Higher Order Sign Relations

[Jon Awbrey]

Higher Order Sign Relations • 1
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/03/22/higher-order-sign-relations-1-a/

Higher Order Sign Relations • Introduction —

When interpreters reflect on their use of signs they require
an appropriate technical language in which to pursue their
reflections. They need signs referring to sign relations,
signs referring to elements and components of sign relations,
and signs referring to properties and classes of sign relations.
The orders of signs developing as reflection evolves can be
organized under the heading of “higher order signs” and the
reflective sign relations involving them can be referred to
as “higher order sign relations”.

Some years ago I was formatting my old dissertation proposal
on Inquiry Driven Systems for the web when the subject of
“signs about signs” came up on the Peirce List. It called
to mind the part of my document on Higher Order Sign Relations,
a technical piece needed to ground the general concept of
Reflective Interpretive Frameworks, and the beginning of
which is quoted above.

Resources —

Inquiry Driven Systems
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Inquiry_Driven_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Overview

Reflective Interpretive Frameworks
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Inquiry_Driven_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Part_10#Reflective_Interpretive_Frameworks

Higher Order Sign Relations
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Inquiry_Driven_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Part_12#Higher_Order_Sign_Relations

Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/28/survey-of-inquiry-driven-systems-6/

Survey of Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/26/survey-of-semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-5/

Regards,

Jon