Another Approach to the Problem of Meaning

Oesterle, John A.

doi:10.1353/tho.1944.0008

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“…Similarly, I found in Poinsot another notion of sign, that of the signum ex consuetudine, which (excepting Oesterle 1944) played no role to speak of in contemporary discussions, but which seemed to have some very interesting possibilities for interpreting contemporary work in the socalled 'ape language experiments'. Again, this notion appears in Poinsot's text strictly subordinated as a systematic element to his central doctrine of the formalis ratio signi, which, as I have mentioned, continued to elude those who so far had studied the text of Poinsot.…”

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“…22. Oesterle (1944) was a sequel to an earlier study (1943) which consisted in an extended survey of the then-current (sociologically speaking) philosophical approaches to the analysis of 'meaning'. The sequel, as its title indicates, proposed, based on Poinsot's classification of signs, a radical alternative to the then-dominant approaches to 'meaning'.…”

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The semiotic of John Poinsot: Yesterday and tomorrow

Deely¹

1988

Semiotica

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The semiotic of John Poinsot: Yesterday and tomorrow

Deely¹

1988

Semiotica

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“…John Poinsot was a Spanish philosopher writing in Latin. Apart from Deely's work and a few isolated articles here and there (see Maritain 1941 andOesterle 1944), Poinsot is virtually unknown among English language philosophers. 2.…”

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The being of idea: The relationship of the physical and the nonphysical in the concept of the formal sign

Koch¹

1987

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The Realistic Conceptualism of William Ockham

Böhner

1946

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Students of medieval scholasticism are accustomed to apply the name ‘conceptualism’ to Ockham's doctrine concerning the nature and scope of universals. This seems to be an apt designation, provided that its meaning is not burdened with idealistic connotations. Unfortunately, quite a number of neo-scholastics qualify conceptualism as a doctrine which severs the bond between thought and reality, and is therefore essentially idealistic. Small wonder, then, that such a conceptualism imputed to William Ockham falls an easy prey to their violent, and to a large extent justified, attack against idealism in general. However, as far as Ockham's conceptualism is concerned, their victory in this regard is an illusion, for the simple reason that his alleged idealistic conceptualism does not exist. Hence it appears to us that Ockham's genuine conceptualism enjoys, for the time being, a relative security from neo-scholastic criticism.

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Another Approach to the Problem of Meaning

Cited by 8 publications

References 3 publications

The semiotic of John Poinsot: Yesterday and tomorrow

The semiotic of John Poinsot: Yesterday and tomorrow

The being of idea: The relationship of the physical and the nonphysical in the concept of the formal sign

The Realistic Conceptualism of William Ockham

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