Transcendental is a term proposed by Immanuel Kant and widely used by philosophers to denote forms of inquiry or reflection that are radically different from the empirical and experimental varieties of research. Transcendental research deals with the conditions under...
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Transcendental signified
The transcendental signified is a term used by Jacques Derrida and other deconstructivists to denote any signified that is not a signifier. Appeals to any transcendental signified have the effect of inference to arrest (as the police of thought might arrest) the play...
Transuasion
One of the names used by Charles S. Peirce for thirdness.
Triadic
Triple terminological, having parts, aspects, or levels. Peirce's definition of a sign as a relationship between a sign vehicle, an object, an interpreter, described as triadic, while Ferdinand de Saussure's is a relationship between signifier and signified and is...
Trichotomy
Unlike a dichotomy, which is a process of dividing something in two or the result of this process, a trichotomy is a process of dividing something into three or the result of this process (the trinity division or classification). Saussure's approach to the study of...
Trope
Trop is a figure of speech. A word or utterance is used in a figurative (not literal) sense. Metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche are among the most common tropes. Metaphor is sometimes used in a very broad sense as a synonym for trope (ie, a term covering all figures of...
Tuism
Tuism is a term used by Charles S. Peirce to denote a characteristic concept of thinking. One cannot improve one's thinking on one's own definition: "The doctrine that all thinking is addressed to another person or to a future Self as another person" (W 1: XXIX)....
Tychism
Tychism is a term used by Charles S. Peirce to denote the doctrine of absolute or objective chance (chance).
Type vs. Token
A type is a sign considered as an infinitely regenerating unit or function; A token, on the other hand, is an individual replication or example of a sign or more precisely a legisign (sign as a rule). The type itself is legisign, an indefinitely recoverable form....
Typology
Typology is a term synonymous with classification. The writings of semioticians related to the typology of signs. Perhaps the simplest of these is the classification of signs into natural and conventional. On the other hand, arguably the most complex classification is...
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Humanism
The term humanism is often used in an extremely broad sense to denote the acceptance of the values of the dignity of human beings. In a narrower sense, humanity stands for cultural and intellectual movement, that has started in the Rennaisance (possibly even earlier),...
Hypostatic Abstraction
Hypostatic Abstraction is a specific form of abstraction, identified and pointed out by Charles Peirce. He distinguishes between two types of abstraction - hypostatic and precisive abstraction. The precisive abstraction was to Peirce something very similar to what we...
Hypothesis
A hypothesis is, of course, a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation. Researchers are using all kinds of hypotheses to explain enigmatic phenomena. Charles Peirce has sometimes used...
“I”
"I" is the first person singular, often used in semiotic scriptures as a name denoting the subject. One of the main reasons the Self is used in this way is to emphasize the insight of the linguist Emile Benveniste that only in and through language can people be...
Icon
An iconic sign is a term used by Charles Peirce to denote a specific type of sign or sign function in which the sign vehicle represents its object through resemblance or likeness. The map, for example, is an iconic sign because it represents an area or terrain,...
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