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#vocal-expressions
Medieval Semiotics (meier-oeser, Stephan)
The primary intention of bacon's semiotic analyses is, as it was already with augustine, to provide the foundations for the semantics of spoken language.
The primary intention of Bacon's semiotic analyses is, as it was already with Augustine, to provide the foundations for the semantics of spoken language.[27] According to Bacon, an adequate and complete account of the “difficult issue” (difficilis dubitatio) of what the…
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 limited to it: “a vocal expression signifies many things for which it is not imposed, as it signifies all those things that…
Rejection of Augustine's definition of the sign, and the semantic triangle
The consequences of this view are many: for instance, the rejection, or at least the modification, of Augustine's venerable definition of the sign, and the new possibility to describe the relationship between the concept and its object without referring to the notion of…