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Intentionality and Semiotics
A Story of Mutual Fecundation
How can philosophy or science claim to discover objective truth when their arguments originate from subjective beings? In Intentionality and Semiotics, John Deely offers a controversial solution to the problem of subjectivity in inquiry. He creates an interface between semiotics and the concept of intentionality, as it appears in Aquinas’s work, to demonstrate that every sign is irrevocably linked to the reality of relations. In the process, Deely builds a bridge between classical thinkers such as Aristotle and modernists such as Heidegger and Peirce in this innovative volume.
Table of Contents
Note on Reference Style
Aviso. By Way of Evitating Needless Misunderstandings
Chapter 1. "Intentionality"
Chapter 2. Gilson and Aquinas
Chapter 3. Immateriality and Intentionality:
The Latin Development, Jacques Maritain,
and the Contemporary Scene
Chapter 4. Specifying Forms, Impressed and Expressed:
Terms without Equivalence in Modern Philosophy
Chapter 5. The Problem of Thing and Object
Chapter 6. Specifying Forms, Objects, and Things.
The Problem of Actual Intelligibility
Chapter 7. "Abstraction"
Appendix to Chapter 7
Chapter 8. "Agere Sequitur Esse":
The Role of Relation in the Order of Being
Chapter 9. Revolutionizing the Understanding of Subjectivity as
Ens Absolutum
Chapter 10. Ens Reale as a Sub-Division of Ens Primum Cognitum
Chapter 11. Esse Intentionale Again
Chapter 12. "Passions of the Soul": Sign-Vehicles as Subjective
Factors versus Signs as Suprasubjective Relations
Appendix to Chapter 12
Chapter 13. Ontological Relation and Esse Intentionale
Chapter 14. The Knowledge pf Essences
Chapter 15. A Truth More Complex and Interesting