[CG] Re: Interpreter and Interpretant

Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 2 • https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/01/07/interpreter-and-interpretant-sele… In the next passage up for consideration Peirce describes the hypostatic abstraction of a “person” who conducts the movement of signs as a “Sop to Cerberus”, in other words, a rhetorical gambit used 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. Resources — Hypostatic Abstraction • https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2008/08/08/hypostatic-abstraction/ Survey of Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/26/survey-of-semiotics-semiosis-sign… Regards, Jon cc: https://www.academia.edu/community/VvWYm7 cc: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Interpreter_and_Interpretant