
On the Medieval Theory of Signs
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- 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
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