Abstract
The article attempts to investigate scientific background underlying the system of signs proposed by Ch.S. Peirce. The study is based on the hypothesis that Ch.S.Peirce borrowed the principle of systematisation from the Latin translation of “Organon” by Aristotle published by Julius Pacius in 1584. Having analysed this issue of “Organon” the author demonstrates that the system of categories and predicabilia by Aristotle was transformed into a diagram presenting the interconnections between categories as judgements. Along with that it is shown that Pacius calculated the systems consisting of more than five notions as elements. Moreover, it is specified that Pacius borrowed the idea of representing categories in the form of diagrams from Johann Eck. It is possible to conclude from the investigation conducted that Ch.S.Peirce’s system of signs is isomorphic to Aristotle’s system of signs in the interpretation of Pacius. The article also introduces the idea about “the direction of predication” from accidence towards gender (from right to left) and from gender towards accidence (from left to right), which opens the perspective for future comparative analysis with semasiological and onomasiological methods of studying the language.
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