The Dialogic Nature of Semiotic Tools in Facilitating Conscious Thought: Peirce’s and Vygotskii’s Models

Abstract

Peirce’s adherence to the endoporeutic principle reveals how abductive rationality can effectively be exploited; it elevates dialogue as the most efficacious intervention to advance the development of modal logic. Peirce’s endoporeutic principle prefigures Vygotskii’s private and inner speech as the primary factor affecting thought refinement. This inquiry explores the far-reaching effects of internal dialogue upon hypothesis-making, particularly critical at early ages. In short, Propositions expressed in talking to self may obviate which hunches surface in their infancy as faulty/plausible, in a way that no other kind of interventions can insinuate, creating what Peirce describes as “double consciousness.” Double consciousness privileges the element of surprise within dialogic exchanges (linguistic, and non-linguistic alike) by means of the imposition of the “strange intruding” idea. Double consciousness as self-talk can preclude adopting emergent propositions/assertions (often only implicit), it offers a powerful forum to discard hasty/weak hunches in a timely fashion, together with those whose content fails to give rise to serviceable courses of action and workable remedies.