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On the biological concept of subjective significance: A link between the semiotics of nature and the semiotics of culture

Author(s) -

Zdzisław Wąsik

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

sign systems studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.17

H-Index - 7

eISSN - 1736-7409

pISSN - 1406-4243

DOI - 10.12697/sss.2001.29.1.07

Subject(s) - semiotics , meaning (existential) , semiotics of culture , epistemology , relation (database) , value (mathematics) , natural (archaeology) , expression (computer science) , perspective (graphical) , social semiotics , function (biology) , sociology , linguistics , aesthetics , philosophy , computer science , history , artificial intelligence , programming language , evolutionary biology , biology , archaeology , database , machine learning

A logical-philosophical approach to the meaning-carriers or meaning-processes is juxtaposed with the anthropological-biological concepts of subjective significance uniting both for the semiotics of culture and the semiotics of nature. It is assumed that certain objects, which are identifiable in the universe of man and in the world surrounding all living organisms as significant from the perspective of meaning-receivers, meaning-creators and meaning-utilizers, can be determined as signs when they represent other objects, perform certain tasks or satisfy certain needs of subjects. Hence, the meaning of signifying objects may be found in the relation between the expression of a signifier and (1) a signified content, or (2) a signified function, or (3) a signified value of the cultural and natural objects subsumed by the interpreting subjects under the semiotic ones.

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