> On Jun 20, 2018, at 12:22 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt <[email protected]> > wrote: > > GF: It’s important to note that Stjernfelt’s definition of the immediate > object is a functional one--the immediate object plays an indexical role > within the functioning of a Dicisign ... > > According to Peirce, this is only true of some Immediate Objects--the > Existent ones for Signs that he classified as Designatives in the late 1908 > taxonomy. Immediate Objects can also be Possibles for Signs that are > Descriptives, or Necessitants for Signs that are Copulatives.
My apologies as I’m just coming back to the list after having too little time to read for quite some time. Are you talking about Stjernfelt’s discussion of natural signs? If so that functional focus would make sense rather than the more general case. But of course you’re completely right that possibles as immediate objects are extremely important.
----------------------------- PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to [email protected] . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L but to [email protected] with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the BODY of the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm .
