In the World of Signs

Abstract

Introduction, How to Move in the World of Signs. PART I: THEORETICAL SEMIOTICS. Andrzej BOGUS_AWSKI: Conditionals and Egocentric Mental Predicates. Wojciech BUSZKOWSKI: On Families of Languages Generated by Categorial Grammar. Katalin G. HAVAS: Changing the World - Changing the Meaning. On the Meanings of the Principle of Non-Contradiction. Henryk HITZ: On Translation. Solomon MARCUS: Imprecision, Between Variety and Uniformity: The Conjugate Pairs. Jaroslav PEREGRIN, Petr SGALL: Meaning and Propositional Attitudes. Olgierd Adrian WOJTASIEWICZ: Some Applications of Metric Space in Theoretical Linguistics. PART II: METHODOLOGY. Evandro AGAZZI: Rationality and Certitude. Irena BELLERT: Human Reasoning and Artificial Intelligence. When Are Computers Dumb in Simulating Human Reasoning? Tomasz BIGAJ: Analyticity and Existence in Mathematics. Geoffrey B. KEENE: Taking up the Logical Slack in Natural Language. Andras Kertesz: Interdisciplinarity and the Myth of Exactness. Jan SRZEDNICKI: Norm as the Basis of Form. Juri S. STEPANOV: Cause in the Light of Semiotics. Jerzy A. WOJCIECHOWSKI: The Development of Knowledge as a Moral Problem. PART III: HISTORY OF SEMIOTICS. Erhard ALBRECHT: Philosophy of Language, Logic and Semiotics. Gerard DELEDALLE: A Philosopher's Reply to Questions Concerning Peirce's Theory of Signs. Janice DELEDALLE-RHODES: The Transposition of the Linguistic Sign in Peirce's Contributions to The Nation. Robert E. INNIS: From Feeling to Mind: A Note on Langer's Notion of Symbolic Projection. Roberta KEVELSON: Peirce's Semiotics as Complex Inquiry: Conflicting Methods. Jerzy KOPANIA: The Cartesian Alternative of Philosophical Thinking. Xiankun LI: Why Gonsung Long (Kungsun Lung) Said White Horse Is Not Horse. Lucia MELAZZO: A Report on Ancient Discussion. Ding-fu NI Semantic Thoughts of J. Stuart Mill and Chinese Characters. Irene PORTIS-WINNER: Lotman's Semiosphere: Some Comments. Joelle RETHORE: Another Close Look at the Interpretant. Edward STANKIEWICZ: The Semiotic Turn of Breal's Semantique. PART IV: LINGUISTICS. Klaus HEGER: Passive and Other Voices Seen from an Onomasiological Point of View. Laszlo I. KOMLOSZI: The Semiotic System of Events, Intrinsic Temporal and Deictic Tense Relations in Natural Language. On the Conceptualization of Temporal Schemata. Wac_aw M. OSADNIK, Ewa HORODECKA: Polysystem Theory, Translation Theory and Semiotics. Anna WIERZBICKA: THINK - a Universal Human Concept and a Conceptual Primitive. PART V: CULTURAL SEMIOTICS. Gianfranco BETTETINI: Communication as a Videogame. W_odzimierz KRYSI??N??SKI: Joyce, Models, and Semiotics of Passions. Hanna KSIAZEK-KONICKA: Visual Thinking in the Poetry of Julian Przybo_ and Miron Bia_oszewski. Urszula NIKLAS: The Space of Metaphor. Maria Caterina RUTA: Captivity as Event and Metaphor in Some of Cervantes' Writings. Eero TARASTI: From Aesthetics to Ethics: Semiotic Observations on the Moral Aspects of Art, Especially Music. Ladislav TONDL: Is It Justified to Consider the Semiotics of Technological Artefacts? Vilmos VOIGT: Poland, Finland and Hungary (A Tuatara's View). Thomas G. WINNER: Czech Poetism: A New View of Poetic Language. Johan WREDE: Metaphorical Imagery - Ambiguity, Explicitness and Life. Else M. BARTH: A Case Study in Empirical Logic and Semiotics. Fundamental Modes of Thought of Nazi Politician Vidkun Quisling, Based on Unpublished Drafts and Notebooks. Paul BOUISSAC: Why Do Memes Die? Wojciech KALAGA: Thresholds of Signification. Adam PODGORECKI: Do Social Sciences Evaporate?