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Continuity is the state or sign of something to be continuous or continuous; Continuum is a continuous sequence or continuous development. Charles S. Peirce emphasizes the need to treat individual phenomena as if they were points on the same continuum. Related:...

From the Latin convenire - together; convention means established practice or use. It often happens that the words are conventionally and relatively used interchangeably. However, we should make greater efforts to use these words (and in fact all others). Among the...

Signs based on convention and different from natural signs. A little girl watches the rapidly darkening sky and accepts that it is a sign of an approaching storm. As the girl looks around in horror for her dog, she hears her aunt calling her name. Storm clouds are...

Conversation analysis is an empirical, inductive study, usually undertaken by sociolinguists and social psychologists, on current conversations, mostly by recording a tape recorder and audio and video media. The analysis of the conversation should not be confused with...

Today, the metaphor of conversation, introduced under the influence of Richard Rorty, has gained importance and even centrality that it did not have before. According to Rorty, philosophers must stop seeing philosophy as a form of inquiry (a process of semiosis aimed...

In an influential essay entitled "Logic and Conversation," Paul Grice argues that every conversation should be guided by certain rules that relate to a common principle. This principle brings together the participants in the conversation to do the following: "Make...

To learn more about the term Cooperative principle, please see conversational rules.

A term sometimes used to denote the verbal or semiotic environment of certain semiotic processes or practices, as opposed to the extraverbal (extrasemiotic) environment of the context. The latter is sometimes called a situational environment. Here is a simple example...

Epistemological rupture or change. Sudden, usually unmotivated transition from one problematique (complex of problems) to another. In literary theory and critique, jumping from a psychobiographical approach to a structuralist one would in fact be an epistemological...

According to Charles S. Peirce, criticism is a branch of logic. Critic (sometimes called critical logic) is a section considered along with many forms of argument. Later, Peirce saw logic as a three-part discipline: Speculative grammar - deals with the processes and...