فلسفة العلامة و تأويلها بين بيرس و بن عربي

Abstract EN

The purpose of this study is to identify the most important concepts underlying the semiotic theory formulated by the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce, the primary underpinnings of which are founded on the logic of a triadic mathematical protocol embodied in the following three phenomenological categories: Firstness, Secondness and Thirdness, which are viewed as the starting point for every perceptual and epistemological possibility in the entire existence.

It is these concepts that form the basis for the internal structure of the sign, which is composed of the Represeutant (firstness), which refers to its Object (secondness) by means of a necessary mediator, which is the Interpretant (thirdness).

Peirce held that every existential physical act, be it linguistic or otherwise, acquires its semantic process and functions as a sign based on the mutual support among these three components and their simultaneous operation.

The aim of this initial analysis is to enter into a dialogue with the existential and gnosticmystical categories revealed by Ibn ‘Arabi, which involve a metaphysical logic that serves as a nearly perfect parallel to the logic proposed by Peirce in his physical categories.

Ibn ‘Arabi bases existence on a triadic conceptualization which he views as the foundation on which everything in the world is based.

In fact, he refers explicitly to the fact that a meaningful sign must rest on a triadic foundation, since the number three is, in his view, the origin of existence.

For this reason, the present study supports the view that Ibn ‘Arabi’s triadic metaphysical logic is the original copy, as it were, of the logic of physical 'threeness'.

The study concludes with a diagram derived from a summation of Ibn ‘Arabi’s conceptualizations and interpretations of the Divine Self’s relationship to human beings and the world in parallel with Peirce’s sign-related conceptualizations.