...philosophy called "semiotics" that saw all of human experience as a system of signs. According to Peirce, "the woof and warp of all thought and all research...life of thought and science is the life inherent in symbols."77 Like Lambert, Peirce emphasized that the signs used in communication were not limited to...

...Savan: 63). In one of the most famous passages from all of Peirce's writings, we learn that, for him, "the woof and warp of all thought and all research...thought and science is the life inherent in symbols ..." (CP2.220; emphasis added). The image of inherently static or inert objects being mechanically...