Evolution
Evolution

Summary/Abstract: It is hard to conceive of a better homage to a thinker than offering a reflection that takes his thought seriously, and as a springboard to further thinking. Those who render such homage in these pages will probably address some of the pivotal ideas that Jesper Hoffmeyer has bestowed on biosemiotics, e.g. code duality, semiotic freedom, semiotic scaffolding, etc. Yet I find myself incapable of engaging any of such ponderous topics in just a few lines. I will instead try to tackle a short, undeveloped remark in the epigraph’s quotation: But to make a general rule out of single cases logically seems to come close to what interpretation actually means. This provides fodder for some Peircean musings.

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