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}Gary R, list - and I don't see how the outline of the semiosic
process can't be understood as a function. At each 'instance' of
semiosis, there is a single output; but the semiosic process is not
isolate but productive - a
Edwina, Helmut, Gary f, list,]
Lowell 3.13: "A representamen is a subject of a triadic relation *to* a
Second, called its *Object*, *for* a Third, called its *Interpretant*,
this triadic relation being such that the Representamen determines its
Interpretant to stand in the same triadic relation
Helmut, list - yes, I agree. The semiosic process, the triadic Sign,
is a function. It fits in exactly: f(x)=y. Or representamen
[transforms the sensate data of the Object] into an Interpretant[s].
And yes, this consists of other functions, since no Sign, exists
alone but is net
Gary, List,
I have made up a way of seeing "sign" as synonym with "representamen": A sign consisting of sign, object, interpretant is possible, because this kind of "consisting" is a functional composition (A sign is a function, consisting of other functions), which is different from a spatial co
