Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: de Waal Seminar: Chapter 5. Semeiotics, or the Doctrine of Signs

2014-03-25 Thread Edwina Taborsky
Vinicius, I also don't see how all signs must be hypostatic abstractions, for doesn't that assume, as you point out, the existence of almost, a final or even, a dynamic interpretant? Doesn't the internal immediate interpretant, which is a part of the sign, eg, that alien message, or that

[PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:5623] Re: What kind of sign is a gene?

2014-03-25 Thread Sungchul Ji
Ulysses asked: Could you elaborate on the connection you see(5623-1) between context and arbitrariness? All I was trying to say was that the meaning of a sign is not just the function of the sign itself(with all its elaborate structures described by Peirce) but also of the