-
5Shouldn't We be Surprised that We are Not Surprised when We Should be Surprised?Semiotica 2005 (153 - 1/4): 85-100. 2005.
-
51Toward a concept of pluralistic, inter-relational semiosisSign Systems Studies 35 (1-2): 9-68. 2007.Brief consideration of (1) Peirce’s ‘logic of vagueness’, (2) his categories, and (3) the concepts of overdetermination and underdetermination, vagueness and generality, and inconsistency and incompleteness, along with (4) the abrogation of classical Aristotelian principles of logic, bear out the complexity of all relatively rich sign systems. Given this complexity, there is semiotic indeterminacy, which suggests sign limitations, and at the same time it promises semiotic freedom, giving rise to…Read more
-
13. Thought-Signs: Jungle or Wasteland?In Peirce, Signs, and Meaning, University of Toronto Press. pp. 71-97. 1997.
-
6Signs Grow: Semiosis and Life ProcessesHeritage. 1996.This is the third volume in Floyd Merrell's trilogy on semiotics focusing on Peirce's categories of Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness. In this book the author argues that there are passageways linking the social sciences with the physical sciences, and signs with life processes. This is not a study of the semiotics of life, but rather of semiosis as a living process. Merrell attempts to articulate the links between thought that is rooted in that which can be quantified and thought that resist…Read more
-
6Semiosis in the Postmodern AgePurdue University Press. 1995."Who are we to suppose we are capable of comprehending the world of which we are a part, and what is the world to suppose it can be understood by us, minuscule and insignificant spatiotemporal warps contained within it?" This provocative question opens Floyd Merrell's study of postmodernism and the thought of Charles Sanders Peirce, part of the author's ongoing effort to understand our contemporary cultural and intellectual environment. The specific focus in this interdisciplinary study is the m…Read more
-
9Semiotics and Literary StudiesThe Commens Encyclopedia: The Digital Encyclopedia of Peirce Studies. 2002.Saussurean semiology came into its own during the 1950s and 1960s, and in the 1970s it began giving ground to the exceedingly more inclusive semiotic concept of the sign developed by Charles S. Peirce. While in literary studies the Saussurean view has generally held rein, during the past two decades attention has turned increasingly toward Peirce. Much work remains for the enterprising scholar, however.
-
26Sign, mind, time, space: Contradictory complementary coalescenceSemiotica 2009 (177): 29-116. 2009.
-
5A fascinating exploration of the connections among science, art, and literature.
-
34. Sign-Events Meet Thought-SignsIn Peirce, Signs, and Meaning, University of Toronto Press. pp. 98-117. 1997.
-
8Peirce, Signs, and MeaningUniversity of Toronto Press. 1997.C.S. Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, was an American philosopher and mathematician whose influence has been enormous on the field of semiotics. Merrell uses Pierce's theories to reply to the all-important question: "What and where is meaning?"
-
115. Putting the Body Back in the SignIn Peirce, Signs, and Meaning, University of Toronto Press. pp. 315-342. 1997.
-
9SarnasusSign Systems Studies 38 (1/4): 129-129. 2010.Three premises set the stage for a Peirce based notion of resemblance, which, as Firstness, cannot be more than vaguely distinguished from Secondness and Thirdness. Inclusion of Firstness with, and within, Secondness and Thirdness, calls for a nonbivalent, nonlinear, context dependent mode of thinking characteristic of semiosis — that is, the process by which everything is always becoming something other than what it was becoming — and at the same time it includes linear, bivalent classical logi…Read more
-
17Life Before Matter, Possible Signification Before Tangible Signs: Towards a Mediating ViewCosmos and History : The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 4 (1-2): 99-112. 2008.Life is a creative response to creative nature. This notion heeds Norm Hirstrsquo;s call, by way of Robert Rosen, that life as creativity follows a lsquo;logicrsquo; that is radically distinct from classical logical principles. This alternate lsquo;logicrsquo; of creative life follows differentiating Identity and Included-Middle Principles. Charles S. Peircersquo;s process philosophy and his concept of the sign, offer a sense of the nonlinear, nonmechanistic, creative emergence of signs and life…Read more
-
2Preamble: Is Meaning Possible within Indefinite SemiosisIn Peirce, Signs, and Meaning, University of Toronto Press. pp. 1-22. 1997.
-
212. Rules Are There to Be Broken?In Peirce, Signs, and Meaning, University of Toronto Press. pp. 245-272. 1997.
-
3Pluralistliku ja suhestusliku semioosi mõiste suunas. KokkuvõteSign Systems Studies 35 (1-2): 69-70. 2007.
-
18ResemblanceSign Systems Studies 38 (1/4): 91-128. 2010.Three premises set the stage for a Peirce based notion of resemblance, which, as Firstness, cannot be more than vaguely distinguished from Secondnessand Thirdness. Inclusion of Firstness with, and within, Secondness and Thirdness, calls for a nonbivalent, nonlinear, context dependent mode of thinkingcharacteristic of semiosis — that is, the process by which everything is always becoming something other than what it was becoming — and at the same time itincludes linear, bivalent classical logic a…Read more
-
13ResemblanceSign Systems Studies 38 (1-4): 91-128. 2010.Three premises set the stage for a Peirce based notion of resemblance, which, as Firstness, cannot be more than vaguely distinguished from Secondnessand Thirdness. Inclusion of Firstness with, and within, Secondness and Thirdness, calls for a nonbivalent, nonlinear, context dependent mode of thinkingcharacteristic of semiosis — that is, the process by which everything is always becoming something other than what it was becoming — and at the same time itincludes linear, bivalent classical logic a…Read more
-
11Lotmani semiosfäär, Peirce'i kategooriad ja kultuuri eluvormid. KokkuvõteSign Systems Studies 29 (2): 415-415. 2001.
-
18""Neither" True" nor" False" nor Meaningless: Meditation on the Pragmatics of Knowing BecomingContemporary Pragmatism 1 (1): 61-81. 2004.Meinongian 'objects' are evoked in an effort to critique and expand upon traditional theories of reference. The argument stems from an account of Peirce's categories of meaning in light of vague, contradictory, inconsistent, general, incomplete, and incompleteable signs. In addition to signs as either 'true', 'false', or meaningless, the function of imaginary numbers reveals the possibility of a sign's being both 'true' and 'false' or neither 'true' nor 'false', over time, and dialogically speak…Read more
-
7Is Meaning Possible with Indefinite Semiosis?American Journal of Semiotics 10 (3/4): 167-196. 1993.