Two-element distinction. Like the dichotomy, dualism makes a clear distinction between mutually exclusive or completely different elements. For example, René Descartes is known for his method of man, often described as dualistic, man is composed of two different...
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Dyad
A pair, sequence, or anything else that has two parts, sides, or dimensions.
Dyadic
Defined by two terms. The dynamic duo of Batman and Robin is a diabetic combination. There is also a technical, mathematical meaning to the term dyadic. In the context of semiotics, however, this technical meaning is almost never used.
Principle of Economy
The principle that maximum performance is obtained through minimum effort (high productivity) is called the principle of economy. Related: Abridgement
Écriture
Écriture is a common French word for "writing", "handwriting". When this French word is left untranslated in an English text, the term is probably used in one or more senses established by a contemporary French author. In a sense, Écritures refers to writing as an...
Écrivain
Écrivain is a term used by Roland Barthes and others to denote something that is often translated as "author", the producer of texts for whom the verb "write" is intransitive. In this sense, writing focuses the reader's attention on the writing activity and not on...
Écrivant
Écrivant is a French word for a writer. In order to find out about the term Écrivant, please refer to Écrivain.
Ego
Ego is a Latin word for "I," often used as a psychoanalytic term denoting a particular part of the human soul, that part that defines the role of the intermediate between Id and reality or between Id and the superego. Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory has...
Emic/Etic
Emic / Etic are the definitions adopted by Kenneth L. Pike to denote two different approaches to the study of such subjects as language or culture, emic - the approach is one that deals with a particular language or culture, while etic - the approach has general...
Empiricism
Empiricism is a doctrine that professes that all knowledge is based on experience or observation. Contrary to the claim that the human mind possesses innate ideas, John Locke and other empiricists accept that by birth reason is a tabula rasa (pure plate) and the only...
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Being
An extremely broad term used to denote everything that is, in any form. It stands for the status of something to be, instead of the status to be nothingness. The nature and form of being were of paramount importance to Western thinkers. Questions about the...
Belief
Generally speaking, belief is the conscious acceptance of the truth of a proposition. According to Charles S. Peirce, the predisposition to act in a certain way under certain circumstances; belief is that according to which a person is ready to act. Sometimes...
Besprochene Welt
Besprochene Welt - from German - Spoken World, is a term used by Harald Weinrich and is often translated as a Discursive or Commented World, which is different from the Narrated World (Erzählten Welt). The Discursive World is one in which the originator and the...
Binary Code
A binary code is a type of code (or network of relationships) based on two elementary signals, such as the dot and dash of the Morse code or the positive and negative electrical impulses. Thus, binarization is a process in which elementary signals from one code (for...
Binarism
The tendency to look at topics and phenomena, even those that are intricately constructed, in terms of oppositional pairs or conglomerates of such. Related: Binary code Binary opposition
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