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    Sign chains tend towards a definite but idealized end rat... — Carmelics
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    Sign chains tend towards a definite but idealized end rather than progressing ad infinitum.

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    • 1.The process of inquiry is end-directed, moving from doubt-prone to doubt-proof beliefs.
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    • 2.Peirce came to see the semiotic process as having a similar end-directedness to the process of inquiry.
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    • 3.At the idealized end of inquiry, a complete understanding of some object is reached, requiring no further interpretant.
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    • 1.Derrida's critique of presence shows that any purported 'final interpretant' merely defers meaning to further signs, never achieving closure.
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    • 2.If every sign necessarily functions by differing from and deferring to other signs, no sign can terminate the chain without presupposing further interpretation.
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    • 3.Peirce's 'final interpretant' thus smuggles in a metaphysical endpoint that his own relational semiotics structurally cannot accommodate.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations demonstrate that no determinate fact fixes the correct application of any sign beyond actual practice.
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    • 2.If rule-following is constitutively open-ended and community-dependent, the regulative ideal of a complete, doubt-proof interpretation has no coherent stopping condition.
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    • 3.The teleological structure Peirce borrows from inquiry therefore imports a normative closure that semiotic practice itself cannot deliver.
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    During the last part of his life the majority of Peirce’s philosophical output concerned semiotic, and he developed his account of signs far beyond the 1903 theory. There seem to be two reasons for this. First, Peirce was geographically and intellectually isolated and his main outlet was correspondence with the English woman, Lady Victoria Welby. Welby wrote on various philosophical topics and shared Peirce’s interests in signs and meaning. This seems to have given Peirce a willing and sympathet
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