Mary, List,
This appeared on my Facebook page (Charles S. Peirce Society) shortly after
I read your message today and I thought you might find it of interest:
The question being responded to below was, why did Peirce's "theory of
semiotics . . . go unnoticed in James's radical empiricism"?
John and list,
You wrote: "Peirce's ethics of terminology is important. But he made an
important distinction: If an author's term is adopted and used by other
authors, then the person who coined that term has an obligation to continue
using it in the same sense in which it is being used.
Gary R and Jon AS,
Peirce's ethics of terminology is important.
But he made an important distinction: If an author's term is adopted and
used by other authors, then the person who coined that term has an
obligation to continue using it in the same sense in which it is being
used. But if