for #12 ... GF: As I said above, there is no “Object trichotomy” or “Interpretant trichotomy” in NDTR. This is true--but if there had been, the order of determination would have been Interpretant, Object, Sign in accordance with CP 2.235-238. By 1908, the order of determination was instead (two) Objects, Sign, (three) Interpretants. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt <http://www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt> - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt <http://twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt>
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