Tags / 2 quotes from 1 source
#semiotics
Medieval Semiotics (meier-oeser, Stephan)
To speak of medieval semiotics is not to speak of a precisely defined discipline
To speak of medieval semiotics is not to speak of a precisely defined discipline besides, and distinct from, other medieval arts and sciences; it is rather to speak of a complex field of more or less — mostly more — elaborate reflections on the concept of sign, its nature…
A turning point in the history of semiotics
Despite all the internal ruptures and inconsistencies, Augustine's doctrine of sign is based on a definition of the sign that, for the first time, intends to embrace both the natural indexical sign and the conventional linguistic sign as species of an all-embracing generic…