Peirce’s Semiotic Pragmaticism and Buddhist Soteriology: Steps Towards Modelling “Thought Forms” of Signlessness

Lettner, Alina Therese

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“…); the notion of entities existing "in name only" (prajñaptisat), cf. Lettner (2020) and Sect. 13.33 below; the different epistemological positions taken by Indian Buddhist schools (incl.…”

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“…The regularity of dharmas is determined by the laws of "dependent arising" or "conditioned origination" (pratītyasamutpāda) (cf. Lettner 2020) and stands in no contrast to the impermanence of the dharmas and their occurrence "under the proper conditions" (cf. Warder 1971, pp.…”

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“…4;cf. AKBh 1988, p. 57); "apperception" (saṁjñā) (see Lettner (2020) and Sect. 13.7 below); the notion that a true "presentation" (ābhāsa, "appearance") results from the cognition assuming the "form" (ākāra) of its object (cf.…”

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“…Along Peircean lines, "...all our thought and knowledge is by signs" (ibid): an assumption that will need to be modified with regard to the Buddhist notion of insight (prajñā) that goes beyond the level of language and thought and thus also happens without mediation through signs (cf. Lettner 2020). It is with regard to the pillar of philosophy that we may develop the notion of epistemological "knowledge forms".…”

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“…As is common within the Indian tradition of philosophy, Buddhist thinkers assign primary significance to "epistemology" (pramāṇa-śāstra), and "only once they have satisfactorily established the criteria for valid means of knowledge can they move on to making ontological, metaphysical or ethical claims" (Lusthaus 2002, p. 6). In fact, such an approach reveals deep commonalities in spirit with Peirce's understanding of philosophy (Lettner 2020). According to Peirce, any specific theories and scientific knowledge claims can only be fully understood once we have accomplished an investigation into the "general structure of experience" through phenomenological analysis, and on this basis have constructed a "general theory of all forms of representation" (Pape 1998(Pape , p. 2019.…”

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The aim of this chapter is to set out the basic coordinates of a cybersemiotic philology of Buddhist knowledge forms in order to further develop the nonanthropocentric dimensions and process-philosophical potential of both Buddhism and Peircean semiotics. This is also meant to lay the foundations for an interculturally and philologically enriched cybersemiotics. Proceeding from the logical conception of philosophical categories and their philological explication, the transdisciplinary model of a semiotic philology of thought forms (Lettner, diss. thesis, forthc.) develops an intercultural explication of "thought forms" with regard to the three interdependent pillars of philosophy (epistemological "knowledge forms"), philology (textualised "language forms") and cultural studies ("life forms" as culture-related practices). In a first step, the reconstruction of paradigmatic modes of knowledge representation will be exemplified with regard to the approaches of Aristotelian philosophy, various positions of premodern Indian Buddhism as well as the paradigms of modern science and postclassical physics. In the second step of a cybersemiotic interpretation, Peirce's synechistic understanding of habit will serve us to enlarge the culture-specific notion of life forms as pragmatically grounded thought forms by making it converge with the ethologically informed, biosemiotic notion of "life forms" embraced by cybersemiotics. Exploring cybersemiotics as developed by Brier (2008) from the perspective of Indian Buddhist philosophy intends to work out the phenomenological purport of Peirce's approach, with its move of locating agency in the process of semiosis, by comparing it to the Buddhist

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Peirce’s Semiotic Pragmaticism and Buddhist Soteriology: Steps Towards Modelling “Thought Forms” of Signlessness

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Towards a Cybersemiotic Philology of Buddhist Knowledge Forms: How to Undo Objects and Concepts in Process- Philosophical Terms

Towards a Cybersemiotic Philology of Buddhist Knowledge Forms: How to Undo Objects and Concepts in Process- Philosophical Terms

Semiotic Roots and Buddhist Routes in Phenomenology and Intercultural Philosophy: A Peircean Study of Abhidharma Buddhist Theories of Consciousness and Perception

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