Triadism and processuality

Authors

  • Juuso-Ville Gustafsson Department of Philosophy, University of Turku, 20014 Turku

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12697/SSS.2015.43.4.04

Keywords:

triadism, process metaphysics, processualism, irreducibility of triads, irreducibility of processes, Peircean semiotics, conceptual processualism

Abstract

This paper examines the connections between triadism and processuality in Peirce’s semiotics by comparing two reducibility theses. Peirce’s thesis regarding the irreducibility of triads and its corollary in semiotics, the irreducibility of signs, is compared with the process metaphysical thesis regarding the irreducibility of processes. The comparison indicates that (1) there is a connection between the irreducibility of signs and the irreducibility of processes; (2) that the triadic condition of the sign entails process metaphysical commitments; and this in turn (3) urges us to consider the ontology of the sign from a process metaphysical perspective.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Downloads

Published

2015-12-31

How to Cite

Gustafsson, J.-V. (2015). Triadism and processuality. Sign Systems Studies, 43(4), 438–445. https://doi.org/10.12697/SSS.2015.43.4.04