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Terrence W. Deacon on Word Meaning - Dictionary of Arguments
I 59 Word Meaning/Deacon: it is not the case that words differ from other signals by chance or conventionally. --- I 60 Tradition: assumes that there are two kinds of referential or meaningful relations: a) transparent: here a similarity between the signal (word, picture, sign) and the object addressed (>Icon) works b) opaque: this resemblance is missing here. Instead, additional knowledge about the code is required. (>symbol). Icon: Refers to similarity characteristics between the sign (word, sound, image) and the object. (Transparency). Symbol: refers without such similarity, instead a code has to be learned. (Opacity). Signal: is simply a sign that is physically correlated with other objects without considering the semantics. ((s) >Index, >Petrol gauge example, Dretske). --- I 62 Reference: Examples such as the > twin earth show that reference does not generally need something like meaning to be determined. Reference/Solution/DeaconVsPutnam: what makes inanimate things such as blackening of the paper or a sign on the screen meaningful is an interpretation of which a crucial part really... --- I 63 (even if not everything) happens „in the head“. Reference is not intrinsic "in the" word (noise, gesture), but reference is formed by a kind of response to it. >Reference/Deacon, > Interpretation/Deacon._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Dea I T. W. Deacon The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of language and the Brain New York 1998 Dea II Terrence W. Deacon Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter New York 2013 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2023-06-03