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Peirce and the mark of the gryphon
- Title
- Peirce and the mark of the gryphon / Roberta Kevelson.
- Author
- Kevelson, Roberta.
- Publication
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | B945.P4 K48 1999 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xvi, 239 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "Peirce and the Mark of the Gryphon draws from the unpublished manuscripts of American semiotician Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) to explore how he conceived of the evolution of thought, from instinct and imagination, as in myth, to ideas that are exchangeable units of meaning. This illuminating volume further examines Peirce's cosmology as open-ended, nonfinite, and self-organizing. Kevelson has undertaken the first comprehensive study of Peircean process - from imagination/idea to idea as thought."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Semaphores and signs
- Uniform Title
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- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-233) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Why a Gryphon? The Life and Work of Roberta Kevelson / William Pencak -- pt. I. Peirce's Saltus: No Leap of Faith. 1. The Garden Path. 2. Myth as Firstness. 3. Interpreting Gardens. 4. Classification and Enclosure. 5. Design -- pt. II. To Discover Forms of Signs. 6. Peirce's Mathematical Thinking: Exploring Hypotheses and Other Possibilities. 7. Complex Ideas and How They Grow. 8. Cliches and Interpretants -- pt. III. Taking the Fork in the Road. 9. On the Town: The Evolving Square. 10. On the Town Again: From Plot to Market -- pt. IV. Of "Hard Words" and "Dark Spots" 11. The Changing Landscape of "Rights": Hybrids and Relations. 12. Dissent and the Anarchic in Legal Counterculture. 13. Creative Crime.
- ISBN
- 0312176945
- 9780312176945
- LCCN
- 99023098
- OCLC
- ocm41096129
- 41096129
- SCSB-870234
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library