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Re: [xmca] Body expression as sign.



Andy,
you wrote:


> For Peirce a sign is not a means of communication at all. The sign is part
> of a triad along with interpretant and object, and there is no subject
> there. For French semiology the sign is a message sent by the subject to
> the object, and this is the source of the idealism Gadamer complains of.
> Peirce's standpoint opens up natural processes and aesthetic processes for
> objective analysis and gives an objective basis for communication as well.
>
>
I though that this was one of the best summaries of the value of Peirce's
triadic view of the sign that I've ever heard. Very nicely and succinctly
put!

-greg

-- 
Gregory A. Thompson, Ph.D.
Sanford I. Berman Post-Doctoral Scholar
Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition
Department of Communication
University of California, San Diego
http://ucsd.academia.edu/GregoryThompson
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