Sign, mind, time, space: Contradictory complementary coalescence
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Floyd Merrell
Abstract
Peirce's concept of the sign can be qualified in terms of inter-dependence, inter-relatedness, and inter-action, from icons to indices to symbols, from Firstness to Secondness to Thirdness, and with respect to sign generacy and degeneracy. This entails a contradictory complementary coalescence of signs, within a temporal-spatial flux and flow wherein everything is always becoming something other than what it was becoming. In this vein, the present article suggests that (1) topological models, (2) certain facets of twentieth-century science up to the present, and (3) avant-garde art — specifically, Cubism and the work of Mavrits C. Escher — when qualified by (4) a non-Boolean, non-linear, context-dependent, contradictory complementary lattice, which reveals (5) sign convergence and blending, or signs becoming signs, can offer (6) a synthetic account of the general semiosic process.
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- The sense of the interface: Applying semiotics to HCI research
- Sign, mind, time, space: Contradictory complementary coalescence
- Meanings of communication: Comparative terminological studies of a cultural concept and its variations in the multilingual society of India
- Troubles with trichotomies: Reflections on the utility of Peirce's sign trichotomies for social analysis
- Paleolithic finger flutings as efficient communication: Applying Zipf's Law to two panels in Rouffignac Cave, France
- The pragmatic maxim of the mature Peirce regarding its special normative function
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