Charles Sanders Peirce -Thirdness will save us

Charles S. Peirce's Theory of Signs: "According to Peirce, ‘meaning’ is a triadic relation between a sign, an object, and an interpretant. This triadic relation is not reducible to a set of dyadic relations between a sign and an object or between an object and an interpretant (CP 1.345). Meaning is never reducible to Firstness or Secondness, but can only be a ‘genuine’ Thirdness. A general meaning can always be found in ‘genuine’ triadic relations, but can never be found in ‘degenerate’ triadic relations which have lost their Thirdness."


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