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Morphology is a term traditionally used to denote a branch of linguistics dedicated to the study of the form and structure of words. In the works of Luce Irigaray and the authors she influenced, morphology means something completely different, a form of our bodily...

Motivation is a term used by Ferdinand de Saussure to denote that the connection between the signifier and the signified is in no way entirely arbitrary, that there is a "reasonable" motive for the connection between a signifier and a signified. Arbitrariness is a...

Myth comes from the Greek mythos, which means an event (or story). A term sometimes used in a very broad sense (actually in agreement with its original meaning in Greek) to denote a story; more often the word is used in a narrower sense (for example, an event or a...

Mythos is a Greek word for event or story, often used in opposition to logos. A word used by Aristotle in his Poetics to denote something that is too close to what today's narratologists call a plot.

An expression introduced by Jacques Derrida and widely accepted to denote the dominant orientation, in which the ultimate goal or the highest realization of thought or consciousness is identity or some other form of presence.

A method of science is a term used by Charles S. Peirce to denote a specific method of inquiry (or way of achieving belief). Unlike the methods of perseverance, authority, and the a priori method, the scientific method assumes that there are real events and objects...