Michele Pasin / Quotes

A tawdry business, gangster-style

The whole hanging-the-cunt-up-over-the-acid thing, it was all a bit—what did you call it, Salman? What was the word?’ ‘Tawdry,’ Salman suggested. ‘Yeah. Taw-fuckin-dry the whole thing. Farid, he likes to get respect, or cut to the chase and gun the motherfucker down, like. So,

Saved 5 November 2015

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Bacon abandons the model of the semantic triangle: words signify the things themselves

2) In his account of signification of words regarding their ‘impositio’ Bacon accentuates the arbitrariness of meaning.[28] But even though the first…

Medieval Semiotics (meier-oeser, Stephan) #words #Bacon #semantics #name #things

Boethius commenting on Aristotle

in his more elaborate second commentary on Peri Hermeneias, Boethius discusses at length the interrelations between the four elements of linguistic semeiosis…

Medieval Semiotics (meier-oeser, Stephan) #words #things #concept #spoken-words

Many things which we felt to be basic realities of nature are social fictions

We have now found out that many things which we felt to be basic realities of nature are social fictions, arising from commonly accepted or traditional ways…

The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are #things #words

Ockham's logic and the mentalization of sign

Ockham's logic marks an important, though not the only important, step in the process that might be described as a progressive ‘mentalization’ of sign. The…

Medieval Semiotics (meier-oeser, Stephan) #words #logic #things #sense #signification

Words signify, as it were, infinitely many things

Even if impositio in the described sense is of pivotal importance for the constitution of linguistic meaning, the signification of words is by no means…

Medieval Semiotics (meier-oeser, Stephan) #words #things #signification #vocal-expressions

Self is other and here is there

Yet in this moment when one seems about to become a really total zombie, the whole thing blows up. For there is no fate unless there is someone or something…

The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are #world #whole-thing #ego