Peirce on facts, propositions, and the index
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Richard Kenneth Atkins
Abstract
Peirce holds that our logic should be the basis for our metaphysics. He also thinks that facts and propositions are structurally isomorphic. However, unlike many theorists who take propositions such as snow is white and grass is green as their paradigmatic examples, Peirce takes it rains (Latin: pleurit) and similar propositions as his paradigmatic examples. I explore how his analysis of such propositions and the way in which they convey meaning becomes more complex from 1895 to 1909, how this impacts his metaphysics, and how he can claim that something like the common environment of two interlocutors can itself be an index.
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- Frontmatter
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- research article
- Introduction: Peirce’s extended theory and classifications of signs
- Semiosis is cognitive niche construction
- Peirce on facts, propositions, and the index
- Peirce on assertion and other speech acts
- Confidence through the semiotic process
- Diagrammatic relations of probative strength and inferential progression through semiotics
- On the immediate and dynamical interpretants and objects of signs
- Peirce and Dewey think about art: Quality and the theory of signs
- From phenomenology to ontology in Peirce’s typologies
- Reductionism in Peirce’s sign classifications and its remedy
- The trichotomic machine
- Peirce’s universal categories: On their potential for gesture theory and multimodal analysis
- On the transmodality of signs and their interpretants: Evidence from Peirce’s MS 599, Reason’s Rules
- Semeiotic completeness in the theory of signs
- Elements of Peircean phenomenology: From categories to signs by way of grounds
- Charles S. Peirce’s sign typology of 1903 and the semeiotic of universe, man, and culture
- Dimensions of Peircean diagrammaticality
- Index as scaffold to logical and final interpretants: Compulsive urges and modal submissions
