Bibliographic record
Abstract
Early and late, Peirce analyzed thought as a process of signproduction and sign-interpretation. But his early doctrine of "thought-signs" was deeply flawed and, therefore, he revised it drastically, changing its basic principles and greatly extending its scope. As he did that in several stages over many years - often in letters or unfinished manuscripts - what we now possess is little more than a sequence of contradictions, a series of ambitious yet unfinished sketches of elaborate but mutually incompatible structures. And yet, Peirce's work on signs cannot be ignored; for his pragmatic theory of inquiry and his synechistic account of the mind are incomplete without it. This essay traces the development of Peirce's theory of signs, or semeiotic, culminating in the mature, or post-1906, version of that theory. To speak of this mature theory at all is to speak hypothetically: it has to be constructed from the surviving manuscripts of Peirce's last years plus all that is consistent with them from his earlier writings.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".