Diagrammatology: An Investigation on the Borderlines of Phenomenology, Ontology, and SemioticsDiagrammatology investigates the role of diagrams for thought and knowledge. Based on the general doctrine of diagrams in Charles Peirce's mature work, Diagrammatology claims diagrams to constitute a centerpiece of epistemology. The book reflects Peirce's work on the issue in Husserl's contemporanous doctrine of "categorial intuition" and charts the many unnoticed similarities between Peircean semiotics and early Husserlian phenomenology. Diagrams, on a Peircean account, allow for observation and experimentation with ideal structures and objects and thus furnish the access to the synthetic a priori of the regional and formal ontology of the Husserlian tradition. The second part of the book focuses on three regional branches of semiotics: biosemiotics, picture analysis, and the theory of literature. Based on diagrammatology, these domains appear as accessible for a diagrammatological approach which leaves the traditional relativism and culturalism of semiotics behind and hence constitutes a realist semiotics. |
Contents
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How to Learn More | 49 |
Moving Pictures of Thought | 89 |
Everything is Transformed | 117 |
Categories Diagrams Schemata | 141 |
Mereology | 161 |
Diagrammatical Reasoning and the Synthetic A Priori | 175 |
The Signifying Body | 257 |
Christ Levitating and the Vanishing Square | 275 |
Small Outline of a Theory of the Sketch | 321 |
Who is Michael WoLing PtahHotep Jerolomon? | 327 |
Five Types of Schematic Iconicity in the Literary Text | 345 |
The Man Who Knew Too Much | 365 |
Perspective | 383 |
Notes | 425 |
Biosemiotics as Material and Formal Ontology | 197 |
A Natural Symphony? | 225 |
Man the Abstract Animal | 241 |
Bibliography | 483 |
Name Index | 498 |
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Diagrammatology: An Investigation on the Borderlines of Phenomenology ... Frederik Stjernfelt No preview available - 2010 |
Diagrammatology: An Investigation on the Borderlines of Phenomenology ... Frederik Stjernfelt No preview available - 2007 |
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abstraction actual already animals appear argument aspects basic becomes biology called central character claim completely concept connected consequently consists constitute construction continuity continuum corresponding course defined definition dependency determination diagram diagrammatical discussion distinction empirical evident example existence experience expression fact figure follows formal function further geometry given gives hand Husserl hypothesis icon idea ideal imagination implies important instance intention interesting interpretation intuition involves issue knowledge latter less linguistic logic mathematics means nature necessary notion object observation ontology organism Peirce Peirce’s perception phenomenological picture possible present priori probably problem properties proposition pure qualities question reasoning reference relation remains represented respectively result role schematic seems semiotics sense similarity single space specific structure symbol taken theory things third thought transformation turn types universal variation whole
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Page 76 - The only way of directly communicating an idea is by means of an icon; and every indirect method of communicating an idea must depend for its establishment upon the use of an icon. Hence, every assertion must contain an icon or set of icons, or else must contain signs whose meaning is only explicable by icons.
Page 49 - An Icon is a sign which refers to the Object that it denotes merely by virtue of characters of its own, and which it possesses, just the same, whether any such Object actually exists or not.
Page 98 - Index is a sign which refers to the Object that it denotes by virtue of being really affected by that Object...
Page 91 - The truth, however, appears to be that all deductive reasoning, even simple syllogism, involves an element of observation ; namely, deduction consists in constructing an icon or diagram the relations of whose parts shall present a complete analogy with those of the parts of the object of reasoning, of experimenting upon this image in the imagination, and of observing the result so as to discover unnoticed and hidden relations among the parts.
Page 9 - The principle of continuity is the idea of fallibilism objectified. For fallibilism is the doctrine that our knowledge is never absolute but always swims, as it were, in a continuum of uncertainty and of indeterminacy.
Page 23 - A Sign, or Representamen, is a First which stands in such a genuine triadic relation to a Second, called its Object, as to be capable of determining a Third, called its Inter pretant, to assume the same triadic relation to its Object in which it stands itself to the same Object.
Page 92 - Given a conventional or other general sign of an object, to deduce any other truth than that which it explicitly signifies, it is necessary, in all cases, to replace that sign by an icon. This capacity of revealing unexpected truth is precisely that wherein the utility of algebraical formulae consists, so that the iconic character is the prevailing one.
Page 39 - Then, he wrote ... let us ask what we mean by calling a thing hard. Evidently that it will not be scratched by many other substances.
Page ii - Editor: JAAKKO HINTIKKA, Boston University, USA Editors: DIRK VAN DALEN, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands...
References to this book
Tal en tanke: om klarhed og nonsens i taenkning og kommunikation Vincent F. Hendricks,Frederik Stjernfelt No preview available - 2007 |