By Dr Andrew Robinson
Christianity has been defined as "a faith looking a metaphysic." Drawing at the philosophy of C. S. Peirce, Robinson develops a metaphysical framework targeted round a 'semiotic version' of the Trinity. The version invitations a clean method of the declare that Jesus used to be the incarnate notice of God and indicates a brand new manner of figuring out how nature could endure the imprint of the Triune writer within the type of 'vestiges of the Trinity in creation'. medical spin-offs contain a brand new standpoint at the challenge of the beginning of existence and a singular speculation concerning the evolution of human strong point. the result's an unique contribution to Trinitarian theology and a daring new means of integrating philosophy, technological know-how and faith.
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245–279), a partially completed draft for a book that was never published, Peirce gives the following introduction to the three categories that survived from the New List and continued to underpin his whole philosophical scheme: I make so much use of three-fold divisions in my speculations, that it seems best to commence by making a slight preliminary study of the conceptions upon which all such divisions must rest. I mean no more than the ideas of First, Second, Third, – ideas so broad that they may be looked upon rather as moods or tones of thought, than as definite notions, but which have great significance for all that.
Therefore no reason can be given for preferring sense to nonsense (one interpretation over another). One of the reasons that this problem arises is that since, in Peirce’s early semiotics, there is no reference to a relation of sign to object prior to interpretation, there are no constraints on interpretation which could provide the basis of criteria for distinguishing between useful and useless interpretants of that sign. 41 P3. Just as the infinite progressus of thought-signs in the early theory is unsatisfactory (P1), so is the infinite regressus.
Peirce: Philosopher, Semiotician and Ecstatic Naturalist (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 1993), 135. 24 Don D. Roberts, The Existential Graphs of C. S. Peirce (The Hague: Mouton de Gruyter, 1973). 25 The graphs simply consisted of dots and lines drawn on a piece of paper. According to Peirce, Firstness – sheer “something” – can be represented by a dot on the paper. However, the dot then divides the paper into two parts, one white and one black, thus introducing the otherness of Secondness. Furthermore, this otherness can be alternatively represented by two separate dots.
