Signum ad placitum is Latin for conventional signs. Related: Signum
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Syntagmatic vs. Paradigmatic
For more information on the opposition syntagmatic vs. paradigmatic, please check associative, and axis. Related: Syntagm
Sign System
Sign system is a key concept in semiotics. It is used to refer to any system of signs and relations between signs. For example, the term language is frequently used as a synonym of a sign system. But, as the term language carries certain connotations of human...
System of Representation
The system of representation is generally a system of signs that makes it possible to represent events, objects, or personalities. Any natural sign (such as English or French) is an example of such a system. In modern semiotics, the dichotomy embedded in the system of...
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
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
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
Scientia is the Latin word for science or knowledge. In the medieval scriptures, it means the demonstrated knowledge of things through their causes.
Scientificity
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
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
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...
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Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of language. It encompasses the analysis of every aspect of language, as well as the methods for studying and modeling them. The traditional areas of linguistic analysis include phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics,...
Phenomenology
A term used by Charles S. Peirce to denote a discipline of philosophy. The term is also used to denote an important movement in modern philosophy, identified with such thinkers as Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Roman Ingarden. It could be said that this...
Feminism
Feminism is an ideology, that, like other ideologies uses reductionism to explain complex issues like, for example, the one that the feminists most commonly cite - the rights to equal pay. Like most ideologies, the feministic too has its roots in somewhat reasonable...
Rationalism
Rationalism in a very general sense means devotion to reason; in a narrower sense, it refers to the doctrine that reason itself has the ability to know reality. In a general sense, then, the rationalist is a defender and advocate of reason. Rationalism is often used...
Intertextuality
Intertextuality is a term introduced by Julia Kristeva and widely accepted by literary theorists to denote the complex way in which a text relates to other texts. Just as there is no sign separate from other signs, there is no text separate from other texts. In...
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A completely and truly free course on Semiology (Semiotics). Learn about the meaning of signs, how and why did the field emerged. What is the relationship between the street signs and the signs that we use every day - words.
