Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 2
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All,
In the next passage up for review the hypostatic abstraction
of a person to conduct the movement of signs is described by
Peirce as a Sop to Cerberus, a rhetorical gambit set to
side‑step a persistent difficulty of exposition.
❝It is clearly indispensable to start with an accurate and broad
analysis of the nature of a Sign. I define a Sign as anything which
is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines
an effect upon a person, which effect I call its Interpretant, that the
latter is thereby mediately determined by the former. My insertion of
“upon a person” is a sop to Cerberus, because I despair of making my own
broader conception understood.❞ (Peirce 1908, Selected Writings, p. 404).
Reference —
Peirce, C.S. (1908), “Letters to Lady Welby”, Chapter 24, pp. 380–432
in Charles S. Peirce : Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance),
Edited with Introduction and Notes by Philip P. Wiener, Dover Publications,
New York, NY, 1966.
Resource —
Hypostatic Abstraction
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https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2008/08/08/hypostatic-abstraction/
Regards,
Jon
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