《Philosophy and the second Person》.pdfVIP

Abstract In this paper I begin by considering Peirce’s early fragments on personal pronouns as metaphysical categories, and I then use some consonances with the work of Wil- helm von Humboldt to construe Peirce’s œuvre as part of a tradition of studies which, Philosophy and halfway between philosophy and linguistics, reflects on personal pronouns as universals the Second of human communication. Upshots of this move are, first, a new point as to the rela- Person: Peirce, tion between Aristotle and Peirce, and