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Intuition, Intuitive Knowledge

Intuition, Intuitive Knowledge is synonymous with immediate knowledge. Charles Peirce uses intuition in a purely technical sense to denote a knowledge determined not by another knowledge, but only by an object outside consciousness. The conclusion of an argument is...

Irreducible, Irreducibility

Irreducible - the essence or status of something to be irreducible or indivisible, without dissolving into something simpler. At the heart of Charles Peirce's understanding of signs is the assertion that signs are irreducibly triadic. If we compare the following two...

Iteration, Iterability

Iteration is the process by which something (such as a sign) is replicated or reproduced; Iterability is the ability to repeat or repeat; to be able to repeat or reproduce over and over again. It is generally accepted that this is an essential feature of the signs....

Jouissance

Jouissance is a French word that means rapture or pleasure. Jouissance is often used to describe sexual orgasm. Roland Barthes often uses the word to identify a specific type of text and what he calls pleasure of text.

Lack

Lack is a term used by Jacques Lacan to denote Lack, animated Lack, or neglect. This use echoes Hegel (1770-1831), a philosopher who sheds light on the "potential power of negation." This power is manifested in desire: a lack of feeling, a compelling feeling of being...



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