Gene, List,
I'm hoping and even expecting that for a couple of weeks I won't be
traveling, entertaining houseguests, or having to do several other things
which, taken together, have kept me from responding to your last post
sooner, especially as I was truly enjoying and benefitting from our
Helmut, list,
As luck would have it, I was just now looking through back issues of
Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society online and discovered that
Winfried Nöth himself, in a 2011 article, has covered the same ground as my
post, and answered your question on the origin of the use
Gary, list,
I think, your post is extremely helpful to clear the terms. So it eventually might be agreed, that a Peircean sign is not the triad "representamen-object-interpretant". It is only the representamen, but only, if this representamen is interpreted. In this case it is a sign, and
Peirceans,
In a reply to one of Helmuts posts last week, I quoted a paragraph from one
of Peirces Lowell lectures. When I took a closer look at the context of
that quote, it raised some questions that prompted an inquiry that took me
through several other texts and eventually brought me to a
