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The Phenomenology of Semiosis : Approaches to the Gap between the Encyclopaedia and the Porphyrian Tree Spanned by Sedimentation

Sonesson, Göran H. LU orcid (2022) In Philosophies 7(5).
Abstract

When putting semiotics and phenomenology in juxtaposition, the first task necessarily is to find out what a study of meaning, conceiving of itself as an empirical science, has to do with a philosophical school, the business of which it is to secure the epistemological foundations of all the sciences (broadly understood). Our answer, in short (but we will go at some length to show it), is that since all results of phenomenology also count as contributions to phenomenological psychology, the phenomenological method constitutes a part of the panoply of methods offered to semiotics. Our second task will be to review the fragmentary semiotics proposed, originally employing that term, by Edmund Husserl, to gauge its value for contemporary... (More)

When putting semiotics and phenomenology in juxtaposition, the first task necessarily is to find out what a study of meaning, conceiving of itself as an empirical science, has to do with a philosophical school, the business of which it is to secure the epistemological foundations of all the sciences (broadly understood). Our answer, in short (but we will go at some length to show it), is that since all results of phenomenology also count as contributions to phenomenological psychology, the phenomenological method constitutes a part of the panoply of methods offered to semiotics. Our second task will be to review the fragmentary semiotics proposed, originally employing that term, by Edmund Husserl, to gauge its value for contemporary semiotics. Since our investigation of Husserl’s semiotics will demonstrate that it sometimes concerns the sign in a narrow sense, and sometimes broadens up to a study of meaning in general, our third and final task, in this paper, will be to consider a proposal made by a close follower of Husserl, Alfred Schütz, whose idea of a system of relevancies, wedded to Husserl’s notion of sedimentation, might be amended when considered in connection with Umberto Eco’s idea of the encyclopaedia.

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fulfilment, meaning, methods, relevancy, rhizome, scheme of interpretation, sedimentation, semiosis, sign, thematic field
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7
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5
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114
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MDPI AG
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2409-9287
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10.3390/philosophies7050114
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  publisher    = {{MDPI AG}},
  series       = {{Philosophies}},
  title        = {{The Phenomenology of Semiosis : Approaches to the Gap between the Encyclopaedia and the Porphyrian Tree Spanned by Sedimentation}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/philosophies7050114}},
  doi          = {{10.3390/philosophies7050114}},
  volume       = {{7}},
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