Higher Order Sign Relations • Discussion

[Jon Awbrey]

Higher Order Sign Relations • Discussion 1
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/03/27/higher-order-sign-relations-discussion-1-a/

Re: FB | Charles S. Peirce Society • John Corcoran
• https://www.facebook.com/groups/peircesociety/posts/1768975423238442/

Questions about the proper treatment of use and mention from
the standpoint of Peirce’s theory of signs came up recently
in discussions on Facebook. In pragmatic semiotics the
trade‑off between “signs-of-objects” and “signs-as-objects”
opens up the wider space of Higher Order Sign Relations.
In previous work on Inquiry Driven Systems I introduced
the subject in the following way.

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”.

References —

John Corcoran
• https://johncorcoran.academia.edu/

Schemata : The Concept of Schema in the History of Logic
• https://www.academia.edu/12691868/SCHEMATA_THE_CONCEPT_OF_SCHEMA_IN_THE_HISTORY_OF_LOGIC

Use And Mention, Use Without Mention, Mention Without Use
• https://www.academia.edu/s/ea64a3484e/schemata#comment_525151

Resources —

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