[CG] Re: Systems of Interpretation

Cf: Systems of Interpretation • 3 https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/05/10/systems-of-interpretation-3-2/ Figure 2. An Elementary Sign Relation • https://inquiryintoinquiry.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/elementary-sign-rela… That “triskelion” stick-figure for an elementary sign relation or individual triple (o, s, i) is about the simplest possible. Susan Awbrey and I used a less skeletal figure in an earlier paper, where our aim was to articulate the commonalities Peirce's concept of a sign relation shares with its archetype in Aristotle. Figure 1. The Sign Relation in Aristotle • https://inquiryintoinquiry.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/awbrey-awbrey-1995-e… Here is the corresponding passage from “On Interpretation”. ❝Words spoken are symbols or signs (symbola) of affections or impressions (pathemata) of the soul (psyche); written words are the signs of words spoken. As writing, so also is speech not the same for all races of men. But the mental affections themselves, of which these words are primarily signs (semeia), are the same for the whole of mankind, as are also the objects (pragmata) of which those affections are representations or likenesses, images, copies (homoiomata).❞ (De Interp. i. 16a4). Reference — Awbrey, J.L., and Awbrey, S.M. (1995), “Interpretation as Action : The Risk of Inquiry”, Inquiry : Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 15(1), 40–52. Journal ( https://www.pdcnet.org/inquiryct/content/inquiryct_1995_0015_0001_0040_0052 ) Online (doc) ( https://www.academia.edu/1266493/Interpretation_as_Action_The_Risk_of_Inqui… ) Online (pdf) ( https://www.academia.edu/57812482/Interpretation_as_Action_The_Risk_of_Inqu… ) Regards, Jon