The ontological implications of the Peircean Categories, as set forth most clearly in Peirce’s summative architectonic statement, “New Elements,” and referenced elsewhere in Peirce’s body of writings, are examined with reference to the existent or physical universe. The Peircean universal ontological Categories Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness are shown to give rise to a cosmos that is triadic and representational in essence. This immanently representational cosmos, denominated the “Book Universe,” is shown to be evidenced by the representational contours of both the mathematical and of the conceptual framing of the three broad domains of theoretical physics, the quantum, classical, and relativistic domains. This triadic “Book Universe” model is both characterized and also contrasted with the “Block Universe” model, and is seen to incorporate both time and space as emergent representational characteristics, and to be manifest, qua triadic Representamen, in terms of a “foliated eternalism” that requires both antecedent and parallel cosmoi.

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表征的原始性

皮尔士范畴的本体论含义，在皮尔士的总结性建筑学陈述“新元素”中最清楚地阐述，并在皮尔士著作的其他地方引用，是根据存在的或物理的宇宙来检验的。Peircean 的普遍本体论范畴第一性、第二性和第三性被证明会产生一个本质上是三元和表象的宇宙。这个内在具象的宇宙，命名为“书本宇宙”，被理论物理学的三个广泛领域、量子、经典和相对论领域的数学和概念框架的具象轮廓所证明。这个三元“Book Universe”模型既有特点，也与“Block Universe”模型形成对比，