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Medieval Semiotics (meier-oeser, Stephan)
Augustine advocates the devaluation of spoken word and written sign in favor of mental concept
In close analogy to this devaluation of the written word against the spoken one, Augustine in his later theory of verbum mentis (mental word) is advocating the devaluation of the spoken word and the external sign in general against the internal sphere of mental cognition. It is…
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 mentioned by Aristotle, i.e., between external objects or things (res), mental concepts or representations (passiones…