Some epistemological and theoretical considerations


Triadic conceptions of communication and normative change.
Peirce
Fundamental categories: Firstness, Secondness, Thirdness
The sign: sign, object and interpretant
The notion of semiosis as meaning-making
Deduction, Induction and Abduction
Peirce's Normative theory of enquiry
Understanding processes of change in systems of textual and interactional norms through t study of co-operative writing practices in distributed multi-participant co-operative environments (DMCE's)[1].