
Semiological Investigations, or Topics Pertaining to the General Theory of Signs
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- SEMIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS, OR TOPICS PERTAINING TO THE GENERAL THEORY OF SIGNS
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- Translator's Introduction
- Note on the translation
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Biographical Sketch
- Notes
- Preface
- Contents
- Semiological Investigations orTopics Pertaining to the General Theory of Signs
- §1. Definitions
- §2. Natural Signs
- §3. Their Necessary Conditions
- §4. Why terms especially deserve to be considered
- §5. Grounds for distinguishing necessary and possible terms
- Corollaries
- §6. Intuitive and symbolic knowledge
- §7. The material and formal components of signs
- §8. Primitive and derived signs
- §9. The number of elements
- §10. Relative aptitudes of sense objects to be signs
- §11. How terms further clear and distinct knowledge
- §12. The improving of derived signs
- §13. The system of signs
- §14. An example from the Arabic number system
- §15. Derived, hypothetically necessary signs and when primitive signs are manifestly arbitrary
- §16. Necessary elements in derived signs
- §17. Material elements, more closely considered
- §18. Formal elements of the sign, more closely considered
- §19. What the derivational laws demand
- §20. Why languages do not contain systems of signs
- §21. Dangers of a universal characteristic as developed by Leibniz, Becher, Toennies, Kalmar, and others
- §22. Perfection of hieroglyphic or iconic signs
- §23. The subjective perfection of signs
- §24. How one is to consider the brevity of the sign without prejudicing its objective perfection
- §25. The twofold use of essential signs
- §26. Discovery with the aid of a calculus
- §27. B) The sign at which we ultimately arrive
- §28. The idea of a calculus more universal than an algebra constructed in accordance with such a model.
- §29. How hieroglyphic signs aid invention
- §30. Perfection of hieroglyphic or iconic signs recounted in preceding paragraph reduces to the perfection of essential signs
- §31. Parallelism more closely considered
- §32. The special use of hieroglyphic metaphorical signs
- §33. B) Synecdochical signs
- Appendix
- Notes
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