Cf: Icon Index Symbol • 20 http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/01/11/icon-index-symbol-20/
Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed For Signs ======================================================== Re: FB | Semiotics, Books, Links, News • Jon Awbrey • Dalibor Lošťák https://www.facebook.com/groups/373930009449106/permalink/1856066764568749 JA: Icon, Index, Symbol and all other classifications are ideal types abstracted from concrete signs and there are no pure types in actual existence. However, it is a consequence of triadic relation irreducibility that symbols are in a genuine sense the generic type while icons and indices are specializations or so-called “degenerate” cases. DL: I think the first sentence answers the question brilliantly. However, I disagree with your assertion about the “degenerate cases”. It is my understanding that iconicity is the aspect of a sign that represents its Firstness, which is incapable of degeneracy. This also leads me to the notion that fully degenerate Thirdness, as applied to a Symbol, is not an Icon. I would be very interested to read your thoughts on this. Dear Dalibor, The way I see Categories applying to Peirce's logic and semiotics may be gleaned from the following Survey page. • Survey of Precursors Of Category Theory https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/09/20/survey-of-precursors-of-category-theory-2/ The series beginning with the following post might be a good place to start. • Peirce's Categories • 1 https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2015/10/30/peirces-categories-1/ Regards, Jon
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