Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1."Aims and Conclusions -- 2."Necessary Presuppositions to reach the Conclusion -- 3."Semiotic Theory and Philosophical Background: The Boundary of the Present Work -- 4."Temporal Development of Peirce's Ideas -- 5."The Standing of the Presen…
The semiotics of Charles S. Peirce is conceived as an essential part of a comprehensive philosophical outlook. The study of signs is carried on for its bearing on the knowledge of reality; therefore the relation of signs to objects is the core concern of Peirce?s semiotics. This…
The book is devoted to the study of the sign-object relation in the semiotics of Charles Peirce. It puts this issue in the context of Peirce's philosophy of knowledge and of reality and individuates the final causality as the foundation of the semiotic relation, which gains its …