The elusory kingdoms of the mind : Glosses on José Luis Caivano's paper
Sonesson, Göran LU
(2015)
In Cognitive Semiotics
8(2).
p.141-153
- Abstract
Peirce's best idea, and the one least implemented by himself and his followers, is that of an ethics of terminology. Using this ethics as a tool, we suggest that many Peircean terms are in fact misleading, or, as he said himself at the end of his life, "injurious."From the point of view of cognitive semiotics, there is no reason to abide by Peirce's definition of semiosis, but, taking up the two quotes offered by Caivano, we demonstrate that they lead to different results, one being phenomenological and the other formalist. We go on to suggest that Peirce himself cannot have believed in the first definition, because then there could be no point in fallibilism and the community of scholars. In fact, we claim that what the different... (More)
Peirce's best idea, and the one least implemented by himself and his followers, is that of an ethics of terminology. Using this ethics as a tool, we suggest that many Peircean terms are in fact misleading, or, as he said himself at the end of his life, "injurious."From the point of view of cognitive semiotics, there is no reason to abide by Peirce's definition of semiosis, but, taking up the two quotes offered by Caivano, we demonstrate that they lead to different results, one being phenomenological and the other formalist. We go on to suggest that Peirce himself cannot have believed in the first definition, because then there could be no point in fallibilism and the community of scholars. In fact, we claim that what the different definitions of the "kingdoms"of nature show is precisely that human beings can liberate themselves from their Umwelt and adopt the scientific world-view, and this is also what we have to do when analysing semiosis itself.
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- Sonesson, Göran
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2015
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- ethics of terminology, ethnobiology, semiosis, semiotic hierarchy, sign
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- Cognitive Semiotics
- volume
- 8
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 13 pages
- publisher
- De Gruyter
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- scopus:85120732776
- ISSN
- 2235-2066
- DOI
- 10.1515/cogsem-2015-0009
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- Publisher Copyright: © 2015 by De Gruyter Mouton 2015.
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