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Glimpses into Peircean event imaging: Episode-simulation as a scaffold for right-guessing

  • Donna E West
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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.

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Preface V
  3. Contents XIII
  4. Section 1: Semiotic epistemologies
  5. Welcome to Semiosistan! 1
  6. Beyond teleonomy: Towards a biology of semiotic realism 13
  7. Risky heuristics 39
  8. The semiotic inquirer and the practice of empirical inquiry 59
  9. Transdisciplinarity as a solution to the challenges of the contemporary world 75
  10. Section 2: Contemporary schools of theoretical semiotics
  11. Notes towards a semiotic theory of learning 87
  12. Scarcity and meaning: Towards a semiotics of economic transaction 111
  13. Applied ecosemiotics: Ontological basis and conceptual models 129
  14. The anthropological dimension of Greimas’ narrative semiotics 151
  15. What happens? The Zemic model in existential semiotics 169
  16. Section 3: Applications and practical discussions
  17. Intermedial narrative as communication media: Imagination, narrative, and selfhood from Peirce’s semiotic perspective 205
  18. Icons of modernity in belle époque Bucharest 227
  19. Glimpses into Peircean event imaging: Episode-simulation as a scaffold for right-guessing 249
  20. Development of agency as semiotic empowerment: A Peircean analysis 273
  21. On the corposphere: Body, eroticism and pornography 299
  22. Natural and cultural layers in the discursive becoming of language as a semiotic system 311
  23. Index 337
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110857801-013

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Preface V
  3. Contents XIII
  4. Section 1: Semiotic epistemologies
  5. Welcome to Semiosistan! 1
  6. Beyond teleonomy: Towards a biology of semiotic realism 13
  7. Risky heuristics 39
  8. The semiotic inquirer and the practice of empirical inquiry 59
  9. Transdisciplinarity as a solution to the challenges of the contemporary world 75
  10. Section 2: Contemporary schools of theoretical semiotics
  11. Notes towards a semiotic theory of learning 87
  12. Scarcity and meaning: Towards a semiotics of economic transaction 111
  13. Applied ecosemiotics: Ontological basis and conceptual models 129
  14. The anthropological dimension of Greimas’ narrative semiotics 151
  15. What happens? The Zemic model in existential semiotics 169
  16. Section 3: Applications and practical discussions
  17. Intermedial narrative as communication media: Imagination, narrative, and selfhood from Peirce’s semiotic perspective 205
  18. Icons of modernity in belle époque Bucharest 227
  19. Glimpses into Peircean event imaging: Episode-simulation as a scaffold for right-guessing 249
  20. Development of agency as semiotic empowerment: A Peircean analysis 273
  21. On the corposphere: Body, eroticism and pornography 299
  22. Natural and cultural layers in the discursive becoming of language as a semiotic system 311
  23. Index 337
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