Glimpses into Peircean event imaging: Episode-simulation as a scaffold for right-guessing
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Donna E West
Abstract
Peirce’s concept of virtual habit, (1909: MS 620), constitutes a scaffold for abductive reasoning. Notable is how virtual habit compel the conduct employed to avert anticipated consequences. Virtual habits surface as vivid action- images, so specific that they qualify as determinations, soon to be enacted. Although they do not rise to the level of habit, in that repetition has not yet materialized, they serve a higher calling, inciting novel hypotheses, particularly in children (habit-change). Vivid, episodic memories emerge at 3;0 when index differentiates the where of event scenes. These memories are constructed when index hastens the application of logic to cause-effect scenarios, such that spatial relations suggest a logic for event frames/scenes, in line with Schacter and Addis’ 2007 Constructive Episodic Simulation Hypothesis. This inquiry shows how Peirce’s concept of virtual habit (compelling, episodic images) constitutes the most effective preparation for implementing novel inferences.
Abstract
Peirce’s concept of virtual habit, (1909: MS 620), constitutes a scaffold for abductive reasoning. Notable is how virtual habit compel the conduct employed to avert anticipated consequences. Virtual habits surface as vivid action- images, so specific that they qualify as determinations, soon to be enacted. Although they do not rise to the level of habit, in that repetition has not yet materialized, they serve a higher calling, inciting novel hypotheses, particularly in children (habit-change). Vivid, episodic memories emerge at 3;0 when index differentiates the where of event scenes. These memories are constructed when index hastens the application of logic to cause-effect scenarios, such that spatial relations suggest a logic for event frames/scenes, in line with Schacter and Addis’ 2007 Constructive Episodic Simulation Hypothesis. This inquiry shows how Peirce’s concept of virtual habit (compelling, episodic images) constitutes the most effective preparation for implementing novel inferences.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Preface V
- Contents XIII
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Section 1: Semiotic epistemologies
- Welcome to Semiosistan! 1
- Beyond teleonomy: Towards a biology of semiotic realism 13
- Risky heuristics 39
- The semiotic inquirer and the practice of empirical inquiry 59
- Transdisciplinarity as a solution to the challenges of the contemporary world 75
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Section 2: Contemporary schools of theoretical semiotics
- Notes towards a semiotic theory of learning 87
- Scarcity and meaning: Towards a semiotics of economic transaction 111
- Applied ecosemiotics: Ontological basis and conceptual models 129
- The anthropological dimension of Greimas’ narrative semiotics 151
- What happens? The Zemic model in existential semiotics 169
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Section 3: Applications and practical discussions
- Intermedial narrative as communication media: Imagination, narrative, and selfhood from Peirce’s semiotic perspective 205
- Icons of modernity in belle époque Bucharest 227
- Glimpses into Peircean event imaging: Episode-simulation as a scaffold for right-guessing 249
- Development of agency as semiotic empowerment: A Peircean analysis 273
- On the corposphere: Body, eroticism and pornography 299
- Natural and cultural layers in the discursive becoming of language as a semiotic system 311
- Index 337
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Preface V
- Contents XIII
-
Section 1: Semiotic epistemologies
- Welcome to Semiosistan! 1
- Beyond teleonomy: Towards a biology of semiotic realism 13
- Risky heuristics 39
- The semiotic inquirer and the practice of empirical inquiry 59
- Transdisciplinarity as a solution to the challenges of the contemporary world 75
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Section 2: Contemporary schools of theoretical semiotics
- Notes towards a semiotic theory of learning 87
- Scarcity and meaning: Towards a semiotics of economic transaction 111
- Applied ecosemiotics: Ontological basis and conceptual models 129
- The anthropological dimension of Greimas’ narrative semiotics 151
- What happens? The Zemic model in existential semiotics 169
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Section 3: Applications and practical discussions
- Intermedial narrative as communication media: Imagination, narrative, and selfhood from Peirce’s semiotic perspective 205
- Icons of modernity in belle époque Bucharest 227
- Glimpses into Peircean event imaging: Episode-simulation as a scaffold for right-guessing 249
- Development of agency as semiotic empowerment: A Peircean analysis 273
- On the corposphere: Body, eroticism and pornography 299
- Natural and cultural layers in the discursive becoming of language as a semiotic system 311
- Index 337
