Sheets, Diagrams, and Realism in Peirce

This book investigates a number of central problems in the philosophy of Charles Peirce grouped around the realism of his semiotics: the issue of how sign systems are developed and used in the investigation of reality.

Thus, it deals with the precise character of Peirce''s realism; with Peirce''s special notion of propositions as signs which, at the same time, denote and describe the same object....