Cecile
I think the spiral is an interesting image of the dynamic nature of the
semiosic process - The reality of semiosis is as a transformative process,
where energy/matter is constantly being transformed into another form of
energy/matter, via the mediating Representamen - In other words - it’s not a
static ‘OK- I’ve got the meaning’ state’; It’s dynamic and transformative.
I’ve understood this process as a function : f(x)=y. Or…R(O)=I. The point is,
to acknowledge the transformative actions of the mediative Representamen within
the triadic process.
My question to you, however, is how do you introduce, as an image, in this
spiral, the fact that other triads are affecting each other. That is. If you
take one triad, with the Y form of
O I
\/
|
R
Excuse my sloppy image above, I’m useless at computer drawings...but you get
the triadic relations…Well, my point is that you can have another triad
connecting to the O, and another connecting with the I and the R…..
That is, you can have this Y form….and the Object Relation could be, in another
triad, the Interpretant. The Interpretant could be moving into becoming
another R in another triad.
How does one show this complexity? In my view, it’s the dynamic processing and
the complexity that is the basis of Peircean semiosis.
Edwina
> On Jan 5, 2024, at 5:04 PM, Cécile Cosculluela
> <cecile.coscullu...@univ-pau.fr> wrote:
>
> Edwina, List,
>
> I appreciate your clarifying comments and I am thankful also for the
> enriching references that have been shared. Interesting though it might be to
> distinguish the sign as a representamen (or first correlate of a triadic
> relation) from the (quasi-)sign (or Sign) as a triadic relation (that
> includes a first, a second, and a third correlate without whose triadic
> relation there is no sign), it is useful to me to be able to draw a graphical
> representation of the sign, and then of the semiosis, i.e. the continuum of
> signs. I have been using the Y diagram since my doctoral dissertation
> (http://tinyurl.com/Semiotraductologie) and little by little over the years
> the Y turned into a spiral. Here are the five steps that stand out (I'm also
> sending them in an attached document in case the diagrams don't come across
> well in the email):
>
> <image.png>
>
> <image.png>
>
> <image.png>
>
> <image.png>
>
> <image.png>
>
> <image.png>
>
> I would love to hear what you think about this graphical representation of
> the triadic sign as a spiral. Please let me know!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Cécile
>
> Cécile Cosculluela
> MC anglais UPPA ∗ SSH ∗ LEA
> Maître de Conférences en Etudes Anglophones
> Associate Professor of English as a Second Language
> Semiotics • Linguistics • Grammar • Translation
> <LogoUPPA.jpg>
>
> De: "Edwina Taborsky" <edwina.tabor...@gmail.com
> <mailto:edwina.tabor...@gmail.com>>
> À: "Cécile Menieu-Cosculluela" <cecile.coscullu...@univ-pau.fr
> <mailto:cecile.coscullu...@univ-pau.fr>>
> Cc: "Peirce-L" <peirce-l@list.iupui.edu <mailto:peirce-l@list.iupui.edu>>
> Envoyé: Vendredi 5 Janvier 2024 21:24:59
> Objet: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Graphical Representations of the Sign by Peirce
>
> Cecile - I understand the reference by Peirce to a ‘quasi -sign, which is the
> wider reference to the triadic process, but I think one can talk oneself into
> a dead end.
>
> The reality is, from examining the many discussions within Peirce, that the
> triad, which he refers to as a Sign, [ see Letter to William James 1909
> 8.305] functions within three relations [in itself, with the object, as the
> Interpretant] ..That is, the Sign exists as a triadic function. It doesn’t
> exist except as a triad.
>
> Then, you can analytically ’take apart’ this triadic function into
> Object-Representamen/sign-Interpretant.
> And you can analyze that mediating process, known as the Representamen or
> sign….you can analyze it just within itself, all alone [ but it doesn’t exist
> as such all alone]...within the three modal categories and come up with this
> representamen/sign as a Qualisign, Sinsign, or Legisign.
>
> Then - you can analyze the relations as well within the modal categories.
> See an outline of the basic ten classes in 2.255 etc.
>
> ALL of this is, in my view, is just a further analysis of the basic triad,
> the Sign, “as a triadic form’ [1909].
>
> But I think it’s a mistake to get trapped in terms.
>
> Edwina
>
> On Jan 5, 2024, at 2:56 PM, Cécile Cosculluela
> <cecile.coscullu...@univ-pau.fr> wrote:
>
> Jon, Edwina, John, List,
>
> Thanks again. Indeed, I do want to be consistent with Peirce's usage of the
> term "sign". I think it's interesting to note that "The collocation “triadic
> sign” isn’t to be found in the CP" (Jappy, 2023, p. 145, note 1). Yet, Peirce
> mentions, for instance, 'the essentially triadic nature of a Sign' (1906, CP
> 4.531, p. 415) or points to what might be regarded as the arbitrary character
> of terminology when stating (in CP 5.473, 1905) that "Whether the
> interpretant be necessarily a triadic result is a question of words, that is,
> of how we limit the extension of the term "sign"; but it seems to me [Peirce]
> convenient to make the triadic production of the interpretant essential to a
> "sign," calling the wider concept like a Jacquard loom, for example, a
> "quasi-sign.“ "
>
> Does this excerpt from CP 5.473 mean that the term 'sign' refers to the
> representamen, and the term "quasi-sign“ refer to the triadic relation of the
> representamen to the object for the interpretant?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Cécile
>
> Cécile Cosculluela
> MC anglais UPPA ∗ SSH ∗ LEA
> Maître de Conférences en Etudes Anglophones
> Associate Professor of English as a Second Language
> Semiotics • Linguistics • Grammar • Translation
> <LogoUPPA.jpg>
>
> De: "Jon Alan Schmidt" <jonalanschm...@gmail.com>
> À: "Peirce-L" <peirce-l@list.iupui.edu>
> Envoyé: Vendredi 5 Janvier 2024 20:36:50
> Objet: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Graphical Representations of the Sign by Peirce
>
> Cécile, List:
>
> CC: Would it be appropriate to consider that the term 'sign' may actually
> have two different meanings, referring either to the representamen, or to the
> triadic relation of the representamen to the object for the interpretant?
>
> Not if we want to be consistent with Peirce's usage of the term "sign" after
> a single instance in 1868. For the remaining 56 years of his life, he never
> used "sign" for the triadic relation, only for its first correlate. Again,
> the term for the triadic relation is "representing" or (more generally)
> "mediating."
>
> For a while, Peirce treated a sign as a certain kind of representamen--one
> "with a mental interpretant" (CP 2.274, EP 2:273, 1903). However, he
> ultimately decided that the two terms are synonymous--"there was no need of
> this horrid long word" [representamen] because "sign" is "a wonderful case of
> an almost popular use of a very broad word in almost the exact sense of the
> scientific definition" (SS 193, 1905).
>
> Regards,
>
> Jon
>
> On Fri, Jan 5, 2024 at 1:23 PM Cécile Cosculluela
> <cecile.coscullu...@univ-pau.fr <mailto:cecile.coscullu...@univ-pau.fr>>
> wrote:
>> Jon, Edwina, List,
>>
>> Thank you for your time and interesting answers. Would it be appropriate to
>> consider that the term 'sign' may actually have two different meanings,
>> referring either to the representamen, or to the triadic relation of the
>> representamen to the object for the interpretant?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Cécile
>>
>> Cécile Cosculluela
>> MC anglais UPPA ∗ SSH ∗ LEA
>> Maître de Conférences en Etudes Anglophones
>> Associate Professor of English as a Second Language
>> Semiotics • Linguistics • Grammar • Translation
>>
>> De: "Jon Alan Schmidt" <jonalanschm...@gmail.com
>> <mailto:jonalanschm...@gmail.com>>
>> À: "Peirce-L" <peirce-l@list.iupui.edu <mailto:peirce-l@list.iupui.edu>>
>> Envoyé: Vendredi 5 Janvier 2024 19:09:55
>> Objet: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Graphical Representations of the Sign by Peirce
>>
>> Cécile, List:
>>
>> CC: And the sign is a triadic relation. ... Nevertheless, since the sign is
>> a triadic relation, it is acceptable to represent the sign with the symbol
>> "Y" (preferably with three branches equally spaced).
>>
>> No, again, the sign is not a triadic relation--it is the first (simplest)
>> correlate of the triadic relation of representing or (more generally)
>> mediating, whose other two correlates are the sign's object and
>> interpretant. As Winfred Noeth correctly summarizes in a 2011 paper
>> (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254965612_From_Representation_to_Thirdness_and_Representamen_to_Medium_Evolution_of_Peircean_Key_Terms_and_Topics),
>> "Peirce did consider the sign to be a triadic relation, but only in 1868.
>> However, from 1873 onwards, sign, representamen, or representation were
>> synonymously used as the names referring to the first correlate of the
>> triadic relation of semiosis" (p. 455).
>>
>> This relation can be represented in Existential Graphs by placing the name
>> "representing" or "mediating" where CP 1.347 shows an individual lowercase
>> letter, with three lines of identity attached to it--one with the name
>> "sign" at the other end, one with the name "object" at the other end, and
>> one with the name "interpretant" at the other end. Equal spacing of the
>> branches is not essential, there just needs to be some convention for where
>> the names of the first/second/third correlates are shown around the
>> perimeter of the name of the relation itself. Hence, these two examples are
>> equivalent.
>>
>> <image.png>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA
>> Structural Engineer, Synechist Philosopher, Lutheran Christian
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>>
>> On Fri, Jan 5, 2024 at 11:38 AM Cécile Cosculluela
>> <cecile.coscullu...@univ-pau.fr <mailto:cecile.coscullu...@univ-pau.fr>>
>> wrote:
>>> Edwina, Jon, John, & fellow Listers,
>>>
>>> Thank you for your much appreciated clarifications. It is clear that the
>>> oft-shown graph of the sign as a triangle is not appropriate because it
>>> represents three dyadic relations, not one triadic one. And the sign is a
>>> triadic relation. Peirce used the "Y" symbol" to represent the triad (in CP
>>> 1.346 for instance), but he did not explicitly use the "Y" symbol" to
>>> represent the sign. (That's what I mean by the phrase "a diagram of the
>>> sign". I don't mean a diagram of Peirce's method of defining a sign, or
>>> examples of actual instances of marks, tokens, and types. I simply mean a
>>> representation / symbol of the triadic concept of sign.) There are actually
>>> no graphical representations of the sign in Peirce's texts. Nevertheless,
>>> since the sign is a triadic relation, it is acceptable to represent the
>>> sign with the symbol "Y" (preferably with three branches equally spaced).
>>> Would you agree that this sums up the general consensus among Peircean
>>> scholars on the question of the graphical representation of the sign by
>>> Peirce?
>>>
>>> Thanks for continuing the semiosis of enquiry ...
>>>
>>> Warm regards,
>>>
>>> Cécile
>>>
>>> Cécile Cosculluela
>>> MC anglais UPPA ∗ SSH ∗ LEA
>>> Maître de Conférences en Etudes Anglophones
>>> Associate Professor of English as a Second Language
>>> Semiotics • Linguistics • Grammar • Translation
>>> <LogoUPPA.jpg>
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