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1. The American Journal of Semiotics: Volume > 1 > Issue: 3
Mihai Nadin Consistency, Completeness, and the Meaning of Sign Theories
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Eugen Baer The Medical Symptom: Phylogeny and Ontogeny
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Thomas A. Sebeok Dialogue About Signs with a Nobel Laureate
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Daniel Patte Greimas’s Model for the Generative Trajectory of Meaning in Discourses
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Henryk Baran BOOKS RECEIVED
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Jerzy Pelc Semiotic and Nonsemiotic Concepts of Meaning
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Joan L. Erdman The Empty Beat: Khālī as a Sign of Time
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Henryk Baran BOOKS RECEIVED
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Roberta Kevelson Comparative Legal Cultures and Semiotics: An Introduction
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Peirce defines the legal expression proximale cause and effect as an “obscure term like most of the terms of Aristotelianism.” He says that students of law and logic should be shocked by thc practicc of justifying the payment of damages in law by reference to a “term in Aristotelian logic or metaphysics.” That such practice does occur underscores and “illustrates the value of PRAGMATISM.” Peirce reminds usthat in English law the term “witness” does not mean a person who testifies to his own experience, “but to facts which he knows by the immediate testimony of others” (from Baldwin’sDictionary, vol. 2,281-282; in CP 6.391).Practical law, Peirce suggests, results from persons whose knowledge of the facts of experience are formed in dialogue with others whose experience confirms their own. The dialogue is immediate; the knowledge is mediated through signs. From the viewpoint of Peirce’s pragmatism which he sees as an integral part of his semiotic Methodology or Speculative Rhetoric (MSS 774, 775) this paper will assurne that there are distinct types of legal cultures and that each may be regarded as a method of inquiry for the purpose of realizing social values. The relation between Laws and Societies-systems of legalities and legitimacies-will be regarded as culture-specific modes of dialectic. I propose here that Peirce’s Methodology-his method of methods-may account for the way that “patterns of conceptual change retlect the presuppositional structures of conceptual systems” (Toulmin 1972 :70-71). Within the framework of a semiotics of law I will be looking at various ways the idea of the Legal System has been interpreted.
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Elena Semeka-Pankratov The Structure of a Twin Myth In Māhavamsa
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Robert Corrington Nature’s God and the Return of the Material Maternal
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Benedict Ashley Catholicism as a Sign System: Three Religious Languages
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Michael Raposa The Fuzzy Logic of Religious Discourse
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Claudia Barnett, Robert L. Davis Baudriflora: Celebrating History in the Heart of Simulation
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Kwai-Cheung Lo Chinese Communism: Community and the Problem L’objet a or revenant
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Peter Ochs Rabbinic Semiotics
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Amer Ameri On Truth, In Theory: Representation and the Crisis of Signification in Theoretical Discourse on Architecture
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Assi Farber, Claude Gandelman Iconizing the Text / Textualizing the Body: Judaism as a Graphocentric Religion
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Michael V. Montgomery “Young Mr. Lincoln”: Idyllic Chronotope and Historical Inversion
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Juliet Flower MacCannell, Dean MacCannell Editorial