Toward Grounding Peirce's Semiotics in a Homological Architectonic

What I believe may be helpful to construct from C. S. Peirce's work rather simple, perhaps even simple-minded: 1) the triadic nature of the sign not arbitrary and depends upon a complex of homologous relations represented by Peirce in equally trichotomous manner; 2) this complex tissue of thought not merely a function of triadomany (triadmania), but rather of the innate structure of the universe as Peirce perceived it; 3) this innate structure represented in a realist-organic which Peirce never explicitly constructed, but toward which all his thinking tends. Rulon Wells notes that Peirce's work is not a mere heap of ideas from which one can deftly pick out some [themes] while leaving the others quite behind. His concept of sign involves interpretant . . his concept of interpretant involves mind; his concept of mind generalized (to include 'quasi-mind') beyond recognition along panpsychistic lines dictated by his synechistic idealism. His pragmatism and his anti-Cartesianism must be mentioned in the same breath.' W. B. Gallie agrees that this organic unity important, but notices as well that its expression incomplete: The greatness of Peirce ... lies rather in the organic unity of his thinking, a unity which has been obscured by his own failure to present his teaching during his lifetime in a unified literary form, but partly also by the fact that he sought to test out his central doctrines on a wide variety of clearly defined issues.2 While Murray Murphey senses organic unity to have been a motivation present from the beginning,3 William Rosensohn points out that the term architectonic makes its first appearance in 1891 in the Monist article Architecture of Theories.4

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