Bedeutung is a German word usually translated as "reference" instead of "meaning". If we use the famous example of Gottlob Frege, dawn and vespers refer to the same meaning (Bedeutung), as both refer to the planet Venus but the two differ in their meaning. The term...
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Behaviorism
Behaviorism is a psychological theory that emphasizes the following three phenomena: Observable behavior in society and with a certain frequency of parameters, The role of the environment in determining behavior, and What is perceived (what is learned, excluding what...
Behaviorist Theory of Meaning
The behaviorist theory of meaning is an attempt to explain meaning in terms of the behavior of organisms and their interaction with the environment. This environment includes other organisms of the same genus, and according to the behaviorist theory, the interaction...
Being
An extremely broad term used to denote everything that is, in any form. It stands for the status of something to be, instead of the status to be nothingness. The nature and form of being were of paramount importance to Western thinkers. Questions about the...
Belief
Generally speaking, belief is the conscious acceptance of the truth of a proposition. According to Charles S. Peirce, the predisposition to act in a certain way under certain circumstances; belief is that according to which a person is ready to act. Sometimes...
Besprochene Welt
Besprochene Welt - from German - Spoken World, is a term used by Harald Weinrich and is often translated as a Discursive or Commented World, which is different from the Narrated World (Erzählten Welt). The Discursive World is one in which the originator and the...
Binary Code
A binary code is a type of code (or network of relationships) based on two elementary signals, such as the dot and dash of the Morse code or the positive and negative electrical impulses. Thus, binarization is a process in which elementary signals from one code (for...
Binarism
The tendency to look at topics and phenomena, even those that are intricately constructed, in terms of oppositional pairs or conglomerates of such. Related: Binary code Binary opposition
Binary Opposition
Binary opposition is the opposition of two things. Also, the state or process in which two things are opposed to each other. Often the binary opposition is understood as a pair of terms in which one is privileged. Opposition is (as the Latin op- prefix meaning...
Biosemiosis
The biosemiosis is a word derived from bio- (life) and semiosis (sign action). The word denotes the semiosis of living organisms. The term also encompasses anthroposemiosis, zoosemiosis, and (at least in theory) phytosemiosis. Related: Biosemiotics
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Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of language. It encompasses the analysis of every aspect of language, as well as the methods for studying and modeling them. The traditional areas of linguistic analysis include phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics,...
Phenomenology
A term used by Charles S. Peirce to denote a discipline of philosophy. The term is also used to denote an important movement in modern philosophy, identified with such thinkers as Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Roman Ingarden. It could be said that this...
Feminism
Feminism is an ideology, that, like other ideologies uses reductionism to explain complex issues like, for example, the one that the feminists most commonly cite - the rights to equal pay. Like most ideologies, the feministic too has its roots in somewhat reasonable...
Rationalism
Rationalism in a very general sense means devotion to reason; in a narrower sense, it refers to the doctrine that reason itself has the ability to know reality. In a general sense, then, the rationalist is a defender and advocate of reason. Rationalism is often used...
Intertextuality
Intertextuality is a term introduced by Julia Kristeva and widely accepted by literary theorists to denote the complex way in which a text relates to other texts. Just as there is no sign separate from other signs, there is no text separate from other texts. In...
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A completely and truly free course on Semiology (Semiotics). Learn about the meaning of signs, how and why did the field emerged. What is the relationship between the street signs and the signs that we use every day - words.
