Title: Philosophy of the sign
First published: 1995
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.
Subjects: Semantics, Signs and symbols, Sémantique, Signes et symboles, Symbols, PHILOSOPHY, Movements, Post-Structuralism, Semantiek, Tekens
LC classification: B840 .S51813 1995