Dynamical Object

Keyword: Dynamical Object


Article in Journal | Posted 26/03/2018
Wilson, Aaron B. (2017). The Peircean Solution to Non-Existence Problems
This paper shows how Peirce's semeiotics can be applied to explain the representation of non-existent or unreal objects, whether in misrepresentation or in thought and discourse about fictional...
Article in Edited Collection | Posted 28/01/2018
Rosenthal, Sandra B. (1989). The Ultimate Logical Interpretant and the Dynamical Object. In: Semiotics 1988
Article in Journal | Posted 02/10/2017
Kalaga, W. H. (1995). The Ambivalent Autonomy of the Real
Examines the immunity of the Dynamical Object from any stigma of the mind. Discussion on the important contribution of the recognition of the determination of the sign by the object to semiotic...
Dictionary Entry | Posted 24/08/2017
Quote from "On the System of Existential Graphs Considered as an Instrument for the Investigation of Logic"

…every sign has two objects. It has that object which it represents itself to have, its Immediate Object, which has no other being than that of being represented to be, a mere...

Manuscript | Posted 24/08/2017
Peirce, Charles S. (1906 [c.]). On the System of Existential Graphs Considered as an Instrument for the Investigation of Logic. MS [R] 499(s)
Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/08/2017
Quote from "Letters to Lady Welby"

As to the Object of a Sign, it is to be observed that the Sign not only really is determined by its Object, – that is, for example, the name Charlemagne is in correspondence with the historic...

Article in Journal | Posted 13/03/2017
Hausman, Carl L. (2002). Charles Peirce's Evolutionary Realism as a Process Philosophy
Focuses on Charles Peirce's evolutionary realism. Information on the twofold object of inquiry; Functions of the dynamical object.
Article in Journal | Posted 22/03/2016
Pape, Helmut (2015). C. S. Peirce on the dynamic object of a sign: From ontology to semiotics and back
That reality, and in particular the (dynamic) objects of signs, are independent of our thoughts or other representations is a crucial thesis of Peirce's realism. On the other hand, his semiotics...
Article in Journal | Posted 22/03/2016
Bellucci, Francesco (2015). Exploring Peirce's speculative grammar: The immediate object of a sign
The paper argues against what I call the "Fregean interpretation" of Peirce's distinction between the immediate and the dynamic object of a sign, according to which Peirce's...
Article in Journal | Posted 23/11/2014
Alexander, Victoria (2013). Creativity: Self-Referential Mistaking, Not Negating
In C. S. Peirce, as well as in the work of many biosemioticians, the semiotic object is sometimes described as a physical “object” with material properties and sometimes described as an “ideal object...
Dictionary Entry | Posted 18/08/2013
Quote from "Letters to William James"

We must distinguish between the Immediate Object, - i.e., the Object as represented in the sign, - and the Real (no, because perhaps the Object is altogether fictive, I must choose a different...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 18/08/2013
Quote from "Letters to William James"

As to the Object, that may mean the Object as cognized in the Sign and therefore an Idea, or it may be the Object as it is regardless of any particular aspect of it, the...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 18/08/2013
Quote from "Letters to Lady Welby"

It is usual and proper to distinguish two Objects of a Sign, the Mediate without, and the Immediate within the Sign. Its Interpretant is all that the Sign conveys: acquaintance with its Object...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 18/08/2013
Quote from "Letters to Lady Welby"

… it is necessary to distinguish the Immediate Object, or the Object as the Sign represents it, from the Dynamical Object, or really efficient but not...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 18/08/2013
Quote from "Prolegomena to an Apology for Pragmaticism"

… we have to distinguish the Immediate Object, which is the Object as the Sign itself represents it, and whose Being is thus dependent upon the Representation of it in the Sign, from...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 18/08/2013
Quote from "Letters to Lady Welby"

the dynamical object does not mean something out of the mind. It means something forced upon the mind in perception, but including more than perception reveals. It is an...