The term means To learn more about plurisignation, see ambiguity.
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Poetic Function of Language
To learn more about the poetic function of language, see aesthetic function.
Poiesis
A Greek term for creating, ("the activity in which a person brings something into being that did not exist before"). The term is used in opposition to praxis (doing, practicing) and theoria (theory).
Poly-
Preposition from Greek for many. Related: Polyfunctional Polysemy
Polyfunctional
Possessing many or at least several functions. Related: Architecture Fashion
Polysemy
Possessing many or at least several meanings.
Positivism
A doctrine presented by Auguste Comte (1798-1857), at the heart of which is the assertion that positive (scientific) knowledge is doomed to replace the philosophical (metaphysical), which is speculative, just as philosophical speculation has previously replaced...
Postmodernism
A widely used term to denote the sensitivity of advanced capitalist countries since at least the 1960s. In The Postmodern Condition, Jean-François Lyotard writes: "Simply put, I would define the postmodern as distrust of metanarratives" (1979 [1984], XXIV). Still,...
Post-structuralism
A contemporary theoretical movement in which certain structuralist positions (the most notable is that of language as a system of differences) are back in circulation, and some central structuralist aspirations (especially the desire to transform the study of...
Postulate
As with the axiom and the hypothesis, this is a proposition from which other truths are separated or on which the inquiry is based. In the strict sense of the word, his postulate lacks the certainty of the axiom, but it is nevertheless more than a purely conditional...
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Difference
Difference is synonymous with otherness, opposition. Related: Binary opposition Much has been done on diversity in both structuralism and poststructuralism. It is used to explain the most important units in language and the way they originate; the rhetoric of...
Thing-in-itself
The thing-in-itself is a concept introduced by Immanuel Kant. Things-in-themselves would be objects as they are, independent of observation. The concept led to much controversy among philosophers. It is closely related to Kant's concept of noumenon or the object of...
Ding an Sich
A German expression that is usually used as the opposite of the presented or phenomenon (the object as presented to us). The modern German philosopher Immanuel Kant sharply distinguishes objects in themselves from objects as they appear to us, arguing that our...
Discourse
A term sometimes used in the translation of the speech. Ferdinand de Saussure divided language (langue), seen as a self-sufficient system of formal differences, from speech (parole), the actual utterance of the individual utterer. He did this to facilitate the...
Discursive Practice
A term, that is used to illuminate the many discourses in which one is involved (e.g., philosophy, literary criticism, political commentary), these are practices and even more - practices that intersect with other non-discursive practices. What and how we read and...
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