LEADER 04234nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910818400003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-34538-9 010 $a9786612345388 010 $a1-934078-09-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781934078099 035 $a(CKB)1000000000799275 035 $a(EBL)476065 035 $a(OCoLC)560744267 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000307401 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11205533 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000307401 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10243774 035 $a(PQKB)10308511 035 $a(DE-B1597)37738 035 $a(OCoLC)979757925 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781934078099 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC476065 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000799275 100 $a20090708d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPurely objective reality /$fby John Deely 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerlin ;$aNew York $cMouton de Gruyter$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (227 p.) 225 1 $aSemiotics, communication, and cognition ;$v4 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-934078-07-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPart I: What Objective Reality Is and How It Is Possible -- $tTerminological Prenote -- $tPraeludium Primum, or The Key Dilemma -- $tPreamble on Objectivity -- $tChapter 1. The Problem of Objectivity -- $tChapter 2. Root of the Semiotic Resolution of the Problem of Objectivity -- $tChapter 3. Objectivity as a Branch on the Tree of Relations -- $tChapter 4. The FirstAppearance of Objectivity in Its Difference from Things -- $tChapter 5. The Source in Subjectivity of Relations of Apprehension -- $tChapter 6. The Sign -Arbitrariness or Historicity? -- $tChapter 7. The Social Construction of Reality -- $tPart II: Background to the Text -- $tChapter 8. What Difference Does It MakeWhat a Sign Is? -- $tChapter 9. Why Intersubjectivity Is Not Enough -- $tChapter 10. TheAmazing History of Sign -- $t Backmatter 330 $aIn his 'Letter on Humanism' of 1947, Heidegger declared that the subject/object opposition and the terminology that accrues to it had still not been properly addressed in the history of philosophy, and he awaited a proper disquisition that resolved the problem. To date, that has not been provided. This volume explains and solves the prevailing problems in the subjectivity/objectivity couplet, in the process making an indispensable contribution both to semiotics and to philosophy. This book shows that what is thought to be 'objective' in the commonplace use of the term is demonstrably different from what objectivity entails when it is revealed by semiotic analysis. It demonstrates in its exegesis of the 'objective' that human existence is frequently governed by examples of a 'purely objective reality' - a fiction which nevertheless perfuses, is perfused by, and guides experience. The ontology of the sign can be mind-dependent or mind-independent, just as the status of relation can be as legitimate on its own terms whether it is found in ens rationis or in ens reale. The difference in the awareness of human animals consists in this very contextualization that Deely's writings in general have made so evident: the ability to identify signs as sign relations, and the ability to enact relations on a mind-dependent basis. Purely Objective Reality offers the first sustained and theoretically consistent interrogation of the means by which human understanding of 'reality' will be instrumental in the survival - or destruction - of planet Earth. 410 0$aSemiotics, communication and cognition ;$v4. 606 $aObjectivity 606 $aSubjectivity 606 $aSemiotics 615 0$aObjectivity. 615 0$aSubjectivity. 615 0$aSemiotics. 676 $a121/.4 686 $aER 735$2rvk 700 $aDeely$b John N$0600827 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818400003321 996 $aPurely Objective Reality$94081248 997 $aUNINA