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In:Terminology throughout History: A discipline in the making
Edited by Kara Warburton and John Humbley
[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice 24] 2025
► pp. 105–116

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Chapter 5
Peirce and philosophical terminology

Between theory and ethics

 | University of Calabria
Published online: 23 May 2025
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Abstract
Contemporary terminology emerged between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, a development made manifest in the growing number of international conferences. This movement toward standardisation and internationalisation of sciences and technologies also involved the humanities and philosophical disciplines. The theories and ethics of terminology are all aspects of this movement in which Charles Sanders Peirce, starting from his semiotic perspective, was a major protagonist. Peirce was a prolific coiner of philosophical neologisms, an active collaborator on general and specialised dictionaries, and he considered the conscious and precise use of technical language as a matter of capital importance for the sciences in general and for philosophy in particular, one of the pivots of the work of every scientific community.
Article outline
  • 1.The language of philosophy: An international problem
  • 2.Peirce: Philosophy, terminology, lexicography
  • 3.Terminology practices and scientific ethics
  • Notes
  • References
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