{"product_id":"peirce-signs-meaning-floyd-merrell-9780802079824","title":"Peirce, Signs, and Meaning","description":"\u003cp\u003eC.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 \u003cem\u003ePeirce, Signs, and Meaning\u003c\/em\u003e that Peirce's views remain dynamically relevant to the analysis of subsequent work in the philosophy of language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMerrell 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePeirce, Signs, and\u003c\/em\u003e Meaning is an important sequel to Merrell's trilogy, \u003cem\u003eSigns Becoming Signs'\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSemiosis in the Postmodern Age, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSigns Grow\u003c\/em\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Floyd Merrell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0802079822\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802079824\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/24\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 402\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.36w x 1.09d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Floyd Merrell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44059739881727,"sku":"9780802079824","price":51.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7bc329fd-6532-4155-a8f5-1011deb5b697.jpg?v=1685060047","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/peirce-signs-meaning-floyd-merrell-9780802079824","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}