Abstract

There is a general consensus among scholars of Charles S. Peirce that his work was highly systematic, but not all agree that it constitutes a single consistent system. Sometimes the controversy on this question becomes a determining context for studies of specific aspects of Peirce’s work. For instance, Mayorga (2007, 3) expresses the hope that her study of Peirce’s realist metaphysics will “resolve some of the polemic regarding the coherence of his system.” With reference to Peircean semeiotic, Bergman (2009, 3–4) describes a spectrum of views on the relations between his early and late work:In recent years, the question of the development of Peirce’s theory of signs has become a rather contentious topic. In..