Gérard Deledalle

Chapitre 3. Comment rendre nos idées claires

Pour peu que l’on ait ouvert un traite moderne sur la logique telle qu’on l’enseigne d’ordinaire, on se rappellera sans doute qu’on y divise les conceptions en claires et en obscures, en distinctes et en confuses. Ces divisions se rencontrent dans les livres depuis pres de deux siecles, sans progres et sans changement, et les logiciens les mettent generalement au nombre des perles de la science. On definit idee claire une idee saisie de telle sorte qu’elle sera reconnue partout ou on la renco...

Charles S. Peirce, 1839–1914

This work is the intellectual biography of the greatest of American philosophers. Peirce was not only a pioneer in logic and the creator of a philosophical movement pragmatism he also proposed a phenomenological theory, quite different from that of Husserl, but equal in profundity; and long before Saussure, and in a totally different spirit, a semiotic theory whose present interest owes nothing to passing fashion and everything to its fecundity. Throughout his life Peirce wrote continually about sign and phenomenon (or phaneron). Consequently his writings must be studied chronologically if they are not to appear incomprehensible or contradictory. One of the merits of this book is to clarify Peirces thought by analysing its development chronologically. We follow the evolution of Peirces thought from his critique of Kantian logic and Cartesianism (Chap. I, “Leaving the Cave”: 1851-1870) to his discovery of modern logic and pragmatism (Chap. II, “The Eclipse of the Sun”: 1870-1887) and finally to a semiotic founded on a phenomenology the base of which is the logic of relations and the crowning-point scientific metaphysics (Chap. III, “The Sun Set Free”: 1887-1914). The book includes a detailed chronology, a general bibliography, and an index.

La Semiotique Peircienne Comme Metalangage: Elements Theoriques Et Esquisse D’une Application

Bien que l’etude historique de la pensee de Charles S. Peirce (1839–1914) soit indispensable pour la bonne comprehension des concepts de la semiotique peircienne, le primat est ici donne a la methode et a son application. La semiotique peircienne est en consequence decrite comme un metalangage instrumental ou le jeu des signes ou plus exactement, comme on le verra, des semioses, est moins l’objet que la methode de production et d’analyse de tout objet 1).