Pragmaticism is a term introduced by Charles S. Peirce to distinguish his own version of pragmatism from other versions. In 1905, Peirce noted that "the word (pragmatism) began to appear even in literary magazines, where it was abused in the ruthless way one would...
Semiology Glossary
Pragmatics
Pragmatics is a term used by Charles Morris to denote a branch of semiotics dedicated to the study of the relationship between signs and their many users (i.e., their creators and interpreters). Related: Semantics Syntactics
Pragmatism
Pragmatism is a philosophical doctrine formulated and defended by Charles S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, George Herbert Mead, and K. A. Lewis. It was originally formulated by Peirce as a maxim about how to clarify our ideas. Related: Grades of Clarity...
Praxis
Praxis is a Greek word for practice, used in opposition to theory, on the one hand, and poiesis, on the other. Related: Discursive practice
Predicate, Predication
The term comes from the Latin predicare "to say about". Predication is what is said about something, or the process. In the simple sentence, "Peter Carlo is delightful", the quality "delightful" is a predicate (said) for a person. The word or expression spoken about...
Prescissive
Prescissive is a term used by Charles S. Peirce to denote the form or process in which we focus on some aspects of a phenomenon while ignoring others. Related: Abstraction Hypostatic Abstraction
Metaphysics of Presence
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.
Primary Process
Primary Process is a psychoanalytic term used to identify each of the many processes in which the unconscious or Id seeks to satisfy their repressed passions and desires. Related: Sigmund Freud
Private Language
Private Language is a term used by Ludwig Wittgenstein to denote by an oxymoron the sign system available for use by only one isolated user of the language. For Wittgenstein and many other prominent authors who contributed to the development of semiotics, all...
Privilege, privileged
Privilege is an activity in which something is given without merit, and often out of preference; We call privileged the status of being preferred. Privilege and its derivatives are preferred terms in the vocabulary of deconstructivists and postmodernists. The purpose...
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Displacement
А Freudian term, meaning a process or result of redirecting an emotion or impulse from its original object to another, is more acceptable. If a child who is angry with his friend expresses hostility to a relative, the anger is displaced. Displacement is activated...
Dissemination
A term used by Roland Barthes and especially Jacques Derrida to suggest the essential openness and productivity of the text. According to such literary semiotics as Barthes and Derrida, the function of the text is not representative but productive; it is not a mirror...
Distinction
Distinction is the process of accounting for differences; the result of such a process. It is useful to differentiate, even to separate things, the process of differentiation is different from that of dividing two or more things. It is one thing to distinguish two...
Double Articulation
To learn more about the term Double Articulation, please visit the article articulation.
Dream
A phenomenon that, according to Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, and other thinkers, should be treated as a text. The dream, no less than the novel or the play, is above all an invitation to interpretation. Lacan and others combined the resources of psychoanalysis and...
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