Two-element division or difference, used especially between mutually exclusive objects. While the trichotomy divides objects into trinities, the dichotomy divides them into pairs. Related: Dualism
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Dicisign
A term used by Charles S. Peirce as a synonym for Dicent. Roughly speaking - a sign corresponding to a message in the context of its utterance.
Dictionary vs. Encyclopedia
Two different ways of explaining the meaning or content of sememes (the most basic units of meaning in the semiotic system, normally understood as language). The dictionary model is based on the assumption that there are a finite number of sememes in which all other...
Différance
A word used by Jacques Derrida as part of his critique of phonocentrism and the metaphysics of presence. It is a playful word because it plays with two meanings of differ (to differ and to defer). In addition, the word itself shows the dependence of speech on...
Difference
Difference is synonymous with otherness, opposition. Related: Binary opposition Much has been done on diversity in both structuralism and poststructuralism. It is used to explain the most important units in language and the way they originate; the rhetoric of...
Ding an Sich
A German expression that is usually used as the opposite of the presented or phenomenon (the object as presented to us). The modern German philosopher Immanuel Kant sharply distinguishes objects in themselves from objects as they appear to us, arguing that our...
Discourse
A term sometimes used in the translation of the speech. Ferdinand de Saussure divided language (langue), seen as a self-sufficient system of formal differences, from speech (parole), the actual utterance of the individual utterer. He did this to facilitate the...
Discursive Practice
A term, that is used to illuminate the many discourses in which one is involved (e.g., philosophy, literary criticism, political commentary), these are practices and even more - practices that intersect with other non-discursive practices. What and how we read and...
Displacement
А Freudian term, meaning a process or result of redirecting an emotion or impulse from its original object to another, is more acceptable. If a child who is angry with his friend expresses hostility to a relative, the anger is displaced. Displacement is activated...
Dissemination
A term used by Roland Barthes and especially Jacques Derrida to suggest the essential openness and productivity of the text. According to such literary semiotics as Barthes and Derrida, the function of the text is not representative but productive; it is not a mirror...
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Fetish, Fetishizing
The most common understanding of the word Fetish is related to people's sexual desires and peculiarities. This meaning we owe to nonother but Sigmund Freud. While studying human sexuality, Freud found out that there are people that can only be aroused by specific...
Sign System
Sign system is a key concept in semiotics. It is used to refer to any system of signs and relations between signs. For example, the term language is frequently used as a synonym of a sign system. But, as the term language carries certain connotations of human...
Abduction
A term used by Charles Peirce to denote the process of inquiry in which a hypothesis is formed or generated; The result of such a process - the conclusion reached or the assumed guess, respectively, is called retroduction and hypothesis. The word "abduction" has more...
Abject
A term used by Julia Kristeva to mean something that confuses violates or undermines some established order or stable position. It has this effect because it is in the middle of what we normally consider to be absolute oppositions (eg life/death, human/machine). Many...
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