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Layer 4: f = sign production; g = sign interpretation; h = grounding

Layer 5: f = description; g = abstraction, generalization, theorizing;

h = intersubjective correspondence

In Figure 10.17, representamen is considered to be Secondness,

whereas Peirce often (if not always) seems to consider it as Firstness.

The age-old debate about realism, nominalism and idealism may be

resolved by viewing these isms as the prescinded aspects of the irreduci-

ble triad of reality, names, and ideas (see Layer 5).

To the extent that the speculations embodied in Figure 10.17 turn out

to be valid, to that extent, ITR may be considered to provide a guiding

principle for organizing philosophies and special sciences in agreement

with the architectonic theory of human knowledge constructed by Peirce.

10.11 Practopoiesis

D. Nikolic [388] recently proposed a theory about the mind–body rela-

tion called “practopoiesis” (or “making actions”). I am not a mind–body

researcher, but, to a theoretical cell biologist which I am, Nikolic’s the-

ory of mind sounds reasonable. This impression is based on my finding

that practopoiesis (see Figure 10.18) can be viewed as a member of the

ur-category (diagrammed in Figure 10.9) along with other fundamental

semiotic processes, including self-organizing chemical reactions (SOCR;

Figure 10.19), enzyme catalysis (Figure 10.20), and gene expression

(Figure 10.21), all of which being essential for practopoiesis (but only the

last process was explicitly mentioned in [388]). I tried to arrange these

f g

1 PhaneronCybersemiotic Star Genergy Tetrahedron

2 (Phenomenon) (Phaneroscopy) (Models/Theories/Habits)

3 [Firstness] [Secondness] [Thirdness]

4 <Object> <Representamen> <Interpretant>

5 {Reality} {Names} {Ideas}

h

Figure 10.17 ITR as the organizing principle of human knowing.

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