Author: Merrell F.

Source: Contemporary Pragmatism, Volume 1, Number 1, 1 June 2004 , pp. 61-81(21)

Publisher: Rodopi

Abstract:

Meinongian 'objects' are evoked in an effort to critique and expand upon traditional theories of reference. The argument stems from an account of Peirce's categories of meaning in light of vague, contradictory, inconsistent, general, incomplete, and incompleteable signs. In addition to signs as either 'true', 'false', or meaningless, the function of imaginary numbers reveals the possibility of a sign's being both 'true' and 'false' or neither 'true' nor 'false', over time, and dialogically speaking. This demands a tolerance for vagueness, ambiguity, contradiction, and incessantly changing meaning.

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Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2004-06-01

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