Peirce rather notoriously used various terminologies for the three types of interpretants in his late writings on semeiotic. The most commonly discussed variants are emotional/energetic/logical and immediate/dynamic/final, but I am aware of at least five different views in the secondary literature about the relationship between these two.
1. Emotional/energetic/logical is equivalent to immediate/dynamic/final (e.g., Liszka). 2. Emotional/energetic/logical is a species of immediate/dynamic/final (e.g., Lalor). 3. Immediate/dynamic/final are the three types; emotional/energetic/logical are the three divisions of dynamic only (e.g., Ferguson). 4. Immediate/dynamic/final are the three types; emotional/energetic/logical are the three divisions of all of these (e.g., Short). 5. Emotional/energetic/logical are the three types; emotional has no divisions, mental/physical are the two divisions of energetic, and immediate/dynamic/final are the three divisions of logical (e.g., van Breemen & Sarbo). Are there others? Has there been any convergence of opinion among Peirce scholars about this, or is it still a wide-open topic of debate? I discovered #5 today while digging around on the Internet after contemplating the fact that the more firmly established correlate trichotomies (Od => Oi => S) all reflect division in accordance with possible/existent/necessitant, rather than feeling/action/thought. For #3 and #4, is the latter simply taken to be the result of applying the former specifically to an interpretant, rather than to a sign or object? Also, Peirce himself indicated that every sign has an emotional interpretant, every energetic interpretant is produced through the mediation of the emotional interpretant, and every logical interpretant is a still further effect. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt
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