Agreed. As I've said, I don't agree with confining the term 'sign' to refer to and only to one single Relation in the whole triad; that of the Representamen or ground. That transforms this one Relation, the Representamen, from being the vital mediative action in a full process and makes it into almost a Sovereign Will Agent. Such a privileging and reductionism ignores that a Sign (full triad) functions and can only function not within one Relation but within three Relations, and furthermore - as that full triadic process, the Sign emerges within the semiosic process and takes on an existential material nature. So, that full triad, the Sign, functions and exists as a molecule, a cell, a weathervane, a word, an argument.
Edwina ----- Original Message ----- From: CLARK GOBLE To: PEIRCE-L Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 11:17 PM Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] signs, correlates and triadic relations On Nov 26, 2015, at 7:44 AM, Edwina Taborsky <tabor...@primus.ca> wrote: Again, Peirce uses the term of 'sign' to refer to both the Representamen and the full triadic set of relations. You have to be careful of the context to figure out which one he is referring to. This is definitely true and can throw one off. I sometimes try to use the term token rather than sign to refer to the sign-term to distinguish it from the object and interpretant. Although that has its own difficulties. (It tends to bias people toward visual signs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------- 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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