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Taxonomy vs Representamen - What's the difference?

taxonomy | representamen |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and representamen

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while representamen is a representation, a thing serving to represent something (as to an interpreting mind) it is a representation in the sense of something which represents'', as opposed to its ''operation or relation'' of representing, and also as opposed to a ''process or activity of representing, which produces it (the produced representamen can itself seem or be a process or activity, for example a song or a theatrical performance, or a rock's tumbling in an informative way, or a logical argument).

taxonomy

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
  • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    representamen

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (rfc-def) A representation, a thing serving to represent something (as to an interpreting mind). It is a representation in the sense of something which represents'', as opposed to its ''operation or relation'' of representing, and also as opposed to a ''process or activity of representing, which produces it. (The produced representamen can itself seem or be a process or activity, for example a song or a theatrical performance, or a rock's tumbling in an informative way, or a logical argument).
  • * circa'' 1897 : [aut.] and Justus Buchler [ed.], ''Philosophical Writings of Peirce'', chapter 7: “Logic as Semiotic: The Theory of Signs”, § 1: “What is a Sign? Three Divisions of Logic”, page 99 (from a ''circa'' 1897 manuscript (''CP'' 2.227–9), first published in the 1940 selection ''The Philosophy of Peirce: Selected Writings'', and later reprinted ''sic in 1955 by Dover Publications, Inc., New York; ISBN 0486202178, 9780486202174)
  • A sign, or representamen , is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity.
  • * (William Hamilton)
  • Quotations

    * "I confine the word representation'' to the operation of a sign or its ''relation'' to the object ''for'' the interpreter of the representation. The concrete subject that represents I call a sign or a ''representamen''." — , v. 1, paragraph 540. Eprint. * "Possibly there may be Representamens that are not Signs." — C. S. Peirce, "A Syllabus of Certain Topics of Logic", 1903, the v. 2, pp. 272-3. Eprint. * "It is the science of what is quasi-necessarily true of the representamina of any scientific intelligence in order that they may hold good of any object, that is, may be true." — C. S. Peirce, Collected Papers v. 2, paragraph 229. Eprint. * Four instances of "representamina" used by , Four Ages of Understanding (2001, U of Toronto Press), p. 726, Google Books limited preview Eprint

    See also

    * sign

    References

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