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Considerations on Arbitrariness vs Non-arbitrariness of Linguistic Sign [PDF]
Philologia, 2023 This article focuses on issues related to the arbitrary and non-arbitrary nature of the linguistic signs (monolexical and polylexical), the types and cases of linguistic motivation and the criteria of lexical denomination.
Stella HÎRBU
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Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2021 This article proposes a radical take on what an archive should be: catastrophe, the overturning of property. By way of James Clifford, Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, Walter Benjamin, Clarice Lispector, Jorge Luis Borges, and Cildo Meireles, we seek to ...
Caio Yurgel
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Indexes: Cultural Nature and Natural Culture
Rivista di Estetica, 2021 Umberto Eco’s essential contribution to semiotics consisted in finding a theoretical equilibrium between deconstructive tendencies, aiming at presenting cultural habits as pure conventional but naturalized products, and motivational trends, claiming the ...
Massimo Leone
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Symbolic Signal Use in Wild Chimpanzee Gestural Communication?: A Theoretical Framework
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Symbolic communication is not obvious in the natural communicative repertoires of our closest living relatives, the great apes. However, great apes do show symbolic competencies in laboratory studies.
Julia Cissewski, Lydia V. Luncz
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Can nonhuman primate signals be arbitrarily meaningful like human words? An affective approach [PDF]
Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2020 Whether one can label nonhuman primate signals as ‘meaningful’ hinges on what one takes as central features to meaning. If one targets a notion of meaning closely related and comparable to meaning in human words, two features must be identified: firstly,
Christine Sievers , Thibaud Gruber
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Philosophical Studies, 2021 AbstractThe aim of this paper is to introduce, elucidate and defend the usefulness of a variant of grounding, or metaphysical explanation, that has the feature that the grounds explain of some states of affairs that one of them obtains without explaining which one obtains. I will dub this variantarbitrary grounding.
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The architect as an object of history [PDF]
Arhitektura i Urbanizam, 2021 The paper problematizes the state of the contemporary architectural discipline, focusing on the functional crisis of the author, starting from the assumption that the dialectical form of the biographical approach in the analysis of architectural matter ...
Mitrović Jelena, Dedić Sonja
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Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 1952 Generalization of some results of \textit{H. Blumberg} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 24, 113--128 (1922; JFM 49.0176.04), Duke Math. J. 11, 671--685 (1944; Zbl 0063.00470)]. Let \(X\) be a given set and \(\mathfrak N\) a nonvoid system of nonvoid sets \(\subseteq X\). Only such \(\mathfrak N\) are considered that there is a countable subcollection of \(N^k\in
Block, H. D., Cargal, Buchanan
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The “Flip Side” of Peter the Great’s Reforms
RUDN Journal of Russian History, 2021 Under discussion the question if Peter the Greats reforms were truly revolutionary. The author focuses on two aspects: the extent to which his innovations altered the patrimonial system that had dominated Muscovy over the previous three centuries, and ...
Tatiana V. Chernikova
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On the arbitrariness of consumption [PDF]
Applied Economics Letters, 2009 We discuss a simple model of choices of joint consumption by a working couple who place maintenance of their marriage (relationship) above all else. Any proposal made by one partner seeking to provide maximal utility to the other so as to preserve the marriage, in the case where preferences of partners are unknown, will be accepted.
John Whalley, Shunming Zhang
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