TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peirce,Charles S.
AU  - Hoopes,James
TI  - Peirce on signs: writings on semiotic 
SN  - 0807843423
AV  - P85.P38 P45 1991
PY  - 1991///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Peirce, Charles S.
KW  - Semiotics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-280) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -