A System of 21 Classes of Signs as an Instrument of Inquiry

Borges, Priscila Monteiro

doi:10.5840/ajs2016153

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“…As the dynamic object is the aspect that represents reality in semiotic theory (FRANCO; BORGES, 2015), the three modes of the dynamic objects, possibility, actuality, and generality are present in reality.…”

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Indeterminacy and final causation in the process of sign determination

Borges

Franco

2022

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In semiotics, final causation can be related to the process of determination (PAPE, 1993). From Peirce’s point of view, determination is not a causal determinism, but a delimitation of a range of possibilities. One starts from objects towards interpretants, in a process mediated by the sign, in which the dynamic object works as a force that constrains interpretants to correspond to their objects. The correspondence between object and interpretant is important because it is through a generated interpretant that the object of a sign can be known. Even though this process of determination coincides with the idea of final causation, there is a certain indeterminacy in it. For Peirce (EP 2:353, 1905), vagueness and generality are two types of indeterminacy. In the terms of the phenomenological categories, vagueness is an indeterminacy of the order of firstness, generality an indeterminacy of the order of thirdness, and both, to some extent, are opposed to that which is defined, which belongs to secondness. Each aspect of the sign may vary according to the three phenomenological categories. Consequently, degrees of imprecision are added to the semiotic process, which is a determination process. Peirce asserts that the perfect precision of thought is theoretically unattainable (SS 11, 1903). Every sign is vague or general at least to some degree. In this paper, we seek to perceive degrees of indetermination and causality from an analysis of the kinds of objects and interpretants proposed by Peirce in the system of 28 sign classes.

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“…As the terms destined, effective and explicit are not recurrent in Peirce's work, we adopt in this text the most known terminology that refers to the interpretants as immediate, dynamic and final. Cf BORGES, 2015BORGES, , 2014BORGES, , 2010FARIAS;QUEIROZ, 2003;MÜLLER, 1994;SANDERS, 1970;WEISS;BURKS, 1945..…”

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Indeterminacy and final causation in the process of sign determination

Borges

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2022

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A System of 21 Classes of Signs as an Instrument of Inquiry

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