The philosophic system of the founder of pragmatism Charles Sanders Peirce is rarely grasped from the point of view of its metaphoric usage. However, some of his most original yet often misunderstood and contested ideas such as those of ‘ matter as effete mind ’ and ‘ the play of musement ’ are metaphoric representations. In the present paper I am offering a new way to discuss the role of metaphors in Peirce’s philosophy by taking a twofold approach to the problem. On the one hand, metaphor itself becomes an object of inquiry. I touch upon the appearances of metaphoric thinking at the level of his classes of signs and metaphor’s relation to abductive inference. I trace those appearances in the process of their becoming from the spontaneity of Firstness towards the actuality of Secondness via the generalizing effects of Thirdness. Then I propose a flexible graphic model of metaphor that is parallel to Peirce’s inherent evolutionism. This model is seen as a “gentle” methodological tool for deriving meaning. To illustrate its applicability I include a playful nod to the literary works of Jorge Luis Borges to show how hard logical thought and aesthetic beauty complement each other.

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皮尔斯的分叉隐喻花园

实用主义创始人查尔斯·桑德斯·皮尔斯的哲学体系很少从其隐喻用法的角度加以把握。但是，他的一些最原始但经常被误解和质疑的思想，例如“情绪化的事物”和“娱乐的玩法”，都是隐喻的表示。在本文中，我通过采取双重方法来解决这一问题，提供了一种新的方式来讨论隐喻在皮尔士哲学中的作用。一方面，隐喻本身成为研究的对象。我在他的符号类别和隐喻与归纳推理的关系的层面上谈到隐喻思维的出现。我通过“第三性”的泛化效应，追踪了这些现象从“第一性”的自发性向“第二性”的现实化的过程。然后，我提出了一个灵活的隐喻图形模型，该模型与Peirce的固有进化论相平行。该模型被视为推导含义的“温和”方法论工具。为了说明其适用性，我对豪尔赫·路易斯·博尔赫斯（Jorge Luis Borges）的文学作品作了个有趣的致意，以说明逻辑思维和美学美如何相辅相成。