Purely objective reality /

This volume solves the problem of the subjectivity/objectivity couplet, making an indispensable contribution both to semiotics and to philosophy. Foremost American philosopher, John Deely, offers the first sustained and theoretically consistent interrogation of the means by which human understanding...

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Main Author: Deely, John
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2009
Series:Semiotics, communication and cognition ; 4.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter; Contents; Terminological Prenote; Praeludium Primum, or The Key Dilemma; Preamble on Objectivity; Chapter 1. The Problem of Objectivity; Chapter 2. Root of the Semiotic Resolution of the Problem of Objectivity; Chapter 3. Objectivity as a Branch on the Tree of Relations; Chapter 4. The FirstAppearance of Objectivity in Its Difference from Things; Chapter 5. The Source in Subjectivity of Relations of Apprehension; Chapter 6. The Sign -Arbitrariness or Historicity?; Chapter 7. The Social Construction of Reality; Chapter 8. What Difference Does It MakeWhat a Sign Is?