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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818433203321

Titolo

On the medieval theory of signs / / edited by Umberto Eco and Costantino Marmo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 1989

ISBN

1-283-04722-5

9786613047229

90-272-8604-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

ix, 224 p. : ill

Collana

Foundations of semiotics, , 0168-2555 ; ; v. 21

Altri autori (Persone)

EcoUmberto

MarmoCostantino

Disciplina

001.51/0902

Soggetti

Philosophy, Medieval

Semiotics - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

ON THE MEDIEVAL THEORY OF SIGNS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Section I -- On animal language in the medieval classification of signs* -- 1. The center and the marges: latratus canis -- 2. Signs and words -- 3. Aristotle -- 4. De Interpretatione 16a: from Boethius to Aquinas -- 5. Litterata and Articulata -- 6. Abelard: Institutio and Impositio -- 7. Augustine and the Stoic legacy -- 8. Roger Bacon -- 9. From intension to-extension -- Notes -- References -- Denotation -- Aristotle -- Boethius -- Anselm's 'appellatio' -- Abelard -- Aquinas -- The rising of the idea of supposition -- Bacon -- Duns Scotus and the Modistae -- Ockham -- After Ockham -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Section II -- Thomas Aquinas: Natural semiotics and the epistemological process -- 1. Concerning the intellect -- 2. Sensation and Knowledge -- 3. Signs and the intellect -- 4. The reflexio and the intellect -- 5. A map of signs -- 6. The codes of reality -- Abbreviations -- References -- Sicut tabernarius vinum significat per circulum: Directions in contemporary interpretations of the Modistae -- 1. Modism as Worttheorie: Enders' hypothesis -- 2. Chomsky, Ockham and the Modistae -- 3. Young Heidegger, Husserl, and categorial



grammars -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Ontology and semantics in the logic of Duns Scotus* -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Some remarks on Scotus' ontology -- 2. Scotus' semantics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Mental signs and the theory of representation in Ockham -- 1. Linguistic signs -- 2. The semiotic status of mental linguistic signs -- 3. Mental signs, knowledge, and the language of angels -- 4. The question of mental syncategoremata -- 5. Mental language and the theory of representation -- Notes -- References -- The series Foundations of Semiotics.

Sommario/riassunto

In the course of the long debate on the nature and the classification of signs, from Boethius to Ockham, there are at least three lines of thought: the Stoic heritage, that influences Augustine, Abelard, Francis Bacon; the Aristotelian tradition, stemming from the commentaries on De Interpretatione; the discussion of the grammarians, from Priscian to the Modistae. Modern interpreters are frequently misled by the fact that the various authors regularly used the same terms. Such a homogeneous terminology, however, covers profound theoretical differences. The aim of these essays is to show that the medieval theory of signs does not represent a unique body of semiotic notions: there are diverse and frequently alternative semiotic theories. This book thus represents an attempt to encourage further research on the still unrecognized variety of the semiotic approaches offered by the medieval philosophies of language.