Theories of the sign in classical antiquity / Giovanni Manetti ; translated by Christine Richardson.

Translation of: Le teorie del segno nell'antichità classica.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-196).

Theories of the Sign in Classical Antiquity makes available in English Professor Giovanni Manetti's brilliant study of the origin of semiotics and sign theory. His accomplishment is a full reconsideration and analysis of the semiotic practices and the theoretical considerations of the sign which were developed in the ancient world and have come down to us through literary, philosophical, medical, historical, and rhetorical traditions. He seeks to discover the common thread that runs through the classical world from the very beginning of human thought to the fourth century A.D. In the "classical" tradition he sees a concept of the sign which is significantly different from that currently in use.

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3.10. Ancient expressive modules -- 4. Plato. 4.1. Signs. 4.2. Theory of language. 4.3. Theory of language in Letter VII -- 5. Language and Signs in Aristotle. 5.1. Theory of language and theory of the sign. 5.2. The theory of the sign. 5.3. The logical mechanism. 5.4. A special type of non-linguistic sign: physiognomy. 5.5. The undermining of knowledge gained through signs. 5.6. Deduction and abduction -- 6. Theory of Language and Semiotics in the Stoic Philosophers. 6.1. Theory of language. 6.2. The theory of the sign -- 7. Inference and Language in Epicurus. 7.1. The truth criterion and Epicurean epistemology. 7.2. The forms of truth criterion. 7.3. The idols theory. 7.4. The theory of error and opinion. 7.5. Conjecture. 7.6. Inference from signs. 7.7. Prolepsis. 7.8. Theory of language. 7.9. The origin of language. 7.10. Epicurus and the "physis"/"nomos" tradition -- 8. Philodemus: De Signis. 8.1. The sign relationship: "a priori" or "a posteriori" 8.2. Elimination vs. inconceivability.

8.3. Common signs and particular signs. 8.4. Stoic criticism of Epicurean induction. 8.5. The Epicurean response in favor of induction. 8.6. Essential properties and incidental properties. 8.7. Modalities of inherentness of essential properties to their subjects -- 9. Latin Rhetoric. 9.1. Cornificius and Rhetorica ad Herennium. 9.2. Cicero. 9.3. Quintilian -- 10. Augustine. 10.0. Unification of the theory of signs and the theory of language. 10.1. The semiotic triangle and terminological stratification. 10.2. The relation of equivalence and the relation of implication. 10.3. Consequences of the unification of perspectives. 10.4. Language and information. 10.5. Expression and communication of the inner word. 10.6. Classifications. 10.7. Unlimited semiosis and "instructional" models.

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