Cover
Contents
Introduction
1. Aims and Conclusions
2. Necessary Presuppositions to reach the Conclusion
3. Semiotic Theory and Philosophical Background: The Boundary of the Present Work
4. Temporal Development of Peirce’s Ideas
5. The Standing of the Present Work in the Context of the Research about Peirce
Part I: The Philosophical Foundations of Peirce’s Semiotics
1. Anti-Cartesianism: Every Knowledge is essentially mediated Knowledge
2. Reality, Knowledge and the Establishment of Opinions
3. The Pragmatic Maxim
4. The Question of Universals and the Reality of Generals
5. The Categories and Phenomenology
6. Logic and its Importance for Semiotics
Part II: The System of Peirce’s Semiotics
Chapter 1: The Foundations of Peirce’s Semiotics
1.1. On a New List of Categories: The Cradle of Semiotics
1.2. Semiotics after the New List: Opening New Paths
Chapter 2: The Triadic Structure of Signs
2.1. The Triadic Structure of Signs in General
2.2. Some Particular Aspects of Semiotic Structure: The Ground and the Purpose
2.2.1. Purpose and the Semiotic Triad
2.2.2. The Ground and the Semiotic Triad
Chapter 3: The Essence of the Triadic Structure of Signs: The Role of the Interpretant
3.1. Why does the Semiotic Structure require three Relates? A Justification of the Interpretant
3.2. Interpretant, Purpose and Habit of Action: A Sufficient Explanation?
3.3. Peirce’s Statements about The Interpretant
3.4. An Attempt at a Theoretical Justification
3.4.1. Semiosis as “Standing for” and the Interpretant as a Criterion for Substitution
3.4.2. Why the Criterion for Substitution must be expressed as a Third Correlate: The Meta-theoretical and Theoretical Advantages of Peirce’s Approach
3.4.3. The Function of the Interpretant is to select a Referential Relation: A Comparison with Putnam
3.4.4. Interpretants and Admissible Outcomes of Semiotic Events
3.4.5. Interpretation as Grasping a Potential Outcome Which is essentially dependent on the Sign
3.4.6. Interpretation and Habit-Change again: The Conditions under which a Habit-Change Can be the Interpretant of a Sign are essentially implied by the Sign
3.4.7. Interpretation, Selection of a Ground, Potential Outcomes and Semantic: Does this Account of Interpretant work also for Semantic Issues?
3.4.8. Final Remarks
3.5. Conclusion
Chapter 4: Interlude: The Classification of Signs in Peirce’s Later Semiotic
Chapter 5: Icons in Peirce’s later Semiotics
5.1. Nature and Functions of Icons
5.1.1. Nature and Functions of Icons: General Consideration
5.1.2. Difficulties with the Concept of Icon
5.1.3. Underdetermination as an essential Feature of Icons. The Class of possible Objects and the Self-Reference of Icons
5.1.4. Again on the Difficulties with the Concept of Icons: Kinds of Icon and the Problem of Conventions
5.2. Two Views on Peirce’s Icons
5.2.1. Iconicity as a Non-Distinction between the Sign and the Object
5.2.2. Advantages and Flaws of this Interpretation
5.2.3. The Issue of Reference and the Attempt to reduce Icons to Symbols
5.3. Conclusion
Chapter 6: The Index
6.1. Nature and Functions of Indices
6.2. The Index as Instruction
6.3. Indices and Indexical Terms
6.4. Indexical Terms and descriptive Content: Indices and Icons
6.5. Indices and Sense: Traceability as the Main Feature of Indices
6.6. Indices and the actual World: ‘Blind’ Secondness and the Role of Purpositive Processes
Chapter 7: Symbols
7.1. The Nature of Symbols
7.1.1. A new Conception of the Symbolic Ground as ‘Consisting in a Regularity’
7.1.2. The Symbols as distinguished from Icons and Indices
7.1.3. Symbols from a phenomenological Point of View
7.2. Rhematic Symbols
7.2.1. The Nature of Rhematic Symbols
7.2.2. Rhematic Symbol, Icon and Index
7.3. Dicent Symbols
7.3.1. Dicisigns and their Components: The Symbolic Element
7.3.2. Dicisigns and their Components: The Indexical Element
7.3.3. The Fact as Object of the Dicisign
7.3.4. Another Approach to the Object of Dicisigns
7.4. Argument
7.4.1. The Nature of Arguments
7.4.2. Arguments and Dicisigns
Chapter 8: Immediate and Dynamical Object
8.1. Introduction
8.2. Immediate Object and Dynamical Object
8.2.1. The Meaning of the Distinction
8.2.2. Two Conceptions of Reality, and the Place of the Dynamical Object in the Semiotic Process
8.2.3. Dynamical Object and Perception
8.2.4. Dynamical Object and Collateral Experience
8.2.5. Dynamical Objects which are not Existing Individuals
8.3. Kinds of Object: Some Remarks
8.4. Conclusion
Chapter 9: The Different Forms of Interpretant
9.1. Introduction
9.2. The Kinds of Interpretant
9.3. Further Questions; Interpretants and the Teleological Nature of Signs
9.3.1. Purposes and Fields of Interpretability
9.3.2. Horizontal and Vertical Coordination of Interpretants
9.3.3. Ultimate Interpretant and the Ultimate Normative Role of the Reference to an Object
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