Triadicity
Triadicity

Summary/Abstract: Jesper Hoffmeyer’s work has transformed our understanding of biological processes. He has done this by developing several basic premises of Peircean semiosis within his own examination of biological dynamics. He began with the observation that life is not random, but exhibits obvious continuity of types. How can this be? After all, as he says, “in principle everything is forgotten once it dies” (1996: 13). But continuity of type is a reality, and therefore “the essence of procreation lies in a principle which we will call coding – or, even better, semiosis” (1996: 13). To explain this, Hoffmeyer sets up several basic axioms.

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