Descartes & Poinsot: The Crossroad of Signs and Ideas

摘要

[...] crucial to Poinsot's and Deely's explanation of signs in knowledge is the insight that relations (1) are suprasubjective and (2) are indifferent in their mode of being to ens rationis or ens reale. [...] signs as relations can exist in both realms and thus can secure the connection of objects by signification (existing as ens rationis) with real things (ens reale).