Saturday, October 10, 2026

 The Aristotelian Pierce: the phaneroscopy

Charles Sanders Peirce(1839-1914)was the principal and unique founder of Semiotic, because has explained the valor of semiotic and his method, but the semiotic is a exercise that every day we can make, because a publicity is a the promotion of a product and we habited to it, by now not notice never, but we can recognize it because we have known the code necessary to identify it, hence our attention by now is very scant; but Peirce has deepened more and he has though three categories for to regular interpretation of this discipline, this is the semiotic: the Firstness this is the quality that is independent from everything and considered as the potential, for example: the red color and the sensations that it determined without to consider that this color belong to an object; hence the color for its alone; the Secondness: a reaction, the reality the direct reaction between two elements, this is an action and a reaction, the perception of a rumor that is improvise to the head. The Thirdness, this is the mediation between the Firstness and Secondness, this is the exact meaning that we can give to something, the word wall and the concept of danger for the collision; inasmuch the secondary thinks that are the motive for the identify the everything; after the read it can seems very original and certainly if not be original it is important, because it given to the semiotic other tools for the interpretation of everything, and through the tools also the method, and we must consider it, although obvious, as a tool for the interpretation; but the origin of this method is very ancient, because it is from the Categories of  Aristotle(b.Ch. 384-322), because the Aristotle, has, involuntary, descripted the semiotic in the Categories in ancient Greek κατηγορία, for Aristotle the principal genders of reality and language; hence he express also his think, hence it is become the semiotic, this is the Secondness of Peirce. I have already written about the semiotic of Aristotle, precisely the Aristotelian semiotic, and reaffirm this concept, through the new categories of Peirce, that are the speculative and real evolution of the think of Aristotle; but in this think we can also identify a track of Platonism, this is in the Firstness, this is the essence of something, that is in conformity with opinion of Platoon is the essence of horse, this is the essence that is deeply rooted in the nature of thing, animal or man; in the Firstness it is the red color that we have seen, independently from other characteristic, it is the essence, and Peirce, rightly, identify the Firstness to the essence, as Aristotle said about the essence, in ancient Greek ουσια, that is the more important of then categories; certainly Aristotle has took this concept from Platoon, and Peirce has took the categories and the idea of semiotic from the Aristotle, and he has developed through other adds, but the original concept of semiotic is in categories of Aristotle.

Alessandro Lusana 

 


          

 

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  The Aristotelian Pierce: the phaneroscopy Charles Sanders Peirce(1839-1914)was the principal and unique founder of Semiotic, because has...