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    It is not the case that Sign theory (speculative grammar) is more central to Peirce's account of inquiry than previously recognized.

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    • 1.Peirce's own mature architectonic places Methodeutic, not Speculative Grammar, as the culminating branch most directly governing inquiry's conduct.
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    • 2.Speculative Grammar merely classifies sign types without prescribing inferential norms, making it a prolegomenon to logic rather than its operative core.
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    • 3.W.B. Gallie and subsequent pragmatism scholars have argued that Peirce's theory of inquiry is fundamentally driven by his normative account of abduction, which belongs to Critical Logic, not sign theory.
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    • 1.The historical record shows Peirce repeatedly subordinated semiotic to his phenomenological categories, suggesting sign theory inherits its structure from phaneroscopy rather than generating it.
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    • 2.If sign theory's centrality to inquiry depends on its connection to Methodeutic, the argument proves only that Speculative Grammar is instrumentally useful, not architectonically foundational.
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    • 1.Logic, in Peirce's architectonic system, contains three branches: Speculative Grammar, Critical Logic, and Methodeutic.
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    • 2.Sign theory corresponds to Speculative Grammar.
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    • 3.Peirce came to see sign theory as more clearly connected to the logic of scientific discovery (Methodeutic).
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