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...
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Peircean Categories
Firstness (the thing in itself), Secondness (resisting), and thirdness (inter-; intermittent); In other words - qualitative immediacy, brutal confrontation, and dynamic mediation. Peirce's categories are designed to draw attention to what he believes are always...
Principle of Economy
The principle that maximum performance is obtained through minimum effort (high productivity) is called the principle of economy. Related: Abridgement
Pan-
Greek prefix for everything or everyone. The panacea is a cure for all diseases, the panoramic view is clear, in which all directions can be seen simultaneously. Related: Pansemiotic
Panchronic
Panchronic comes from the Greek words pan- and Chronos (time). A panchronic approach to, say, language is an approach that includes every aspect or all dimension of time. It must be understood in relation to diachronic and synchronic. The diachronic approach focuses...
Pansemiotic, Pansemioticsm
Understanding that everything is in some way and to some extent a sign. Charles S. Peirce goes a long way in claiming that "the whole universe ... is permeated with signs, if not composed exclusively of signs" (CP 5.448). Umberto Eco warns of semiotic imperialism -...
Paradigm
In the most general sense, paradigm means pattern or way (especially a vivid example, such that is not negotiable); In a more specific sense, a paradigm is a theoretical, methodological, or heuristic framework. The second, more technical significance refers to the...
Paradigm Shift
The historian and philosopher of science, Thomas Kuhn, in his The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), himself revolutionized the way we should think about science. Kuhn distinguishes periods from normal science, alternating with conceptual revolutions. Kuhn...
Paradigmatic vs. Syntagmatic
To learn more about the opposition paradigmatic vs syntagmatic, please see associative and axis.
Parapraxis
Parapraxis is a technical term for what is usually called a Freudian slip. Freud believed that these mistakes were significant. That is, they almost always betray powerful but unconscious motives.
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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.
