Evgenii, lists, I would say that 'Gun Country' is a dicisign.
Although I've haven't delved into it deeply, in Tony Jappy's book,* Introduction to Peircean Visual Semiotics, *one finds a test Peirce gives of what may count as a dicisign as a footnote in chapter 6, one of the places in the book where Jappy discusses the dicisign (206, n. 10). I've provided the full paragraph of the Peirce quotation of which Jappy gives only the first three sentences which I've put in italics. *The readiest characteristic test showing whether a sign is a Dicisign or not is that a Dicisign is either true or false, but does not directly furnish reasons for its being so. This shows that a Dicisign must profess to refer or relate to something as having a real being independently of the representation of it as such, and further that this reference or relation must not be shown as rational, but must appear as a blind Secondness. But the only kind of sign whose object is necessarily existent is the genuine Index.* This Index might, indeed, be a part of a Symbol; but in that case the relation would appear as rational. Consequently a Dicisign necessarily represents itself to be a genuine Index, and to be nothing more. At this point let us discard all other considerations, and see what sort of sign a sign must be that in any way represents itself to be a genuine Index of its Object, and nothing more. Substituting for "represents to be" a clearer interpretation, the statement is that the Dicisign's Interpretant represents an identity of the Dicisign with a genuine Index of the Dicisign's real Object. That is, the Interpretant represents a real existential relation or genuine Secondness, as subsisting between the Dicisign and its real Object. But the Interpretant of a Sign can represent no other Object than that of the Sign itself. Hence this same existential relation must be an Object of the Dicisign, if the latter have any real Object. This represented existential relation, in being an Object of the Dicisign, makes that real Object, which is correlate of this relation, also an Object of the Dicisign. CP 2.310 Having read that, what do you (and others think)? Is "Gun Country" a dicisign? Best, Gary R *Gary Richmond* *Philosophy and Critical Thinking* *Communication Studies* *LaGuardia College of the City University of New York* *C 745* *718 482-5690* On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi <use...@rudnyi.ru> wrote: > A question to better understand what dicisign is. Can one say that Gun > Country by Michael Murphy is a dicisign? > > http://www.artprize.org/michael-murphy/2014/gun-country > > Best wishes, > > Evgenii > > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to > peirce-L@list.iupui.edu . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L > but to l...@list.iupui.edu with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the > BODY of the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm > . > > > > > >
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