The theory of arbitrary signification, predominant during the last half century, considers architecture’s intrinsic properties as having little to do with its meaning. Consequently, architecture’s significance is not based on itself but assigned externally. In the age of globalization, such an assignment is often ineffective. This paper will: (1) examine the post-WWII debates between the theori...

The naturalist approach, which aims at applying methods from the natural sciences to the study of music, provides a straightforward paradigm for dealing with causal musical signification processes. What is aimed at in this paper is (i) a tentative reconstruction of the tradition underlaying causal musical signification in its relationship to semiotics, (ii) the presentation and discussion of a ...

Theories of the sign T his consideration begins in the theories of signification proposed in Structuralism, particularly as elucidated by Ferdinand de Saussure and interpreted by Roland Barthes (drawing on Hjelmslev and others). It will further be informed by the general theory of “autopoiesis” as articulated byMaturana and Varela (1987) and by other recent studies of language and signification...

In Petry's edition of the Encyclopedia, it appears from the table of contents that Imagination is subdivided into (a) Reproductive Imagination, (b) Associative Imagination, and (c) Phantasy, which is then itself subdivided into (i) Symbol, (ii) Sign, and (iii) Language. But this division seems to be Boumann's, not Hegel's, for if attention is paid to the architectonic mentioned in the main para...

In line with the Principle of Uniform Solution, Graham Priest has challenged advocates like myself of the “multiple-meanings” solution to the paradoxes of truth and knowledge, due to the medieval logician Thomas Bradwardine, to extend this account to a similar solution to the paradoxes of denotation, such as Berry’s, König’s and Richard’s. I here rise to this challenge by showing how to adapt B...