Volume 39, 1998
Philosophy of Technology
Jörg Wurzer
Pages 61-64
The Win of the Sign Over the Signed
Philosophy for a Society in this Day and Age of Virtual Reality
Virtual reality is more than only high tech. We encounter this phenomenon in everyday media worlds and economy. The sign dominates the signed. Philosophy can describe this phenomenon by means of a different ontological analysis following Poppers theory of the three worlds and can prepare new ontological categories for knowledge of acting.