Peirce on signs : writings on semiotic / by Charles Sanders Peirce ; edited by James Hoopes.

By: Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914 [author.]Contributor(s): Hoopes, James, 1944- [editor.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1991©1991 Description: viii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0807843423 (paperback)Subject(s): Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914 | SemioticsLOC classification: P85.P38 P45 1991Summary: Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is rapidly becoming recognized as the greatest American philosopher. At the center of his philosophy was a revolutionary model of the way human beings think. Peirce, a logician, challenged traditional models by describing thoughts not as "ideas" but as "signs," external to the self and without meaning unless interpreted by a subsequent thought. His general theory of signs -- or semiotic -- is especially pertinent to methodologies currently being debated in many disciplines.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-280) and index.

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is rapidly becoming recognized as the greatest American philosopher. At the center of his philosophy was a revolutionary model of the way human beings think. Peirce, a logician, challenged traditional models by describing thoughts not as "ideas" but as "signs," external to the self and without meaning unless interpreted by a subsequent thought. His general theory of signs -- or semiotic -- is especially pertinent to methodologies currently being debated in many disciplines.