Pathemata : Affections or Impressions of the Soul

Peircers,

Recall that Aristotle makes the cognitive aspect of signs
derivative of their affections or impressions on the soul.

Words spoken are symbols or signs (symbola) of affections or impressions (pathemata) of
the soul (psyche); written words are the signs of words spoken.  As writing, so also is
speech not the same for all races of men. But the mental affections themselves, of which
these words are primarily signs (semeia), are the same for the whole of mankind, as are
also the objects (pragmata) of which those affections are representations or likenesses,
images, copies (homoiomata). (Aristotle, On Interpretation, i.16a4–9)

As for Peirce, the "irritation of doubt" that instigates inquiry
is an affective tension that we suffer in the mind on account of
entropy or uncertainty, statistically speaking, distributions of
options for action or expression that are distressingly uniform.

Regards,

Jon

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