Table of Contents

Sign and Value

I. On the epistemological status of semiotics. The logic of vagueness and the category of synechism.

• Stechiology, critic, and methodeutic of the vague
• Representation and reality
• Deviation and changeability
• Extension and intension
• The semiotic and dialogic nature of thinking
• The ethics of terminology
• Vagueness and ambiguity
• Vagueness and precision
• Continuity and discontinuity
• The “realistic path” (Putnam’s model)
• Critique of sign typologies
• Semiotic dynamics
• Fuzzy sets

II. Sign and sign theories. On the scientific nature of semiotics.

• Minimal conditions
• Analytic, synthetic, and generative semiotics
• Sets vs. categories
• Category (objects, morphisms, functors, duality, natural transformations of functors, diagrams, inverse limes)
• Saussure’s sign categories
• Peirce’s sign categories
• The category of sign classes
• The fuzzy category
• The sign in residual theory (Rossi-Landi)
• The sigmatic (Klaus)
• Sign logic (or Husserl’s semiotics)
• Sign, completeness, system
• Semiotic relation and semiotic function

III. Sign and fuzzy automata.

• Analogy and formalization
• Fuzzy sets, fuzzy relations
• The principle of synechism (the continuum)
• Minimizing sign automata
• Sign and the Turing Machine
• Elements of fuzzy semantics
• Fuzzy meaning
• On the perception of colors

IV. The semiotic field.

• Field theory and semiotics
• The model of curving semiotic space
• Field typologies
• Field vs. domain
• Sign processes in the semiotic field
• Scalar, vector, tensor, and spinorial fields
• Critique of Shannon’s model. Communication and signification
• Markov processes
• Sign as intermediary
• Trans-information
• Constraint, independence, freedom
• The sign as the union of relations and functions
• The category of diagrams in ?
• The T-object
• The field of signification
• Entities in the semiotic field
• The manifold of possible fields
• Fuzzy systems
• The social semiotic field.
• Perfectability
• Conversation grammar; conversation models
• The category of ?-objects
• The category of social groups
• A social-economic semiotic field
• A social-political semiotic field
• A social-legal semiotic field
• A social-ethical semiotic field
• A social-aesthetic semiotic field
• A social-scientific semiotic field
• A social-technical semiotic field
• A social-philosophical semiotic field

V. Sign and ideas.

• Time and space
• Dualistic sign concepts
• Nouns and verbs, subjects and predicates
• Learning mechanisms
• Natural and f ormal languages
• Speech signs and object
• Pre- and post-language behaviors
• Writing in the social context
• The regression of the alphabet
• Dialog
• Means and content
• Sensory perception and rational understanding
• Sign as intermediary
• The infinity of lending meaning (interpretant process)
• Denotation and connotation

VI. Meaning and value.

• The intensity of attributes
• Removal of the significant from the signifier
• Meaning endowment and meaning realization
• The axiological continuum
• The intensional nature of value
• Semiotic identification

VII. Sign and value.

• Value and quality
• Value as intermediary between subject and object
• The fuzzy nature of value
• An analogy between value and abstract automata
• Value and algebraic category theory
• The fuzzy category of value
• Iconicity
• Axioses

VIII. Fuzzy sign processes and the value continuum.

• Ideogenetic and allogenetic structures
• Sign functions
• Axiosis determines value
• Value typologies
• Precision and relevance: a principle of incompatibility
• Triadicity
• Fuzzy morphisms
• Classes of value
• Stages of evaluation
• Possible, real, necessary
• Axioses and retroaxioses
• Aesthetic value
• Russel’s perspective
• Fuzzy, vague, blurry
• Fuzzy representations
• Ordering value
• The possibilistic semantics of evaluation
• On the objectivity of identifying value
• Possibilistic interpretation
• Possibility distribution
• Authenticity

IX. The semiotic field of ideology.

• The nature of ideology
• Logic and ideology
• On the realization of ideology
• Consciousness and false consciousness
• Ideology in the semiotic field
• The automata of ideology, democracy, and dictatorship
• The category of ideology
• The equivalence of ideologies
• Ideology and value

X. Sign functioning and value determinations in concrete poetry.

• Rhetoric, poetics, dialectics
• Optimized poetics
• Linguistic and para-linguistic signs
• The functioning of signs
• Retrosemioses
• Poetics and game theory
• Concrete and abstract