Colloquium - Dr. Chung-ying Cheng

February 16, 2:30pm - 4:30pm
Mānoa Campus, Sakamaki Hall C-308

Truth in Peirce and Chinese Philosophy As a philosopher of science and a metaphysician of pragmatism, Peirce has approached truth through his well-known maxim of pragmatism. But his pragmatism need not to be the ground for his realism. I argue that it is through his underlying intuitive perception and his logic of reasoning that he arrives at his abductive/ semiotic realism by way of what I call onto-interpretation. We can thus see his trichotomy of signs, objects and interpretant minds as embodying an endless process of truth-making through firstness, secondness and thirdness. Thus we can find an onto-hermeneutic circle of understanding and being at work which illustrates truth as a matter of tripartite relationship to the sign. By means of this Peircian approach to truth, we may see how truth in Chinese philosophy of yi 忙藴鈥 (change)茂录艗 dao茅聛鈥 (the way) and benti 忙艙卢盲陆鈥 (root-body) becomes easily understood in reference to xiang 猫卤隆 茂录藛image-form茂录鈥懊寂抴u莽鈥奥 (things or concrete qi 忙掳鈥) and li 莽聬鈥 茂录藛principle or reason茂录鈥皌hrough a system of yi-symbols . Conversely, we can see how Chinese philosophy of yi provides a clue to understanding the semiotic philosophy of Peirce.


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