Semeiotic

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Semeiotic is one of the terms that Charles Sanders Peirce used to describe his theory of triadic sign relations, along with semiotic and the plural variants of both terms. The form semeiotic is often used to distinguish Peirce's theory, since it is less often used by other writers to denote their particular approaches to the subject.

Types of signs
There are three principal ways that a sign can denote its objects. These are usually described as kinds, species, or types of signs, but it is important to recognize that these are not ontological species, that is, they are not mutually exclusive features of description, since the same thing can be a sign in several different ways.

Beginning very roughly, the three main ways of being a sign can be described as follows:


 * An icon is a sign that denotes its objects by virtue of a quality that it shares with its objects.


 * An index is a sign that denotes its objects by virtue of an existential connection that it has with its objects.


 * A symbol is a sign that denotes its objects solely by virtue of the fact that it is interpreted to do so.

One of Peirce's early delineations of the three types of signs is still quite useful as a first approach to understanding their differences and their relationships to each other:

Readings

 * Awbrey, J.L., and Awbrey, S.M. (1995), &ldquo;Interpretation as Action : The Risk of Inquiry&rdquo;, Inquiry : Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 15(1), pp. 40–52. Archive.  Online.

Resources

 * Semeiotic &rarr; ThoughtMesh


 * Bergman & Paavola (eds.), Commens Dictionary of Peirce's Terms, Webpage
 * Semeiotic
 * Icon
 * Index
 * Symbol

Focal nodes

 * Inquiry Live
 * Logic Live

Peer nodes

 * Semeiotic @ InterSciWiki
 * Semeiotic @ Subject Wikis
 * Semeiotic @ Wikiversity
 * Semeiotic @ Wikiversity Beta

Logical operators

 * Exclusive disjunction
 * Logical conjunction
 * Logical disjunction
 * Logical equality


 * Logical implication
 * Logical NAND
 * Logical NNOR
 * Negation

Related topics

 * Ampheck
 * Boolean domain
 * Boolean function
 * Boolean-valued function
 * Differential logic


 * Logical graph
 * Minimal negation operator
 * Multigrade operator
 * Parametric operator
 * Peirce's law


 * Propositional calculus
 * Sole sufficient operator
 * Truth table
 * Universe of discourse
 * Zeroth order logic

Relational concepts

 * Continuous predicate
 * Hypostatic abstraction
 * Logic of relatives
 * Logical matrix


 * Relation
 * Relation composition
 * Relation construction
 * Relation reduction


 * Relation theory
 * Relative term
 * Sign relation
 * Triadic relation

Information, Inquiry

 * Inquiry
 * Dynamics of inquiry


 * Semeiotic
 * Logic of information


 * Descriptive science
 * Normative science


 * Pragmatic maxim
 * Truth theory

Related articles

 * Semiotic Information
 * Futures Of Logical Graphs
 * Propositional Equation Reasoning Systems


 * Differential Logic : Introduction
 * Differential Propositional Calculus
 * Differential Logic and Dynamic Systems


 * Introduction to Inquiry Driven Systems
 * Prospects for Inquiry Driven Systems
 * Inquiry Driven Systems : Inquiry Into Inquiry

Document history
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 * Semeiotic, InterSciWiki
 * Semeiotic, Semantic Web
 * Semeiotic, Subject Wikis
 * Semeiotic, ThoughtMesh
 * Semeiotic, Wikinfo
 * Semeiotic, Wikiversity
 * Semeiotic, Wikiversity Beta
 * Semeiotic, Wikipedia