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Comunicação e Ética: O sistema semiótico de Charles ... - Ubi Thesis

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✐✐✐✐Capítulo 12Metafísica e a Arquitectónicado SistemaPODE parecer paradoxal que Peirce, que tanto criticou o estado <strong>de</strong> atrasoda metafísica do seu tempo, tenha, no final da sua vida, <strong>de</strong>dicado consi<strong>de</strong>rávelesforço a constituir uma, conferindo-lhe o <strong>de</strong>stacadíssimo papel <strong>de</strong>unificar os diferentes strands do <strong>sistema</strong>, em suma, <strong>de</strong> constituir a arquitectónicaque sempre almejou. 1 Recor<strong>de</strong>-se que a própria máxima pragmatistafoi primeiramente formulada para afastar o “palavreado sem sentido” das proposiçõesmetafísicas, estabelecendo que não tinham significado, e que não apassavam <strong>de</strong> uma prática fútil sem qualquer fim à vista. 2 Este será, <strong>de</strong> resto,1 . Peter Turley nota isso mesmo, sendo que sobretudo para a primeira geração <strong>de</strong> comentadores,a metafísica peirceana era frequentemente consi<strong>de</strong>rada o elefante branco da suafilosofia. “To those of empiricist persuasion who would claim him as one of their own, thisfacet of Peirce’s mind [o metafísico] has been troublesome; particularly troublesome sincePeirce’s writings on cosmogony date from 1890 on, when he was at the height of his philosophicpowers”, TURLEY, Peter, Peirce’s Cosmology, 1977, New York Philosophical Library,New York, p. 64.2 . “Questioner: What then is the raison d’être of the doctrine? What advantage is expectedfrom it? Pragmatist: It will serve to show that almost every proposition of ontological metaphysicsis either meaningless gibberish – one word being <strong>de</strong>fined by other words, and theyby still others, without any real conception ever being reached – or else is downright absurd; sothat all such rubbish being swept away, what will remain of philosophy will be a series of problemscapable of investigation bay the observational methods of true sciences (. . . )”, CollectedPapers, 5.423.345✐✐✐✐

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