Theories of the Sign in Classical Antiquity

By: Giovanni Manetti

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Hardcover | 1 March 1993

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"It's the first book which revisits Greek and Latin theories of signs from the point of view of a profound classical scholarship and a paramount knowledge of contemporary semiotics debates." --Umberto Eco

Available in English for the first time is Professor Manetti's brilliant study of the origin of semiotics and sign theory. He seeks to discover the common thread that runs through the classical world from the very beginning of human thought to the fourth century A.D. In the "classical" tradition he sees a concept of the sign which is significantly different from that currently in use.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Mesopotamian Divination	p. 1
Divination in Mesopotamian culture	p. 1
Divination and writing	p. 2
The writing of the gods	p. 5
An "ante litteram" semiology	p. 6
The passage from protasis to apodosis	p. 7
The rendering explicit of the encoding rules	p. 12
Greek Divination	p. 14
Divination and knowledge	p. 14
Two types of divination	p. 19
Two models of oracular divination	p. 23
The problem of interpretation in literary uses of oracles	p. 24
The sign as challenge: divination and riddles	p. 29
Competition, dialectic, rhetoric	p. 32
Divination and persuasive interpretation	p. 32
Signs and Semiosic Processes in Greek Medicine	p. 36
Ambiguity of the prognosis	p. 37
Magical medicine and magical semiotics	p. 39
Criticism of magic and sacred semiotics	p. 40
The forms of logical argumentation and "tekmerion"	p. 41
Sight and the other senses	p. 41
Analogy and conjecture	p. 43
Analogical method and semiotic method	p. 44
Semiotic method in the methodological treatises	p. 47
The formal structure of the sign	p. 49
Ancient expressive modules	p. 50
Plato	p. 53
Signs	p. 53
Theory of language	p. 56
Theory of language in Letter VII	p. 66
Language and Signs in Aristotle	p. 70
Theory of language and theory of the sign	p. 71
The theory of the sign	p. 77
The logical mechanism	p. 80
A special type of non-linguistic sign: physiognomy	p. 84
The undermining of knowledge gained through signs	p. 87
Deduction and abduction	p. 90
Theory of Language and Semiotics in the Stoic Philosophers	p. 92
Theory of language	p. 93
The theory of the sign	p. 97
Inference and Language in Epicurus	p. 111
The truth criterion and Epicurean epistemology	p. 112
The forms of truth criterion	p. 113
The idols theory	p. 113
The theory of error and opinion	p. 115
Conjecture	p. 116
Inference from signs	p. 118
Prolepsis	p. 119
Theory of language	p. 120
The origin of language	p. 121
Epicurus and the "physis"/"nomos" tradition	p. 122
Philodemus: De Signis	p. 124
The sign relationship: "a priori" or "a posteriori"	p. 124
Elimination vs. inconceivability	p. 126
Common signs and particular signs	p. 128
Stoic criticism of Epicurean induction	p. 129
The Epicurean response in favor of induction	p. 130
Essential properties and incidental properties	p. 131
Modalities of inherentness of essential properties to their subjects	p. 135
Latin Rhetoric	p. 139
Cornificius and Rhetorica ad Herennium	p. 141
Cicero	p. 144
Quintilian	p. 151
Augustine	p. 157
Unification of the theory of signs and the theory of language	p. 157
The semiotic triangle and terminological stratification	p. 158
The relation of equivalence and the relation of implication	p. 159
Consequences of the unification of perspectives	p. 160
Language and information	p. 161
Expression and communication of the inner word	p. 162
Classifications	p. 163
Unlimited semiosis and "instructional" models	p. 167
Notes	p. 169
Bibliography	p. 179
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