TY - JOUR AU - Merrell, Floyd PY - 2010/12/01 Y2 - 2024/03/19 TI - Resemblance: From a complementarity point of view? JF - Sign Systems Studies JA - SSS VL - 38 IS - 1/4 SE - Articles DO - 10.12697/SSS.2010.38.1-4.04 UR - https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/sss/article/view/SSS.2010.38.1-4.04 SP - 91-129 AB - 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 logic as a subset. Certain aspects of the Dao, Buddhist philosophy, and Donald Davidson’s ‘radical interpretation’ afford additional, and perhaps unexpected, support for the initial set of three premises. ER -