Common sources for the semiotic of Charles Peirce and John Poinsot.

From: The Review of Metaphysics | Date: March 1, 1995| Author: Beuchot, Mauricio; Deely, John | Copyright information

John Charles Peirce is considered the founder of modern semiotics, which is a philosophy that deals with signs and their meaning. Peirce lived in the late 19th century but a scholar named John Poinsot, who lived in the 17th century, had similar ideas about signs. Peirce may not have known Poinsot but it is quite believable that his thinking was influenced by scholastic philosophy to which Poinsot's ideas belonged. This proves that semiotic consciousness underwent a historical evolution which ...

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