Jon Awbrey<p>Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 4<br>• <a href="https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/01/09/interpreter-and-interpretant-selection-4-a/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/01</span><span class="invisible">/09/interpreter-and-interpretant-selection-4-a/</span></a></p><p>Interpretation and Inquiry —</p><p>To illustrate the role of sign relations in inquiry we begin with Dewey's elegant and simple example of reflective thinking in everyday life.</p><p>❝A man is walking on a warm day. The sky was clear the last time he observed it; but presently he notes, while occupied primarily with other things, that the air is cooler. It occurs to him that it is probably going to rain; looking up, he sees a dark cloud between him and the sun, and he then quickens his steps. What, if anything, in such a situation can be called thought? Neither the act of walking nor the noting of the cold is a thought. Walking is one direction of activity; looking and noting are other modes of activity. The likelihood that it will rain is, however, something suggested. The pedestrian feels the cold; he thinks of clouds and a coming shower.❞ (John Dewey, How We Think, 6–7).</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Peirce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Peirce</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Logic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Logic</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Semiotics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Semiotics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Semiosis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Semiosis</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/SignRelations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SignRelations</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/TriadicRelations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TriadicRelations</span></a> <br><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Cybersemiotics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cybersemiotics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Interpreter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Interpreter</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Interpretant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Interpretant</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Hermeneutics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hermeneutics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Hermenaut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hermenaut</span></a> <br><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/JohnDewey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JohnDewey</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/HowWeThink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HowWeThink</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Inquiry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Inquiry</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Abduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Abduction</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Deduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Deduction</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Induction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Induction</span></a> <br><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Abstraction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Abstraction</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/HypostaticAbstraction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HypostaticAbstraction</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Reflection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reflection</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Interpretation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Interpretation</span></a></p>