Abstract
On the basis of clinical experience, we find that Roentgen signs may induce feelings, provoke judgments, or impart knowledge in the mind of the interpreter. In this study, we develop a triadic typology of mental effects of Roentgen signs that is based on the Peircean categories of thought. In the process, we provide a categorical basis for the valuations used in diagnostic appraisal. Hence, this study is a contribution to a fully categorical phenomenology of Roentgen diagnosis.
About the author
Robert M. Cantor, PhD, MD (b. 1936) is Associate Professor of Clinical Radiology at the University of Cincinnati. His principal research interest is the semiotics of Roentgen diagnosis. His major publications include ‘A sign for the early detection of medullary sclerosis’ (with K. R. Kattan, 1993); ‘Foundations of Roentgen semiotics’ (2000); ‘A pragmatic typology of Roentgen signs’ (2002); ‘Verisimilitude in Roentgen semiotics’ (2003); and ‘Roentgen semiotic grammar’ (2003).
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