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    It is not the case that Sign chains tend towards a definite but idealized end rather than progressing ad infinitum.

    ?Set your confidence on the premises below to see your aggregate.

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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