The thing-in-itself is a concept introduced by Immanuel Kant. Things-in-themselves would be objects as they are, independent of observation. The concept led to much controversy among philosophers. It is closely related to Kant's concept of noumenon or the object of...
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Taxonomy
Taxonomy is a term meaning classification, as well as the study of the principles of classification. Charles S. Peirce was interested in classification in both senses of the term. He and Ferdinand de Saussure (co-discoverer of modern semiotics) also devoted much of...
Text
Text is a term used today in a very broad sense, covering not only verbal but also other forms of communication. One can find claims that a person or a city is a text. A distinctive feature of this new use of text comes from the fact that the derivatives of the word...
Thematize
Thematize is a term that means explication and focusing.
Thirdness
Thirdness is one of the three universal categories of Charles Peirce. Defined formally and abstractly, it is something in between or mediating (CP 5.104). Everything is something in itself; this Peirce calls firstness. We can call it a "thing-in-itself." Everything...
Thought
Thinking is the process or act of thinking, the product or result of that process or act. In semiotics, it is seen as a sign process. According to its supporters, semiotics has a conceptual revolution, a radical revision of the way we think about such things as...
Token vs. Type
For more information on the opposition token vs. type, please see type vs. token.
Trace
Trace is a term that occupies an important place in Jacques Derrida's grammatology. The trace also the inscription in the grammatology of Derrida has the same meaning as the sign in the semiology of Saussure or in the semiotics of Charles S. Peirce. If an object never...
Transcendental
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...
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...
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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.
