List: My paper has now been published officially in *Semiotica*, volume 2022, issue 246, pp. 211-223.
Regards, Jon S. On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 1:43 PM Jon Alan Schmidt <jonalanschm...@gmail.com> wrote: > List: > > The subject line is the title of my paper that has just been published > online by *Semiotica* (https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2020-0115) and will > presumably appear in an upcoming issue of that journal. Here is the > abstract. > > The semeiotic of Charles Sanders Peirce is irreducibly triadic, positing > that a sign mediates between the object that determines it and the > interpretant that it determines. He eventually holds that each sign has two > objects and three interpretants, standardizing quickly on immediate and > dynamical (or real) for the objects but experimenting with a variety of > names for the interpretants. The two most prominent terminologies are > immediate/dynamical/final and emotional/ energetic/logical, and scholars > have long debated how they are related to each other. This paper seeks to > shed new light on the matter by reviewing the numerous manuscript drafts > where Peirce develops the latter nomenclature while attempting to introduce > his pragmatism to a general audience. It then goes on to examine an > additional set of interpretants, intentional/effectual/communicational, and > shows that the three different trichotomies can be understood as > complementary, rather than redundant or conflicting. > > > I previously concurred with T. L. Short's view that the first two > trichotomies are orthogonal to each other--immediate, dynamical, and final > interpretants as possible, actual, and habitual effects of signs are > divisible into emotional, energetic, and logical interpretants as feelings, > actions/exertions, and thoughts/signs. However, careful study of the > multiple drafts for "Pragmatism" (R 318-322&324, 1907), the only texts > where Peirce employs the terminology of emotional/energetic/logical > interpretants, convinced me that James Liszka and Brendan Lalor are > correct after all--they are the familiar manifestations of > immediate/dynamical/final interpretants in concrete human semiosis, which > we experience as "modifications of consciousness" (R 318:308-309[50-51], > CP 5.485, EP 2:411). Moreover, a logical interpretant can be a mere > apprehension, another sign as a verbal definition, or (ultimately) a > general mental habit--thus corresponding to the first, second, or third > grade of clearness in accordance with Peirce's pragmat(ic)ism. > > Turning to his March 1906 letter to Lady Welby (EP 2:478), it seems fairly > straightforward to identify the effectual interpretant, as a determination > of the mind of the interpreter, with the dynamical interpretant. However, I > continue to disagree with the general consensus on aligning the intentional > and communicational interpretants with the immediate and final > interpretants, respectively. I maintain instead that the intentional > interpretant, as a determination of the mind of the utterer, is a dynamical > interpretant of a *previous *sign of the same object; while the > communicational interpretant, as a determination of the commind into which > the minds of the utterer and interpreter are fused or welded by the sign > itself, is the immediate interpretant that is *internal *to that sign. > The final interpretant is absent from this passage because it is the *telos > *or ideal aim of semiosis, and the phenomenon being discussed is a > discrete event prescinded from that continuous process. > > Regards, > > Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA > Structural Engineer, Synechist Philosopher, Lutheran Christian > www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt / twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt >
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