Natural Propositions: The Actuality of Peirce's Doctrine of Dicisigns (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780988744967)

Natural Propositions is about the desirable consequence of Charles Peirce's conception of propositions; namely, that they are no strangers to a naturalist world-view and thus form natural inhabitants of reality. This is because propositions---in Peirce's generalization: Dicisigns---do not depend upon human language nor upon human consciousness or intentionality, contrary to most standard assumptions. In addition to a careful consideration of Peirce's work, the book includes numerous examples of Dicisigns in nature as firefly signaling and vervet monkey alarm calls.

Author: Frederik Stjernfelt
ISBN-10: 0988744961
ISBN-13: 9780988744967
Publisher: Docent Press
Language: English
Published: 04/18/2014
Pages: 340
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.71d