LEADER 04606nam 2200757 450 001 9910456316603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-7833-X 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442678330 035 $a(CKB)2430000000001722 035 $a(EBL)3296792 035 $a(OCoLC)923098930 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001403483 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12605468 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001403483 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11370476 035 $a(PQKB)11337647 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000305694 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11239222 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000305694 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10293311 035 $a(PQKB)11748878 035 $a(CaPaEBR)417700 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600896 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3251307 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671816 035 $a(DE-B1597)464741 035 $a(OCoLC)944177784 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442678330 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671816 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257509 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL199768 035 $a(OCoLC)958581219 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000001722 100 $a20160923h19971997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPeirce, signs, and meaning /$fFloyd Merrell 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1997. 210 4$dİ1997 215 $a1 online resource (282 p.) 225 1 $aToronto Studies in Semiotics 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8020-4135-3 311 $a0-8020-7982-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $tPreamble: Is Meaning Possible within Indefinite Semiosis -- $t1. Our Blissful Unknowing Knowing -- $t2. The Self as a Sign among Signs -- $t3. Thought-Signs: Jungle or Wasteland? -- $t4. Sign-Events Meet Thought-Signs -- $t5. The Sign: Mirror or Lamp? -- $t6. Whither Meaning, Then? -- $t7. Fabricated Rather than Found -- $t8. What Else Is a Self-Respecting Sign to Do? -- $t9. Caught Within -- $t10. Dreaming the Impossible Dream? -- $t11. How We Can Go Wrong -- $t12. Rules Are There to Be Broken? -- $t13. From Conundrum to Quality Icon -- $t14. Out of Sign, Out of Mind -- $t15. Putting the Body Back in the Sign -- $tAppendix: On the Pragmatic Maxim -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aC.S. Peirce was the founder of pragmatism and a pioneer in the field of semiotics. His work investigated the problem of meaning, which is the core aspect of semiosis as well as a significant issue in many academic fields. Floyd Merrell demonstrates throughout Peirce, Signs, and Meaning that Peirce's views remain dynamically relevant to the analysis of subsequent work in the philosophy of language.Merrell discusses Peirce's thought in relation to that of early twentieth-century philosophers such as Frege, Russell, and Quine, and contemporaries such as Goodman, Putnam, Davidson, and Rorty. In doing so, Merrell demonstrates how quests for meaning inevitably fall victim to vagueness in pursuit of generality, and how vagueness manifests an inevitable tinge of inconsistency, just as generalities always remain incomplete. He suggests that vagueness and incompleteness/generality, overdetermination and underdetermination, and Peirce's phenomenological categories of Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness must be incorporated into notions of sign structure for a proper treatment of meaning. He also argues that the twentieth-century search for meaning has placed overbearing stress on language while ignoring nonlinguistic sign modes and means.Peirce, Signs, and Meaning is an important sequel to Merrell's trilogy, Signs Becoming Signs', Semiosis in the Postmodern Age; and Signs Grow. This book is not only a significant contribution to the field of semiotics, it has much to offer scholars in literature, philosophy, linguistics, cultural studies, and other academic disciplines in which meaning is a central concern. 410 0$aToronto studies in semiotics. 606 $aMeaning (Philosophy)$xHistory 606 $aSemiotics$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMeaning (Philosophy)$xHistory. 615 0$aSemiotics$xHistory. 676 $a121.68 700 $aMerrell$b Floyd$f1937-$0457596 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456316603321 996 $aPeirce, signs, and meaning$92492141 997 $aUNINA