El índice en la filosofía de Peirce

Abstract

In the first part of the article the author explains the importance of Peirce’s reflection about the index as a crucial point of the refor-mulation of his entire philosophical system that took place around 1885. Then he examines the role of the index in Peircean semiotics and linguistics, where the index clearly shows -in spite of the difficulties deriving from Peirce's acceptance of some Kantian gnoseological thesis- the necessary and close connexion between language and reality.