Zoe Crossland - Materiality and Embodiment - pg 393

-the conception of the distributed person was anticipated in the late nineteenth century by pragmatist philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce, whose semeiotic approach allows a way to think through the lived experience of the body in relation both to the dead and to the phenomenological lifeworld. Peirce rejected the inherited foundationalism of relationalism and positivism. Instead, he argued that thought takes place through signs, and signs are neither internal mental phenomena nor wholly external objects, but rather relational entities constituted through and within the sensuous world of experience.