On Signs

Name: On Signs
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ISBN: 9780888443045

ISBN-10: 0888443048

ISBN-13: 9780888443045

Edition: 2013

Authors: Roger Bacon, Thomas S. Maloney, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Staff

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Roger Bacon's Opus maius represents an attempt to create a whole new vision of what Christian education should be, one centered on service to the Church. One chapter of this work, "On Signs," is the most comprehensive and innovative treatise on semiotics in the thirteenth century. To understand the myriad ways in which things and words signify, Bacon says, is "a thing of marvelous usefulness and beauty."

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Department of Publications
Publication date: 2/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction


On Signs



Signs and Ways of Signifying (1-15)



Linguistic Signs: Imposition and Unintended Signification (16-18)



Things That Can Be Named (19-26)



Words as Names of Themselves (27-35)



Five Modes of Equivocation (36-46)



Words Signifying Equivocally as Nouns and Adjectives (47-80)



Words Equivocating in All Five Modes of Equivocation (81-88)



Ampliation and Restriction Understood as Equivocal Reimpositions (89-99)



Secondary Signification: A New Kind of Analogical Signification (100-133)



Can a Being and a Nonbeing Be Named Univocally? (134-142)



Can a Sign Lose Its Signification? (143-153)



Vocal and Tacit Imposition (154-161)



Things and Their Mental Representations as Targets of Naming (162-169)



Redundant Expressions (170-173)



Select Relevant Texts from the Communia naturalium, Opus minus, and Opus tertium in Translation



Cross-references from the "De signis" to the Compendium studii theologiae


Emendations to the Latin Text


Bibliography


Index