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News | Posted 25/08/2014
Helsinki Metaphysical Club Workshop: ICON

Programme

10-13 (Room 19, University Main Building)
Jean-Marie Chevalier (Helsinki), "Peirce's Struggle with Resemblance"
Marc Champagne (Helsinki), "Introducing Peircean...

Encyclopedia Article | Posted 13/10/2013
Jappy, Antony: "Iconicity, Hypoiconicity"

Drawing on various aspects of Peirce’s philosophy, the article shows how iconicity and hypoiconicity are derived from a logic of the icon postulated in 1906. The first part deals with the nature...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 19/08/2013
Quote from "One, Two, Three: Fundamental Categories of Thought and of Nature"

There may be a mere relation of reason between the sign and the thing signified; in that case the sign is an icon. Or there may be a direct physical...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 19/08/2013
Quote from "One, Two, Three: Fundamental Categories of Thought and of Nature"

One very important triad is this: it has been found that there are three kinds of signs which are all indispensable in all reasoning; the first is the diagrammatic sign or...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 28/04/2013
Quote from "A Sketch of Logical Critics"

… I had observed that the most frequently useful division of signs is by trichotomy into firstly Likenesses, or, as I prefer to say, Icons, which serve to...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 28/04/2013
Quote from "Prolegomena to an Apology for Pragmaticism"

… an analysis of the essence of a sign, (stretching that word to its widest limits, as anything which, being determined by an object, determines an interpretation to determination, through it...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 28/04/2013
Quote from "Letters to Lady Welby"

In respect to their relations to their dynamic objects, I divide signs into Icons, Indices, and Symbols (a division I gave in 1867). I define an Icon as a sign which is...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 28/04/2013
Quote from "New Elements (Kaina stoiceia)"

Of signs there are two different degenerate forms. But though I give them this disparaging name, they are of the greatest utility, and serve purposes that genuine signs could not. The more...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 28/04/2013
Quote from "Syllabus: Syllabus of a course of Lectures at the Lowell Institute beginning 1903, Nov. 23. On Some Topics of Logic"

An Icon is a Representamen whose Representative Quality is a Firstness of it as a First. That is, a quality that it has qua thing renders it fit to be a representamen. Thus,...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 28/04/2013
Quote from "Syllabus: Syllabus of a course of Lectures at the Lowell Institute beginning 1903, Nov. 23. On Some Topics of Logic"

An Icon […] is strictly a possibility, involving a possibility, and thus the possibility of its being represented as a possibility is the possibility of the...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 28/04/2013
Quote from "Syllabus: Nomenclature and Division of Triadic Relations, as far as they are determined"

An Icon is a sign which refers to the Object that it denotes merely by virtue of characters of its own and which it possesses, just the same, whether any such...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 28/04/2013
Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture III"

An icon is a representamen which fulfills the function of a representamen by virtue of a character which it possesses in itself, and would possess just the same...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 28/04/2013
Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture III"

… the Icon may undoubtedly be divided according to the categories; but the mere completeness of the notion of the icon does not imperatively call for any such division. For a pure icon...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 28/04/2013
Quote from "Logical Tracts. No. 2. On Existential Graphs, Euler's Diagrams, and Logical Algebra"

An icon is a representamen of what it represents and for the mind that interprets it as such, by virtue of its being an immediate image, that is to say by virtue of...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 28/04/2013
Quote from "Sign"

An icon is a sign which would possess the character which renders it significant, even though its object had no existence; such as a lead-pencil streak as...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 28/04/2013
Quote from "Minute Logic: Chapter I. Intended Characters of this Treatise"

A Sign degenerate in the greater degree is an Originalian Sign, or Icon, which is a Sign whose significant virtue is due simply to its Quality. Such, for example,...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 28/04/2013
Quote from "On the Algebra of Logic: A Contribution to the Philosophy of Notation"

The third case is where a dual relation between the sign and its object is degenerate and consists in a mere resemblance between them. I call a sign which stands for...

Manuscript | Posted 07/04/2013
Peirce, Charles S. (1903 [c.]). Logical Tracts. No. 1. On Existential Graphs. MS [R] 491

From the Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c 1903], pp. 1-12; 1-10; 1-3; 11 pp. of variants. Logical and existential graphs (pp. 1-12). Basic definitions and principles of...

Manuscript | Posted 03/02/2013
Peirce, Charles S. (1908 [c.]). A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God (G). MS [R] 842

From the Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., G-c.1905-1, pp. 1-134 (p. 27 and pp. 109-120 missing), with 40 pp. Of variants and 1 p. (“Contents of G”).
Published, in part, as 2.755-772,...

Manuscript | Posted 27/01/2013
Peirce, Charles S. (1895). Short Logic: Chapter I. Of Reasoning in General. MS [R] 595

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., G-c.1893-3, pp. 1-32, 33-38; plus 14 pp. of variants.
Selections published as follows: 2.286-291 (pp. 6-13); 2.295-296 (pp. 14-16); 2.435-443 (pp. 23-29...

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