Semiology Glossary

Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis is a hypothesis concerning the role of the language we speak, in which we determine the form and character of the world we inhabit. Most people accept that the world is just here, apart from the language and other systems of representation we...

Scholastic means belonging to the most important thinkers of the Middle Ages (the period in Western history between approximately the years 500 and 1500, which is associated mostly with universities). For this reason, they are often called "scientists" and their...

Scientia is the Latin word for science or knowledge. In the medieval scriptures, it means the demonstrated knowledge of things through their causes.

We use the word science to denote the quality, form, or status of science, understood not in the medieval sense of Scientia, but in the modern sense of experimental inquiry. Due to the prestige of science, especially the natural sciences, contemporary representatives...

Scriptible is a French word that is most often translated as "written" and often left untranslated as a way of acknowledging its origin from the texts of the semiotician of French descent Roland Barthes.

Secondness is one of the three universal categories of Charles S. Peirce. Through secondness, he focuses attention on the opposite of reaction, on the brutal fact of one thing as opposed to another. The best example of pure secondness would be the unexpected collision...