Article: Bains, Paul. The Primacy of Semiosis. An Ontology of Relations.(Book review)

BAINS, Paul. The Primacy of Semiosis. An Ontology of Relations. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. xii + 186 pp. $53.00--This is a book rather to be read than read about, for the tale that it tells in brief compass is astonishing. Relation as a feature of the mind-independent world, affirmed by Aristotle and Aquinas but denied by Ockham and the moderns, Bains here presents in the light Charles Peirce (as Poinsot before him) came to see it: as the one mode of being which is unaffected intrinsically by the surrounding circumstances which make the relation in question belong primarily to the mind-dependent or mind-independent order, and hence as the one mode of being ...

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