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#mental-signs
Medieval Semiotics (meier-oeser, Stephan)
Changing the perspective of Augustine
Whereas according to Augustine the sign, being an external entity by definition, was precluded from the sphere of the mind, it is now the mental sign, i.e., the mental concept or mental term (terminus mentalis), that is seen as the primary and most principal sign (signum…
The universality of the concept of sign is counterbalanced by the emphasis laid on the mental sign
The universality of the concept of sign, according to which in some respect “anything in the world is a sign” (omnis res mundi est signum) (Peter Margallus, Logices utriusque scholia, 1520, 146f.), is counterbalanced by the emphasis laid on the mental sign (signum mentale)…