Sign Levels

One. Three Ideals of Modern Philosophy. - 1. 1 Simplicity and Certainty. - 1. 2 Compositional Semantics. - 1. 3 Simplicity and Comprehensiveness. - Two. The Methodology of Semiotic. - 2. 1 Primitiveness and Sign Levels. - 2. 2 Semiotic and Semiotics. - 2. 3 Necessary and Contingent Features. - 2. 4 The Language Archetype. - 2. 5 Grades of Involvement. - Three. Signs and Learning Theories. - 3. 1 Conditioned Reflex and Instrumental Learning. - 3. 2 Behavioral and Teleological Reductions. - 3. 3 Natsigns. - 3. 4 Awareness of Associationist Learning. - 3. 5 Proto-Natsigns and Panpsychism. - Four. Communicative Intent and Conventionality. - 4. 1 Comsigns and Signals. - 4. 2 Transactional and Iconic Aspects. - 4. 3 Regularities and Conventions. - 4. 4 Truth and Falsity. - Five. Proto-Language Sentences. - 5. 1 Subjects and Predicates. - 5. 2 Reference and Existence. - 5. 3 Feature-Placing Sentences and Identification. - 5. 4 Illocutionary Force and Avowals. - 5. 5 Addresses. - 5. 6 Frames and Semantic Fields. - Six. Natural Language Discourse. - 6. 1 Linking Expressions. - 6. 2 Reference Meaning Transfer and Fiction. - 6. 3 Inferences and Propositions. - 6. 4 Quotation and Interpretation. - 6. 5 Identity. - Seven. Specialized Discourse. - 7. 1 Writing and Institutional Specialization. - 7. 2 Discourse Frames Objects and Existence. - 7. 3 Discourse Relativity and Truth. - 7. 4 Scientific Realism. - 7. 5 Natural Kinds and Reference. - 7. 6 Customs Imperatives and Laws. - Eight. Applications to Metaphysics. - 8. 1 Philosophy and Metaphysics. - 8. 2 Identity and Functionalist Theories. - 8. 3 Beliefs and Persons. - 8. 4 Sign Level Comparisons and Metaphysics. - Notes. - References. Language: English