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Charles Sanders Peirce's Semiotics
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Symbol
A sign that represents its object by virtue of a law or convention, typically linguistic.
Abduction
A form of logical inference which starts from an observation then seeks to find the simplest and most likely explanation.
Index
A sign that is connected to its object by actual association or causality.
Fallibilism
The philosophical doctrine that all claims of knowledge could, in principle, be mistaken.
Thirdness
A category of phenomenology representing mediation, growth, and generality.
Object
That which a sign refers to; the sign's referent in the world, whether abstract or concrete.
Secondness
A category of phenomenology representing reaction or opposition, indicative of actuality.
Pragmatic Maxim
Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have; then, our conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object.
Representamen
The physical form of the sign; it is the perceivable aspect that signifies something.
Icon
A sign that represents its object by resemblance or similarity.
Phenomenology (Category Theory)
The philosophical study of the structures of experience and consciousness as described by Peirce.
Sign
A sign is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity.
Interpretant
The concept or meaning the sign produces in the mind of the interpreter.
Firstness
A category of phenomenology representing qualities or possibilities, without reference to anything else.
Semeiotic
The study of signs and sign-using behavior; also called semiotics or semiology.
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