Dicisigns: Peirce's Semiotic Doctrine of Propositions

TY - JOUR

T1 - Dicisigns

T2 - Peirce's Semiotic Doctrine of Propositions

AU - Stjernfelt, Frederik

PY - 2015/4/1

Y1 - 2015/4/1

N2 - The paper gives a detailed reconstruction and discussion of Peirce’s doctrine of propositions, so-called Dicisigns, developed in the years around 1900. The special features different from the logical mainstream are highlighted: the functional definition not dependent upon conscious stances nor human language, the semiotic characterization extending propositions and quasi-propositions to cover prelinguistic and prehuman occurrences of signs, the relations of Dicisigns to the conception of facts, of diagrammatical reasoning, of icons and indices, of meanings, of objects, of syntax in Peirce’s logic-as-semiotics.

AB - The paper gives a detailed reconstruction and discussion of Peirce’s doctrine of propositions, so-called Dicisigns, developed in the years around 1900. The special features different from the logical mainstream are highlighted: the functional definition not dependent upon conscious stances nor human language, the semiotic characterization extending propositions and quasi-propositions to cover prelinguistic and prehuman occurrences of signs, the relations of Dicisigns to the conception of facts, of diagrammatical reasoning, of icons and indices, of meanings, of objects, of syntax in Peirce’s logic-as-semiotics.

U2 - 10.1007/s11229-014-0406-5

DO - 10.1007/s11229-014-0406-5

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0039-7857

VL - 192

SP - 1019

EP - 1054

JO - Synthese

JF - Synthese

IS - 4

ER -