CSP = well, you know ...
GF = Gary Fuhrman
GF: I agree with Jon, and I think the first Peirce quote that JR includes in
his paper pretty well
justifies the remark that 90% of his "*philosophical* output" is directly
concerned with semiotic.
The only thing that makes it a bit odd is that it represents a
retrospective relabelling on Peirce's
part. If the claim were that 90% of his philosophical work is concerned
with logic (in the broad sense),
hardly anybody would balk at that. But it was only late in his career that
Peirce began to use the term
"semiotic" (however we spell it) and identified logic with it. So it's a
bit like JR's claim that his
1867 "New List" is the basic text on his "phenomenology" even though Peirce
didn't use that term for
it until 1902; but in the case of "semiotic" we have a stronger textual
mandate for applying the
term retroactively.
Yes, Peirce's definition of "logic" as formal semiotic, along
with his definition of "formal" definitely come into play here.
CSP: Logic will here be defined as formal semiotic. A definition of a sign will
be
given which no more refers to human thought than does the definition of a
line
as the place which a particle occupies, part by part, during a lapse of
time.
Namely, a sign is something, A, which brings something, B, its
interpretant sign
determined or created by it, into the same sort of correspondence with
something, C,
its object, as that in which itself stands to C. It is from this
definition, together
with a definition of "formal", that I deduce mathematically the principles
of logic.
I also make a historical review of all the definitions and conceptions of
logic, and
show, not merely that my definition is no novelty, but that my
non-psychological
conception of logic has virtually been quite generally held, though not
generally
recognized. (C.S. Peirce, NEM 4, 20–21).
CSP: http://mywikibiz.com/Sign_relation#Definition
Regards,
Jon
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