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“Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of...”
– Edward Sapir
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Peirce's Reality
Peircian semiotics is based around Peirce’s distinction between three ways of being —- Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness. For Peirce, these three irreducible categories constitute both the different kinds of human thought and, more generally, the planes of reality. Thus, Peirce’s ways of being are pre-semiotic. The distinction between these three realms permeates...