I'd like to ask Frederik about the role of what I consider a basic Peircean Sign, the Rhematic Indexical Legisign. This triad operates within all three categorical modes; it's in the centre, so to speak, of the ten classes.
I see it as important because of the openness of its Interpretation Relation, which is in a mode of Firstness. The Object Relation is in a mode of Secondness, which suggests that indexical or physical contact with the external Dynamic Object. But, unlike the three Dicent Signs, the output or Interpretant Relation is NOT in a mode of Secondness (which would provide us with a specific description of that Dynamic Object)...it's in a mode of Firstness. This is openness, and thus enables and requires (maybe) networking with other Signs to add clarity; it requires collateral experience to come to a specific conclusion. Otherwise, that Sign remains open. The collaterial experience could describe the experience of the object within an empirical factual existence...empirical to the local surroundings. Or, it could even move the object into a mythic nature. So, my individual interpretation of a local sighting of a black object in the sky could, with added facts...be interpreted as a plane. Or, could be interpreted as an Evil Spirit of Dire Warning. ...depending on my networking with other Signs. Edwina
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