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<p>I think we need to reflect upon the circumstance that every word implies some proposition or, what is the same thing, every word, concept, symbol has an equivalent term - or one which has become identified with it, - in short, has an interpretant.

<p>I think we need to reflect upon the circumstance that every word implies some proposition or, what is the same thing, every word, concept, symbol has an equivalent term — or one which has become identified with it, — in short, has an interpretant.

Consider, what a word or symbol is;  it is a sort of representation.  Now a representation is something which stands for something.  ... A thing cannot stand for something without standing to something for that something.  Now, what is this that a word stands to?  Is it a person?</p>

Consider, what a word or symbol is;  it is a sort of representation.  Now a representation is something which stands for something.  … A thing cannot stand for something without standing to something for that something.  Now, what is this that a word stands to?  Is it a person?</p>

<p>We usually say that the word homme stands to a Frenchman for man.  It would be a little more precise to say that it stands to the Frenchman's mind - to his memory.  It is still more accurate to say that it addresses a particular remembrance or image in that memory.  And what image, what remembrance?  Plainly, the one which is the mental equivalent of the word homme - in short, its interpretant.  Whatever a word addresses then or stands to, is its interpretant or identified symbol.  ...</p>

<p>We usually say that the word homme stands to a Frenchman for man.  It would be a little more precise to say that it stands to the Frenchman's mind — to his memory.  It is still more accurate to say that it addresses a particular remembrance or image in that memory.  And what image, what remembrance?  Plainly, the one which is the mental equivalent of the word homme - in short, its interpretant.  Whatever a word addresses then or stands to, is its interpretant or identified symbol.  …</p>

<p>The interpretant of a term, then, and that which it stands to are identical.  Hence, since it is of the very essence of a symbol that it should stand to something, every symbol - every word and every conception - must have an interpretant - or what is the same thing, must have information or implication. (Peirce, CE 1, 466-467).</p>

<p>The interpretant of a term, then, and that which it stands to are identical.  Hence, since it is of the very essence of a symbol that it should stand to something, every symbol — every word and every conception — must have an interpretant — or what is the same thing, must have information or implication. (Peirce, CE 1, 466-467).</p>

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It will take a while to develop the wealth of information that a suitably perspicacious and persistent IF would find implicit in this unassuming homily.  The main innovations that this project can hope to add to the story are as follows:

It will take a while to develop the wealth of information that a suitably perspicacious and persistent IF would find implicit in this unassuming homily.  The main innovations that this project can hope to add to the story are as follows:

1. To prescribe a context of effective systems theory (C'EST), one that can provide for the computational formalization of each intuitively given interpreter as a determinate model of interpretation (MOI).  An appropriate set of concepts and methods would deal with the generic constitutions of interpreters, converting paraphrastic and periphrastic descriptions of their interpretive practice into relatively complete and concrete specifications of sign relations.

# To prescribe a context of effective systems theory (C'EST), one that can provide for the computational formalization of each intuitively given interpreter as a determinate model of interpretation (MOI).  An appropriate set of concepts and methods would deal with the generic constitutions of interpreters, converting paraphrastic and periphrastic descriptions of their interpretive practice into relatively complete and concrete specifications of sign relations.

 

# To prepare a fully dynamic basis for actualizing interpretants.  This means that an interpretant addressed by the interpretation of a sign would not be left in the form of a detached token or abstract memory image to be processed by a hypothetical but largely nondescript interpreter, but realized as a definite type of state configuration in a qualitative dynamic system.  To fathom what should be the symbolic analogue of a ''state with momentum'' has presented this project with difficulties both conceptual and terminological.  So far in this project, I have attempted to approach the character of an active sign-theoretic state in terms of an ''interpretive moment'' (IM), ''information state'' (IS), ''attended token'' (AT), ''situation of use'' (SOU), or ''instance of use'' (IOU).  A successful concept would capture the transient dispositions that drive interpreters to engage in specific forms of inquiry, defining their ongoing state of uncertainty with regard to objects and questions of immediate concern.

2. To prepare a fully dynamic basis for actualizing interpretants.  This means that an interpretant addressed by the interpretation of a sign would not be left in the form of a detached token or abstract memory image to be processed by a hypothetical but largely nondescript interpreter, but realized as a definite type of state configuration in a qualitative dynamic system.  To fathom what should be the symbolic analogue of a ''state with momentum'' has presented this project with difficulties both conceptual and terminological.  So far in this project, I have attempted to approach the character of an active sign-theoretic state in terms of an ''interpretive moment'' (IM), ''information state'' (IS), ''attended token'' (AT), ''situation of use'' (SOU), or ''instance of use'' (IOU).  A successful concept would capture the transient dispositions that drive interpreters to engage in specific forms of inquiry, defining their ongoing state of uncertainty with regard to objects and questions of immediate concern.

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