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Article: The Logic of the Sacred in Bateson and Peirce

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January 1, 2003
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By performing an abduction of Bateson and Peirce, we come to understand the logic of the sacred as a semiotic and phenomenological communicative phenomenon. First, I compare and contrast their ideas concerning ontology, epistemology, and logic. Next, I articulate how both theoris ts construct their epistemologies within a triadic frame of relations that successfully accounts for a communicative logic that activates the integration of body and Mind. Finally, I bring Bateson's triadic relations of aesthetics, consciousness (mental process), and the sacred in line with Peirce's existential semiotic categories of Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness. We discover the sacred is ...

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