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Iconismo primario e gnoseologia semiotica: un percorso tra Peirce ed Eco / Primary Iconism and Semiotic Gnoseology: an Itinerary between Peirce and Eco

in Versus n. 120, Peirceana three. Sull’iconismo / On Iconism, pp.135-150

Abstract (italiano)

In this paper I will examine the notion of “Primary Iconism” by Umberto Eco and I will connect it to Peirce’s ideas from which it has been developed, with particular attention to the notions of intuition, index, cognition and the category of Secondness. I will affirm that the original formulation in Kant and the Platypus is not compatible with Peircean anti-intuitionism, but the changes made by Eco in “The Threshold and the Infinity” are. I will finally discuss the theses by Murphey, Short, Fumagalli and Gava that support a Peircean return to intuition, which is supposed to deny the original positions of the anti-Cartesian essays, and I will reject these theses.