Philosophy of the sign
By: Josef Simon ; translated by George Heffernan.
Series: SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Albany, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: Semantics.; Signs and symbols.
Description: In this book, Simon wields Ockham's razor like a scythe to argue historically and systematically for a coherent philosophy of the sign as sign with an unprecedented minimum of ontological and semantical commitments. Deconstructing Plato, Frege, and Husserl, he accounts for signs without positing the existence either of meanings which they express or of things to which they refer. Indeed, he shows that one cannot understand anything that is not a sign, so that one never gets to meanings without signs or things beyond signs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.