Questions tagged [semiotics]
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Would adapting grounding notation to musical notation make the concept seem more distinctive and also clearer/more useful?
So far, from reading through the material on the topic, it seems somewhat difficult to properly distinguish grounding from truth-making or abstract necessitation or the like. I know it's stipulated ...
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Does Not(A and not-A) = Not(A nand A) in intuitionistic logic?
I guess this comes out to: in intuitionistic logic, is the positioning of the negation relative to conjunction nontrivial? Is not-and different from and-not, here?
Motivation: I was trying out a ...
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Asking a question in the "True Language"
Definition: the True Language is so named not because it satisfies the concept from antiquity of a language whose expressions were naturally isomorphic to their referents in some essentialistic way, ...
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Verbum vs. nomen
From a semiotics perspective, what's the difference between verbum ("word") and nomen ("noun")?
St. Augustine's De Magistro V.12 grapples with this.
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Is there an established symbol that means 'symbol'?
Is there a glyph (so not the word 'symbol' or equivalent) whose established meaning is 'symbol'? annoyingly self-referential as it is, I do occasionally find cases where it would be useful - for ...
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How does Barthes' ideas of Metalanguage differ from simple propositional logic?
On the wikipedia for post structuralism,
In Elements of Semiology (1967), Barthes advances the concept of the metalanguage, a systematized way of talking about concepts like meaning and grammar ...
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Anthology of texts on semiotics
It might be rather unusual question but I'm looking for a book that I once saw several years ago. It was a multivolume anthology of texts on semiotics. I remember that there were some Peirce and ...
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What does 'denote' mean in language and mathematics?
My initial idea of 'denote' is that is a verb that describes how an element of well-defined language such as 'cat' or '2' relates to the object/concept they refer to, however in mathematics text books,...
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Semiotic triangle and abstract concepts
I have a hard time putting abstract concepts such as "temperature" in the semiotic triangle. What would be the referent? Is it the thermometer? The air/water where the temperature is ...
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Are there in-depth theories of parentheses? [closed]
For example, mustache-emphasized set theories might be styled theories of parenthetical inclusion, extralogical in nature (so something like pairing conjunction with intersection and inclusive ...
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Looking for Marxist or Frankfurt-style critiques of advertising
There is undoubtedly a great deal of cultural criticism of advertising, but I'm looking for a certain angle on the topic. For Marx, the commodity is the primary "atom" of capitalist society ...
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Enantiodromia--How Do Symbols Undergo an Inversion of Meaning?
I am looking for writings in philosophy, semiotics, or psychology that deal with the shifts and ultimately the inversion of practical meaning in symbols. This would be something like Orwell's concept ...
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Is a letter of the alphabet considered something?
Can a letter of the alphabet be considered a thing, or something? I know that a letter can be used to symbolize something, but the symbolization doesn’t make it so. As an example, the letter U is the ...
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Linguistic meaning among evolved artificial agents [closed]
Suppose we have used an evolutionary algorithm to produce a community of artificial agents. These agents navigate a virtual environment, seeking food and avoiding predators. No one designed these ...
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What in mathematics has the property of beauty?
I might or might not be at an impasse in my writing... I have around 200 pages of notes, and I finally sat down and tried to compile some of the material, but I feel like the presentation is off ...
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Are implementations to semiotics what proofs are to syntax, and models to semantics?
I see this term implementation and its family used here and there in writings on set theory. There are implementations of natural numbers, of ordered pairs, of functions, of "mathematics in ...
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Font/typeface color, calligrams, and the syntax-semantics distinction
There is a set of books by the author Mark Z. Danielewski, that features a very irregular (but not necessarily absolutely unique) style. For example, in his debut novel, the word house (and ...
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How does indexicality relates to causality?
I recently found this in an article
In everyday language, to say that B is caused by A draws on the idea of the index, though for the semiotician causality is just one manifestation of the indexical ...
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Did Peirce apply his triadic theory to music?
Did Peirce apply his triadic theory (that things are comprised of Firstness, Secondness, Thirdness) to music?
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Looking for an essay on what it means for a philosopher to repudiate their earlier work
I read an essay some time ago about what it means for an author to declare that their prior work seems 'false' or 'misleading.' The essayist wanted to make some point, IIRC, about how it is not the ...
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Has semiotics been adopted by any mainstream academic philosophers?
Semiotics, as developed by Pearce, Saussure, Barthes, and others can have very broad applications that overlap with epistemology, logic, and maybe even ontology. I don't believe it is always ...
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What is the difference between properties and sets?
Is there a difference between properties and sets? To me, it would seem that the property of being non-self-identical is the same thing as the empty set, and the property of being (identical to x OR ...
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What's the relation of semiotics to cybernetics?
I was looking at the wiki page of Jakob Johann von Uexküll where I saw a diagram that resembled a simple feedback model of cybernetics.
What's the relation of semiotics to cybernetics?
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The index finger of Socrates and Plato
Why do we see Socrates in Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Socrates, and Plato in Raphael's School of Athens pointing up with their index finger? What does this gesture symbolize?
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what is a "discursive site"?
I am looking for a definition of "discursive site". I have looked up Foucault's definition of discourse, but can't find anything. Any references or explanations welcome.
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The possibility of linking two perceptual modalities in a coherent way
I am reading the book of Roy Harris "Rethinking writing" and see his arguments in favor of autonomity of writing from speech.
There could be no complete isomorphism between any system of ...
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What is difference between semiotics and memetics?
A long time ago, in High School, I was interested in meaning of symbols. Recently when I read "The Selfish Gene" I starting reading up on memetics and I encountered semiotics criticism of memetics ...
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References for the study of language
I'm looking for (not too difficult too read) references related to
Semiotics
Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Linguistics
I mainly seek the understanding of ideas about the relation between ...
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How do we understand and fix reference for scientific units of measure?
Saul Kripke provides us with a clear way of how we understand and use names in Naming and Necessity. While this solves the problem of how we attribute and understand proper names an interesting ...
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Did Confucius say "Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws"?
It is claimed here that Confucius said:
Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.
Is this true? If so, in what work did he say this?
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Origin of Charles Sander Peirce's model of triadic signs diagram?
Does anyone know the origin of this diagram based on Charles Sander Peirce's model of triadic signs?
http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/peirce-semiosis.gif
Is it by Peirce and if so from ...
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What does Barthes mean when he calls boxing a "Jansenist sport"?
In the essay The World of Wrestling, Roland Barthes has this to say about the distinction between boxing and wrestling.
This public knows very well the distinction between wrestling and boxing; it ...
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Do linguists call human language "natural"? [closed]
From a recent question (Could a programming language be considered as a language?), it came to me the impression that there may be some confusion about the terminology professional linguists use, when ...
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