Moving pictures of thought II

Graphs, games, and pragmaticism's proof

Bibliographic Data

ID4872337
AuthorsAhti-Veikko Pietarinen (0000-0003-4855-8110, University of Helsinki, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume2011
Issue186
Publication date2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSemiotica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0037-1998 • E-ISSN: 1613-3692
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/semi.2011.058
OpenAlexW2316319884
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited5

Peirce believed that his pragmaticism can be conclusively proven. Beginning in 1903, he drafted several attempts, ending by 1908 with a semeiotic proof. Around 1905, he exposes the proof using the theory of Existential Graphs (EGs). This paper modernizes the semantics Peirce proposed for EGs in terms of game-theoretic semantics (GTS). Peirce's 1905 proof is then reconstructed in three parts, by (1) relating pragmaticism to the GTS conception of meaning, (2) showing that Peirce's proof is an argument for a relational structure of the meaning of intellectual signs that our interpretative and strategic practices give rise to, and (3) bringing out the key links between EGs and pragmaticism

Argument (complex analysis) · Constructive proof · Discrete mathematics · Epistemology · Existentialism · Key (lock) · Linguistics · Mathematical proof · Meaning (existential) · Proof theory · Semantics (computer science) · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Mathematics · Philosophy · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications

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