Deictic Imaginings: Semiosis at Work and at Play by Donna E West

Author:Donna E West
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg

5.3 The Degenerate and Genuine Index

Peirce’s account of Index does not clearly distinguish between Degenerate and Genuine instances until 1903 in his third Harvard Lecture:The Genuine Index represents the duality between the representamen and its object. As a whole it stands for the object; but a part or element of it represents [it] as being the Representamen, by being an Icon or analogue of the object in some way; and by virtue of that duality, it conveys information about the object.

A Degenerate Index is a representamen which represents a single object because it is factually connected with it, but which conveys no information whatever (EP 2:171–172, italics Peirce’s).

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