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...
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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...
Fallacy
The word fallacy means a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound arguments. Generally stands for a wrong point of view or wrong expression.
Fallibilism
Fallibilism is a doctrine according to which each and every one of people's allegations for reality is misleading, wrong, or susceptible to error. Although it may look very similar at first, Fallibilism shouldn't be mistaken for Scepticism (especially in its extremes...
Family Resemblance
The family resemblance is an idea of Ludwig Wittgenstein which shows that a word's abstraction could be explained without assuming that there is a separate entity characteristic of everything that could be properly denoted by that word. In one of his books -...
Fashion
In his book Fashion System Roland Barthes, the author makes fashion a subject of a systematic study. Similar to how our buildings are made to be more than a shelter (architecture), our clothes are a lot more than pieces of fabric used to cover our bodies (see...
Firstness
See: Peircean Categories Categories Charles Sanders Peirce
Form of Life(Lebensform)
Ludwig Wittgenstein and his followers are using the expression Lebensform to define the totality of the institutions, practices, and discourses in which the language games (also an important concept for Wittgenstein) have meaning. Language games in the auction bidding...
Function
A task or a role, action or a way of action in which the task or the role is executed. Also, the relation between two variables. Roman Jakobson discerns six possible functions of people's communication: When the communication is oriented (directed) towards the...
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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...
Free Course in Semiology
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.
