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Signs Grow: Semiosis and Life Processes

Signs Grow: Semiosis and Life Processes

Merrell, Floyd

Paperback

Series: Heritage

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0802071422
ISBN13: 9780802071422
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Aug 15 1996
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.22
Height: 1.02 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This is the third volume in Floyd Merrell's trilogy on semiotics focusing on Peirce's categories of Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness. In this book the author argues that there are passageways linking the social sciences with the physical sciences, and signs with life processes. This is not a study of the semiotics of life, but rather of semiosis as a living process. Merrell attempts to articulate the links between thought that is rooted in that which can be quantified and thought that resists quantification, namely that of the consciousness. As he writes in his preface, he is intent on fusing the customary distinctions between life and non-life, mind and matter, self and other, appearance (fiction) and reality, ... to reveal the everything that is is a sign.' In order to accomplish this goal, Peirce's terciary concept of the sign is crucial.

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