2006年10月13日 · Peirce’s Sign Theory, or Semiotic, is an account of signification, representation, reference and meaning. Although sign theories have a long history, Peirce’s accounts are distinctive and innovative for their breadth and complexity, and for capturing the importance of interpretation to signification.

查尔斯·桑德斯·皮尔斯 （Charles Sanders Peirce，1839–1914）在1860年代开始撰写关于 符號學 （semiotics）的研究，其意思是对 符号 的哲学研究，当时他设计了三个范畴的系统。 到20世纪，“符号学”一词的内涵扩展到所有关于符号的研究动向，包括 费迪南·德·索绪尔 从语言学出发，另行独自发展起来的符号学（semiology）传统。 皮尔斯是一位创新性和頗有成就的逻辑学家、数学家兼科学家，创立了哲學 实用主义。 皮尔斯符号学理论的中心思想集中在 逻辑 和 表征 上。

Charles Sanders Peirce began writing on semiotics, which he also called semeiotics, meaning the philosophical study of signs, in the 1860s, around the time that he devised his system of three categories.

《皮尔斯：论符号》是一部由 (美) 查尔斯·桑德斯·皮尔斯 等所著 书籍， 四川大学出版社 出版发行。 皮尔斯（Charles Sanders Peirce）是 符号学 最主要的创始人。 《皮尔斯：论符号》 [1] 全书近27万字，分为两大部分，主体部分是符号学最主要的 创始人 皮尔斯关于这门科学的论述集合，这是皮尔斯符号学文献第一次比较完整的中译本；书中许多皮尔斯的原创观点是第一次以中文的形式展现出来，具有极高的学术参考价值。 本书另一部分是由前 美国 皮尔斯学会会长李斯 …

The other major semiotic theory, developed by Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914), defines the sign as a triadic relation as "something that stands for something, to someone in some capacity". [1] .

First, we may have a primary interest in it for itself. Second, we may have a secondary interest in it, on account of its reactions with other things. Third, we may have a mediatory interest in it, in so far as it conveys to a mind an idea about a thing. In so far as it does this, it is a sign, or representation. §3. There are three kinds of ...

Peirce calls the "sign -object," but it is also a process which he calls the "sign-action" or semiosis. The three formalistic elements of a sign-object become func-

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is rapidly becoming recognized as the greatest American philosopher. At the center of his philosophy was a revolutionary mode...

Short distinguishes Peirce’s mature theory of signs from his better-known but paradoxical early theory. He develops the mature theory systematically on the basis of Peirce’s phenomenological categories and concept of final causation.

Peirce divides logic, when conceived as semeiotic, into (i) speculative grammar, the preliminary analysis, definition, and classification of those signs that can be used by a scientific intelligence; (ii) critical logic, the study of the validity and justification of each kind of reasoning; and (iii) methodeutic or speculative rhetoric, the theo...