Interpretant is a term used by Charles Peirce to denote one of the three most important parts of a sign or semiosis. According to him, the sign is irreducibly triadic, its components are a sign (or sign vehicle), object, and interpreter. The interpretant should not be...
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Interpreter
An interpreter is a person involved in the process of interpretation, creating meanings from some text, discourse, or another semiotic phenomenon. The interpreter should not be confused with what Charles Peirce calls an interpreter. In The Problem of Christianity,...
Intrasemiotic
Intrasemiotic refers to a process belonging to or arising within the same semiotic system (sign system). For comparison, intersemiotics examines the relationship between two different sign systems. When one saxophonist responds to another during improvisation, it is...
Intersubjectivity
Intersubjectivity refers to the conditions under which two or more different subjects or individuals relate to each other. If the subjective refers to an internal or private area, and the objective to an external or public sphere, the intersubjective means first and...
Intratextuality
Intratextuality is a critical term used to explore the relationship between the parts and the whole in texts, including issues of unity (and disunity), the relationship between digressions and their surroundings, interactions between disparate parts of texts (such as...
Intuition, Intuitive Knowledge
Intuition, Intuitive Knowledge is synonymous with immediate knowledge. Charles Peirce uses intuition in a purely technical sense to denote a knowledge determined not by another knowledge, but only by an object outside consciousness. The conclusion of an argument is...
Irreducible, Irreducibility
Irreducible - the essence or status of something to be irreducible or indivisible, without dissolving into something simpler. At the heart of Charles Peirce's understanding of signs is the assertion that signs are irreducibly triadic. If we compare the following two...
Iteration, Iterability
Iteration is the process by which something (such as a sign) is replicated or reproduced; Iterability is the ability to repeat or repeat; to be able to repeat or reproduce over and over again. It is generally accepted that this is an essential feature of the signs....
Inscrutability of Reference
The impossibility to determine the reference of one sentence or some other sign. Related: Intertextuality
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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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