Sign, Method and the Sacred by Jason Cronbach Van Boom Thomas-Andreas Põder

Author:Jason Cronbach Van Boom, Thomas-Andreas Põder
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2021-08-23T16:04:43.808000+00:00

Berkeley utilises language as a pragmatic [emphasis added] and enlivening instrument, a force for directing our attention to the obvious (Principles Intro 20; Euphranor in Alciphron 7.5 f). Words are not merely passive signs of static things; when combined into sentences they become dynamic. The passages on the beauties of Nature, with which his writings abound, are not mere extraneous ornaments; like the dramatic settings of Plato’s dialogues.

Following Ardley’s pragmatic analysis, it is resoundingly important that one consider the directing, active, dynamic nature of signs, rather than the passive things signified (significations), in Berkeley’s religious argument specifically against transubstantiation. It is, then, my view that the divine language of nature originally designed the sign system in Berkeley’s philosophy of language, whereby the quasi-reference of religious terms (e. g., “grace”) is meaningful or useful for changing the dispositions of human souls.

In this linguistic and religious sense implying quasi-reference, accordingly, I evaluate that what Berkeley argued for normative use of signs or terms is fundamentally essential to Peirce’s semiotic pragmatism. To this effect, in the distinction between reference and quasi-reference, Peirce’s pragmatic method can assimilate or incorporate Berkeley’s use of quasi-reference within the sign system. On their similar linguistic, semiotic views, the next section will discuss the eucharistic semiotics in view of Protestant, more narrowly Anglican, rejections of transubstantiation.

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