The Function of the Correlate in Peirce's Early Writings

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  • Ronald Joseph Dillabough Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/2316-5278.2021v22i1:e52525

Keywords:

Peirce, Categories, Phenomenology, Semiotics, Logic.

Abstract

Many scholars believe “On a New List of Categories” is a metaphysical or transcendental deduction. The present essay will argue that Peirce derives the categories by induction and validates their order by prescision. Then the article shall solicit aid from Peirce’s early and later writings to explain how the new way to list the categories can serve as a genealogy of signification: how the different types of term, proposition, and argument emerge in the process of reasoning as the different types of signs. Thus, the genealogy of signification would then qualify as a phenomenology of logic as a science of semiotics. Such a science of semiotics will have three types of comparison corresponding to the sign-relation in illation: namely, uniparance, diaparance, and comparance. Then the three types of comparison will occasion three types of relative in different types of propositions: namely, concurrents, disquiparants, and equiparants. Finally, the three types of relative will occasion the different types of sign corresponding to the different types of term: namely, icons, indices, and symbols. With this classification, there is then an explanation of how the process of reasoning is a semiotic process with three forms of valid argument: namely, hypothesis, induction, and deduction.

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Author Biography

Ronald Joseph Dillabough, Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis.

Graduate of philosophy with a master's degree from Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis.T

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2021-12-31 — Updated on 2021-12-31

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Dillabough, R. J. (2021). The Function of the Correlate in Peirce’s Early Writings. Cognitio: Revista De Filosofia, 22(1), e52525. https://doi.org/10.23925/2316-5278.2021v22i1:e52525