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Torkild Thellefsen

The revised fundamental sign

According to Charles S. Peirce we have to take responsibility for our scienti?c concepts. Having introduced the scienti?c world to a concept we have to revise it whenever further investigation alters the meaning of the concept. This article revises the de?nition of the fundamental sign, a concept developed by me and thus my responsibility. I de?ne it in relation to Peirce’s formal conditions for communication and community. These formal conditions make it possible to understand the fundamental sign as part of a discourse community, carrying the qualities of the community ? the sense of community.

Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 0037-1998
Volume: 2005, 06/2005
Pages: 51 - 63

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