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Author Simon, Josef, 1930-

Title Philosophy of the sign / Josef Simon ; translated by George Heffernan
Published Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 291 pages)
Series SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy
SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy.
Contents 1. Foreword to the Theme -- 2. Being and Sign since Aristotle -- 3. Delimitation from Semiotics -- 4. Archetype -- Image -- Illusion -- 5. Pointing Sign and Naming Sign -- 6. Preliminary Remark on Method -- 7. Sign and Meaning -- 8. Sign and Concept -- 9. First Excursus to Peirce -- 10. Arbitrariness -- 11. The Proposition -- 12. Propositional Parts -- 13. Problem Solving -- 14. The Same Thing and Different Things -- 15. Interpretation and Reference -- 16. Sign and Sensibility -- 17. First Excursus to Kant and Hegel -- 18. Semantic Positions -- 19. Signs and Things (Sensing, Perceiving, Thinking) -- 20. Negation as a Primitive Sign -- 21. Time I -- 22. Thought Schemata, Space and Time of Consciousness -- 23. Acting -- 24. Sign Convention -- 25. Understanding Others. Translatability -- 26. Signs of Natural Science -- 27. Sign and Time. The Human Being and the State -- 28. The Sign "Being" -- 29. Nietzsche Relieves Ontology of Its Position -- 30. Philosophical Questions
Summary In this book, Simon wields Ockham's razor like a scythe to argue historically and systematically for a coherent philosophy of the sign as sign with an unprecedented minimum of ontological and semantical commitments. Deconstructing Plato, Frege, and Husserl, he accounts for signs without positing the existence either of meanings which they express or of things to which they refer. Indeed, he shows that one cannot understand anything that is not a sign, so that one never gets to meanings without signs or things beyond signs
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Semantics.
Signs and symbols.
Semantics
semantics.
symbols.
PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Post-Structuralism.
Semantics
Signs and symbols
Semantiek.
Tekens.
Philosophy & Religion.
Philosophy.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 94022420
ISBN 0585093172
9780585093178
Other Titles Philosophie des Zeichens. English