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    Infinite chains of signs are conceptually necessary in Peirce's early account of signs.

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    • 1.Any sign must determine an interpretant in order to count as a sign.
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    • 2.Interpretants are themselves signs.
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    • 3.Since interpretants are signs, each interpretant in turn must determine a further interpretant.
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    • 1.A sign relation requires only the structural possibility of further interpretation, not the actual existence of an infinite interpretant series.
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    • 2.Confusing the rule that any sign can generate an interpretant with the claim that infinitely many interpretants must exist commits a modal fallacy.
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    • 3.Michael Shapiro and Short have shown Peirce's semiosis is better read as a disposition toward interpretants than as requiring their infinite actualization.
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    • 1.Peirce's later pragmaticism replaces infinite regress with a teleological convergence toward a final logical interpretant, making infinity dispensable.
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    • 2.The final logical interpretant is a habit of action, not itself a sign, thereby terminating the chain without contradiction.
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    As previously noted, part and parcel of Peirce’s early account of signs is that an infinity of further signs both proceed and precede from any given sign. This is a consequence of the way Peirce thinks of the elements of signs at this early stage and seems to stem from his idea that interpretants are to count as further signs, and signs are interpretants of earlier signs. Since any sign must determine an interpretant in order to count as a sign, and interpretants are themselves signs, infinite c
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