Re: Re: semiotics
- Posted by david <mpenzi at bellsouth.net> Nov 08, 2002
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Interesting that you mentioned him. I have a first edition english translation of 'Foucault's Pendulum' in hardcover. I wonder how far Euphoria could go in a simulation of the Pendulum? Hmmmm, the possiblilties... > > From: Juergen Luethje <jluethje at gmx.de> > Subject: Re: semiotics > > > Kat wrote: > > > On 7 Nov 2002, at 18:41, david wrote: > > > >> > >> semiotics is the science of human languages, how they work, structure, etc. > > > > Or, a philosophical theory of the functions of signs and symbols. Tokens > > with > > meaning, like words. > > > > Kat > > Absolutely right. Semiotics isn't the same as linguistics. > e.g. http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/semiotic.html > > BTW, Umberto Eco isn't "only" a writer, but also a professor for > semiotics. > > Regards, > Juergen > > > > " '...But this is one thought that has impressed me, Govinda. Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.' 'Are you jesting?' asked Govinda. 'No, I am telling you what I have discovered. Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it..." - fr. Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)