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Intersemiotic translation and transformational creativity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In this article we approach a case of intersemiotic translation as a paradigmatic example of Boden’s ‘transformational creativity’ category. To develop our argument, we consider Boden’s fundamental notion of ‘conceptual space’ as a regular pattern of ...
Aguiar, Daniella   +2 more
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Learning and knowing as semiosis: Extending the conceptual apparatus of semiotics

open access: yes, 2020
If all knowing comes from semiosis, more concepts should be added to the semiotic toolbox. However, semiotic concepts must be defined via other semiotic concepts. We observe an opportunity to advance the state-of-the-art in semiotics by defining concepts
Cary Campbell, A. Olteanu, K. Kull
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Action-thoughts and the genesis of time in linguistic semiosis

open access: yes, 2021
The genesis of time is explained in the spirit of constructivism combined with the activity approach to cognition. The cardinal temporal categories of present, past, and future are dis­cussed in terms of action-thoughts understood as elementary units of ...
A. Simsky   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Contributions to a semiotics of religion: the semiosis from sign to meaning

open access: yesInterações: Sociedade e as novas modernidades, 2021
This article approaches theoretically the religious experience in toto. Considering the semiotics applied to religion, contributions to understand and recognize the relevance of this discipline are proposed.
Paulo M. Barroso
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The role of biosemiosis and semiotic scaffolding in the processes of developing intelligent behaviour

open access: yesZagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 2021
Biosemiotics deals with the processes of signs in all dimensions of nature. Semiosis is the primary form of intelligence. Intelligent behaviour becomes immediately understandable in this approach because semiosis combines causality with the triadic ...
Anna Sarosiek
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Designing new socio-economic imaginaries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This short paper recovers the term ‘imaginaries’ which is often used in the social sciences to describe a meaning system that frames individuals lived experience of an inordinately complex world. The paper goes on to reflect on the extent to which design
Mehrpouya, Hadi   +5 more
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Spatial semiosis and time

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2005
Spatial semiosis differs from temporal one by its structural and functional peculiarities. Meaningful relations between units of spatial texts are not ordered along of temporal axe and do not need time in their form of expression. However time remains an
Leonid Tchertov
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Discerning Meaning and Producing Information: Semiosis in Knowing the Past

open access: yesInf., 2021
This article explores how the meaning of information related to things, people, events, and processes in the past is discerned and interpreted to satisfy some current purpose.
Kenneth Thibodeau
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The ontology of signs as linguistic and non-linguistic entities: a cognitive perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
It is argued that the traditional philosophical/linguistic analysis of semiotic phe-nomena is based on the false epistemological assumption that linguistic and non-linguistic entities possess different ontologies.
Kravchenko, Prof. A.V.
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Functional Information: Towards Synthesis of Biosemiotics and Cybernetics

open access: yesEntropy, 2010
Biosemiotics and cybernetics are closely related, yet they are separated by the boundary between life and non-life: biosemiotics is focused on living organisms, whereas cybernetics is applied mostly to non-living artificial devices. However, both classes
Alexei A. Sharov
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