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Existence as word-referent is the error & pharmaCON of homo sapiens as homunculi—spirit, soul & psyche
Wittgenstein, Austrian Economics, and the Logic of Action—Praxeological Investigations—WiggyDraft Roderick T. Long
The Art and Science of Logic
(Psychology: Junkie Fallacies Scapegoating)
Daniel Bonevac
Hide & Seek, the Psychology of Self-deception
(The Psyche: Zombie Self-deceptions Scapegoating)
Neel Burton
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
DSM-5 — 5th Edition
(Psychiatry: Crazy Mental Disorders Scapegoating)
American Psychiatric Association

Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counseling Pope et al.
A History of Religious Ideas Mircea Eliade

    1. From the Stone Age to the Eleusian Mysteries

    2. From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity

    3. From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms

Origins of the Sacred — The Ecstasies of Love and War Dudley Young
Spiral Dynamics Beck & Cowan
Einstein's Intuition Thad Roberts
A Perfect Universe Thad Roberts
Source Code Thad Roberts
Maps of Meaning The Architecture of Belief Jordan Peterson
Object-Oriented Ontology A New Theory of Everything Graham Harman
The Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce Harvard Univ. Press

    CP1 Principles of Philosophy

1931

    CP2 Elements of Logic

1932

    CP3 The Mathematics of Logic

1932

    CP4 The Simplest Mathematics

1933

    CP5 Pragmatism and Pragmaticism

1934

    CP6 Scientific Metaphysics

1935

    CP7 Science and Philosophy

1958

    CP8 Reviews, Correspondence and Bibliography

1958
Reality+—Virtual Worlds and the Problem of Philosophy David J. Chalmers
The Book of Why—The New Science of Cause and Effect Judea Pearl 2018
Causality — Models, Reasoning and Inference Judea Pearl 2009
Because Without Cause Marc Lange 2017
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language Umberto Eco 1984
Laws and Lawmakers Marc Lange 2009
Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman 2011
Time to Tell Ronald Green
Nothing Matters Ronald Green
Difference and Repetition Giles Deleuze
A Thousand Plateaus Deleuze, Guattari
Reasons and Persons Derek Parfit
Cosmopolis Stephen Toulmin
Quantum Manjit Kumar
The Symbolic Species Terrence W. Deacon
Incomplete Nature Terrence W. Deacon
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind Julian Jaynes
The Propertied Self: The Psychology of Economic History Brian J. McVeigh
Semiotics, The Basics Daniel Chandler
Living Without Free Will Derk Peerboom
Breakdown of Will George Ainslie
Handbook of Psychology — 2003 Wiley & Sons
Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 10 volumes — 1998 Routledge
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Logic 3rd edition:) A.C. Grayling
In Over Our Heads Robert Kegan
Immunity to Change Kegan & Lahey
The Evolving Self Robert Kegan
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Physics Marc Lange
Gödel's Theorem, An Incomplete Guide to its Use and Abuse Torkel Franzén
Gödel, Escher, Bach. An Eternal Golden Braid. Douglas Hofstadter
I am a Strange Loop Douglas Hofstadter
Against Method Paul Feyerabend
The Abuse of Casuistry — A History of Moral Reasoning Jonsen & Toulmin
The Letters of Michel de Montaigne Michel de Montaigne
My Traitor's Heart Rian Malan
Your Brain at Work David Rock
The Nonsense of Free Will, Facing Up to a False Belief Richard Oerton
The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy Louis Cozolino
Brain, Mind and the Structure of Reality Paul L. Nunez
The Master and His Emissary Iain McGilchrist
The User Illusion Tor Nørretranders
The Right Side of History Ben Shapiro
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels Alex Epstein
The Tyranny of Choice Renata Salecl
Out of Control Paul Kelly
Stiffed Susan Faludi
A History of Western Philosophy C. Stephen Evans
Knowledge in the Blood Jonathan D. Jansen
God Against the Gods Jonathan Kirch
Where Good Ideas Come From, The Natural History of Innovation Steven Johnson
The Politics of Life Itself Nikolas Rose
The Psychology of Humor Rod A. Martin
Inside Jokes — Using Humor to Reverse Engineer the Mind Hurley, Dennett & Adams
The Happiness Hypothesis, Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom Jonathan Haidt
Naked Economics, Undressing the Dismal Science Charles Wheelan
Origins of Human Communication Michael Tomasello

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Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
Author: Umberto Eco.

Pi SPL Summary Note ix Introduction 1 1. Signs 14 1.1. Crisis of a concept 14 1.2. The signs of an obstinacy 15 1.3. Intension and extension 18 1.4. Elusive solutions 18 1.5. The deconstruction of the linguistic sign 20 1.5.1. Sign vs. figura 20 1.5.2. Signs vs. sentences 21 1.5.3. The sign as difference 23 1.5.4. The predominance of the signifier 24 1.5.5. Sign vs. text 24 1.5.6. The sign as identity 25 1.6. Signs vs. words 26 1.7. The Stoics 29 1.8. Unification of the theories and the predominance of linguistics 33 1.9. The 'instructional' model 34 1.10. Strong codes and weak codes 36 1.11. Abduction and inferential nature of signs 39 1.12. The criterion of interpretability 43 1.13. Sign and subject 45 2. Dictionary vs. Encyclopedia 46 2.1. Porphyry strikes back 46 2.1.1. Is a definition an interpretation? 46 2.1.2. The idea of a dictionary 47 2.1.3. The interpretation of the markers 54 2.2 Critique of the Porphyrian tree 57 2.2.1. Aristotle on definition 57 2.2.2. The Porphyrian tree 58 2.2.3. A tree which is not a tree 61 2.2.4. The tree is entirely made up with differentiae 64 2.2.5. Differentiae as accidents and signs 67 2.3. Encyclopedias j 68 2.3.1- Some attempts: registering contexts and topics 68 2.3.2. Some attempts: registering frames and scripts 70 2.3.3- Some attempts: stereotypes and commonsense knowledge 73 2.3.4. Clusters 78 2.3.5. The encyclopedia as labyrinth 80 2.3.6. The dictionary as a tool 84 3. Metaphor 87 3.1. The metaphoric nexus 87 3.2. Traditional definitions 89 3.3. Aristotle: synecdoche and Porphyrian tree 91 3.4. Aristotle: metaphors of three terms 92 3.5. Aristotle: the proportional scheme 94 3.6. Proportion and condensation 96 3.7. Dictionary and encyclopedia 97 3.8. The cognitive function 99 3.9. The semiosic background: the system of content 103 3.9.1. The medieval encyclopedia and analogia entis 103 3.9.2. Tesauro's categorical index 105 3.9.3. Vico and the cultural conditions of invention 107 3.10. The limits of formalization 109 3.11. Componential representation and the pragmatics of the text 112 3.11.1. A model by 'cases' 112 3.11.2. Metonymy 114 3.11.3. 'Topic', frames', isotopies 117 3.11.4. Trivial metaphors and 'open' metaphors 118 3.11.5. Five rules 123 3.11.6. From metaphors to symbolic interpretation 124 3.12. Conclusions 127 4. Symbol 130 4.1. Genus and species 134 4.2. Expressions by ratio facilis 136 4.2.1. Symbols as conventional expressions 136 4.2.2. Symbols as expressions conveying an indirect meaning 136 4.3. Expressions produced by ratio difficilis 137 4.3.1. Symbols as diagrams 137 4.3.2. Symbols as tropes 139 4.3.3. The Romantic symbol as an aesthetic text 141 4.4. The symbolic mode 143 4-4.1. The Hegelian symbol 143 4.4.2. Archetypes and the Sacred 144 4.4.3. The symbolic interpretation of the Holy Scriptures 147 4.4.4. The Kabalistic drift 153 4.5. Semiotics of the symbolic mode 156 4.6. Conclusions 162 5. Code 164 5.1. The rise of a new category 164 5.1.1. A metaphor? 164 5.1.2. Dictionaries 165 5.2. The landslide effect 166 5.3. Codes and communication167 5.4. Codes as s-codes 169 5.4.1. Codes and information 169 5.4.2. Phonological code 169 5.4.3. Semantics-codes 171 5.5. Cryptography and natural languages 172 5.5.1. Codes, ciphers, cloaks 172 5.5.2. From correlation to inference 173 5.5.3. Codes and grammars 175 5.6. S-codes and signification 177 5.6.1. S-codes cannot lie 177 5.6.2. S-codes and institutional codes 179 5.7. The genetic code 182 5.8. Toward a provisional conclusion 185 6. Isotopy 189 6.1. Discursive isotopies within sentences with paradigmatic disjunction 193 6.2. Discursive isotopies within sentences with syntagmatic disjunction 194 6.3. Discursive isotopies between sentences with paradigmatic disjunction 195 6.4. Discursive isotopies between sentences with syntagmatic disjunction 195 6.5. Narrative isotopies connected with isotopic discursive disjunctions generating mutually exclusive stories 196 6.6. Narrative isotopies connected with isotopic discursive disjunctions that generate complementary stories 198 6.7. Narrative isotopies connected with discursive isotopic disjunctions that generate complementary stories in each case 199 6.8. Extensional isotopies 200 6.9. Provisional conclusions 201 7. Mirrors 202 7.1. Is the mirror image a sign? 202 7.2. The imaginary and the symbolic 203 7.3. Getting in through the Mirror 204 7.4. A phenomenology of the mirror: the mirror does not invert 204 7.5. A pragmatics of the mirror 207 7.6. The mirror as a prosthesis and a channel 208 7.7. Absolute icons 210 7.8. Mirrors as rigid designators 211 7.9. On signs 213 7.10. Why mirrors do not produce signs 216 7.11. Freaks: distorting mirrors 217 7.12. Procatoptric staging 219 7.13. Rainbows and Fata Morganas 221 7.14. Catoptric theaters 221 7.15. Mirrors that 'freeze' images 222 7.16. The experimentum crucis 226


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