This thinker said that to say that a rose "really is red" is the same as saying it would look red to a normal person in normal lighting.
This thinker said that to say that a rose "really is red" is the same as saying it would look red to a normal person in normal lighting. This thinker distinguished between an object of perception as percept and how it appears to the mind as perceptuum. He distinguished between dicents, which are affected by the objects they represent, and rhemes, which represent objects as qualitative possibilities. The object, the representamen, and the interpretant are the three components of his triadic conception of semiotics. One essay by him defines three grades of clarity of apprehension, while another rejects the "method of authority" and the "method of tenacity." For 10 points, name this American Pragmatist philosopher who wrote "The Fixation of Belief" and "How to Make Our Ideas Clear."
This thinker said that to say that a rose "really is red" is the same as saying it would look red to a normal person in normal lighting.
C(harles) S(anders) Peirce