Semiological Investigations, or Topics Pertaining to the General Theory of Signs : Reprint of the original Latin text Tentamina semiologica, si ve quaedam generalem theoriam signorum spectantia (1789).
Title:
Semiological Investigations, or Topics Pertaining to the General Theory of Signs : Reprint of the original Latin text Tentamina semiologica, si ve quaedam generalem theoriam signorum spectantia (1789).
Author:
Hoffbauer, Johann Cristoph.
ISBN:
9789027277817
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (148 pages)
Series:
Foundations of Semiotics ; v.4
Foundations of Semiotics
Contents:
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.
Abstract:
Reprint of the original Latin text Tentamina semiologica, sive quaedam generalem theoriam signorum spectantia (1789), edited, translated and with an Introduction by Robert E. Innis The 33 sections of this classic text by Hoffbauer have a twofold focus: a descriptive inventory of signs, and a comparison of the expressive and cognitive powers of different sign systems. Using his sign typology as a point of departure, Hoffbauer inquires into the elements of matter and form both necessary and adequate to arrive at a definition of the sign. His purpose in doing so is to present his own version of a general sign theory after pointing out significant errors and weaknesses in the characteristicae universalis of Leibniz, Becher, Toennis, Kalmar, etc. Against the background of criticism of the contemporary deductive sign theories of Lambert, Baumgarten, Mendelssohn, Daries, Wilkins, Kircher and others, Hoffbauer's general semiology gives shape to an outline of a deductive-hypothetical theory of signs. In this historical perspective, Hoffbauer's semiology is of outstanding importance and provides the opportunity to think through once again central and permanent problems of the general science of signs.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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