Table of Contents
Introduction 1
I Propositions
Chapter 1 Signs Conveying Information
On the Range of Peirce's Notion of Propositions: Dicisigns 7
Central Properties of Dicisigns 8
Varieties of Dicisigns 11
Road Dicisigns as an Example 16
Biosemiotic Dicisigns 17
Adaptation to Dicisigns 22
Chapter 2 Dicisigns and Habits
Implicit Propositions and Habit-Taking in Peirce's Pragmatism 23
Aspects of Habits 24
Habits in the Pragmatic Maxim 24
Habit, Continuity, and Realism 26
Acquired Habits, Innate Habits, Laws 29
Habit Straddling the Unconscious/Conscious Distinction 34
Self-Control and Consciousness 38
The Status of the Final Action Habit-A Proposition or Not? 40
Habits and Dicisigns Revisited 41
Chapter 3 Peirce's Theories of Assertion 43
Assertion from Colloquial to Technical Term 43
Assertion as the Proposition Sign's Self-Reference 47
Assertion as Assumption of Responsibility 49
Assertion as Persuasion 52
The Role of Conscious Deliberation 54
Everyday and Scientific Assertions 57
The Scope of Assertive Responsibility 58
Assertions in the Social Field 61
Chapter 4 The Identity of Sweet Molly Malone
Dicent Indexical Legisigns-A New Element in the Periodic Table of Semiotics? 62
Predictions of the Sign Combination Strategy of the 1903 Syllabus 62
The Riddle of Dicent indexical Legisigns 64
Pragmatic Roles and Purposes of Dicent Indexical Legisigns 68
Chapter 5 Co-localization as the Syntax of Multimodal Propositions
An Amazing Peircean Idea and Some Implications for the Semiotics of Truth 70
The Syntax of Propositions 71
What Kind of Sign is Co-localization Syntax? 77
Labels 80
Co-localization Syntax in Early Human Semiotics 83
Co-localization in Comics and Diagrams 87
Framing-The Topological Character of Co-Localization 92
Co-localization and Linguistics 101
Co-localization in Biosemiotics 103
The Ontology of Propositional Truth 107
Chapter 6 Sheets in the Wild
A First Overview over Types of Propositional Surfaces 110
Sheets of Assertion 110
A Few Examples of Sheets 111
Posters-Serious and Satirical 116
Types of Sheets of Assertions 119
II Iconicity and Diagrams
Chapter 7 How Do Pictures Act?
Two Semiotic Aspects of Picture Activity 123
Silk Print of a Silk Weaver 125
Threatening Pictures 125
Implicit Information 128
Chapter 8 Dimensions of Peircean Diagrammaticality 131
From the 1885 "Algebra of Logic" to the 1903 Image-Diagram-Metaphor Trichotomy 131
Operational vs. Optimal Iconicity 136
Diagram Tokens vs. Diagram Types 138
Diagrams as General Signs and as Conclusions of Arguments 139
Levels of Generality in Diagrams 144
Diagram Experiments vs. Real Experiments 145
Generic and Degenerate Diagrams 146
Explicit vs. Implicit Diagrams 147
Co-localization 148
Corollarial vs. Theorematic Diagram Reasoning-Explicit vs. Implicit Meanings of Diagrams 150
Logic Diagrams vs. Diagrams Facilitating Logical Inferences 152
Pure vs. Applied Diagrams 155
Continuous vs. Discontinuous Diagrams: Are Parts of a Diagram also Diagrams? 156
Linear vs. Multidimensional Diagrams 157
Diagrams in Non-Necessary Inferences 158
Diagrams in Peirce's Mature Semiotics 160
Chapter 9 Iconicity of Logic-And the Roots of the "Iconicity" Concept 162
Peircean Iconicity 163
Iconicity in Logic Formalizations 164
The Algebra of Logic 165
The Existential Graphs 167
Beta Graphs 170
Lines of Identity 171
Iconicity in Existential Graphs vs. Linear Notation 173
The Birth of Iconicity 177
Chapter 10 Diagrammatic Problem Solving (with Svend Østergaard) 179
Information Internal or External to the Problem Space 180
Types of Insight Problems 182
Diagrammatic Re-description and Diagrammatic Re-encoding 186
A Special Case: The Cog Wheel Experiment 187
Cog Wheel Lessons 188
Solution Strategies 191
Embodiment and Collaboration-Two Hypotheses 193
Chapter 11 Schematic Aspects of an Aesthetics of Diagrams 196
Diagrammatic Perception 196
Further Diagrammatization 197
Externalized Diagrams 197
Diagram Inferences 200
Multimodal Diagrams 200
Potential Aesthetic Qualities of Diagrams 202
III Semiotics and Metaphysics
Chapter 12 Peirce as a Truthmaker Realist
Propositional Realism as Backbone of Peircean Metaphysics 211
The Basic Kantian Argument 211
Predicate Realism 213
Subject Realism 214
Representation Realism 214
Realism of Indefinite Inquiry 216
Extrapolating from Propositions: Deducing Metaphysical Realism from Semiotic Investigation 217
Chapter 13 Phenomenology and Logic in Peirce 219
Phenomenology among the Sciences 219
The Road from Logic to Metaphysics 221
From Logic to Phenomenology 226
Methods and Findings of Phenomenology 229
Plurality of Paths to the Phaneron 233
Chapter 14 A Peirce for the 21 Century
Theoretical Development as Key to Peirce's Semiotics 235
The Mazes of the Development of Peirce's Semiotics 235
The Birth of Peirce's Semiotics-The 1860s 238
From Semiotics to Pragmatism-The 1870s 240
The Johns Hopkins Years-The 1880s 241
How To Reason-Early 1990s 243
Grammatica Speculativa-Late 1890s 245
The First Reform: Six Signs-1902 248
The Second Reform: Ten Signs-1903 250
The Third Reform: Twenty-Eight or Sixty-Six Signs-1904-1908 254
Semiotics in the World 259
Chapter 15 Blocking Evil Infinites
A Note on a Note on a Peircean Strategy 261
Schlechte Unendlichkeit 261
Nota Notae 262
Chapter 16 Peirce and Cassirer-The Kroisean Connection
Vistas and Open Issues in John Krois' Philosophical Semiotics 264
Sign Categorizations and Basic Phenomena 265
Pragmatism and Embodiment 265
Images and Symbolic Pregnance 266
Semiotic Evolution 267
Embodiment as Extended Mind 269
The Krois Perspective 270
Chapter 17 The Riddle of Dependences
How to Connect Entities across Pragmatism, Phenomenology, and Structuralism 272
Husserlian Dependences 273
Peircean Distinctions 275
Hjelmslevian Dependences 278
Ingardenian Dependences 286
A Metalanguage of Dependences 289
Chapter 18 Conscious Self-Control as Criterion for Reasoning 291
Peirce's Doctrine of Consciousness 292
Consciousness and Unconscious Mind 295
The Self of Self-Control 298
Self-Control and Reasoning 301
Ethics and Logical Self-Control 302
Self-Control: inhibitory or Creative? 304
The Self-Control Process 307
Levels of Self-Control and Hypostatic Abstraction 312
Machine and Animal Counterexamples 315
The Role of Consciousness in Self-Control 321
Windows and Freedom 324
Chapter 19 Limited Individuals and Unlimited Aims
Peirce's Philosophical Anthropology 328
Man, a Sign 329
Limited Individuals with Unlimited ideals 333
"Great Men" 337
1880s-1890s: Biological Instinct and Objective Idealism 340
From Anthropomorphism to the Celebration of Error 345
Human Participation in Creation 350
Humans, Aliens, and Purposes of the Universe 355
Security, Uberty, and Humanity 357
The Human Predicament 358
Coda 363
Literature 365
Earlier Versions of Chapters of This Book 381
List of Illustrations 383
Notes 385
Name Index 425
