The Dutch significs thinkers, besides van Eeden and Brouwer, included David van Dantzig, Herman Gorter, Jacob Israël de Haan, Henri Borel, Gerrit MannouryMannoury, a mathematician, had been Brouwer's teacher. See Mannoury's significs, or a philosophy of communal individualism, by Pieter Wisse. and Evert W. Beth, a group with varied professional affiliations.See Significs and the Origin of Analytic Philosophy, Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen.
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Erik Heijerman (1988) "Relativism and significs: Gerrit Mannoury of the foundations of mathematics". In: Essays on Significs: Papers Presented on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Victoria Lady Welby (1837-1912). H. Walter Schmitz, Victoria Welby. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1988. p.247-270.
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Significs () is a linguistic and philosophical term introduced by Victoria, Lady Welby in the 1890s. It was later adoptedAs significa. by the Dutch Significs Group (or movement) of thinkers around Frederik van Eeden, which included L. E. J. Brouwer, founder of intuitionistic logic, and further developed by Gerrit Mannoury and others.
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Internationally there were set up the International Group for the Study of Significs, followed by the International Society for Significs.Pietarinen, p.3.
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Significs, intended to be a theory of signs, was developed by Lady Welby in quite close connection with the work of Charles Sanders Peirce, her correspondent.See Semiotic and Significs: The Correspondence Between Charles S. Peirce and Victoria, Lady Welby (1977) edited by Charles S. Hardwick and J. Cook (1977), 2nd edition 2001. There is no scholarly consensus on its precise placing as an influence on later developments: on the ground now occupied by semantics, semiotics and semiology, it is closer to semiology than to the two others. While significs is a possible precursor of later semiology, it is still a matter of debate what the extent of that connection amounts to.
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David van Dantzig (September 23, 1900 – July 22, 1959) was a Dutch mathematician, well known for the construction in topology of the dyadic solenoid. He was a member of the Significs Group.
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Part of Beth's publications Evert Willem Beth (7 July 1908 - 12 April 1964) was a Dutch philosopher and logician, whose work principally concerned the foundations of mathematics. He was a member of the Significs Group.
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See "76 definitions of the sign by C.S.Peirce", collected by Robert Marty (U. of Perpignan, France). Peirce came to define representation and interpretation in terms of (triadic) determination.Peirce, A Letter to Lady Welby (1908), Semiotic and Significs, pp.
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The term "Significs" may be defined as the science of meaning or the study of significance, provided sufficient recognition is given to its practical aspect as a method of mind, one which is involved in all forms of mental activity, including that of logic. In Baldwin's Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology (1901–1905) the following definition is given: 1\. Significs implies a careful distinction between :(a) sense or signification, :(b) meaning or intention and :(c) significance or ideal worth. It will be seen that the reference of the first is mainly verbal (or rather sensal), of the second volitional, and of the third moral (e.g.
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Recent research (cf. Gordon 1991; Petrilli) has documented the influence exerted by Welby and her significs on Ogden, and yet the importance of this relationship is not recognized by him in The Meaning of Meaning (1923), where she is very quickly disposed of in a footnote.
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The most urgent reference and the most promising field for Significs lie in the direction of education. The normal child, with his inborn exploring, significating and comparing tendencies is so far the natural Significian. At once to enrich and simplify language would for him be a fascinating endeavour. Even his crudeness would often be suggestive.
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At a personal level Lady Welby did have some effect, particularly on C. K. Ogden. A mediating figure, she has not until quite recently been given great attention. :Her influence has gone largely unnoticed having been most often than not unrecognized. [...] Ogden promoted significs as a university student during the years 1910-1911, and contributed to spreading Welby's ideas.
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A variety of constructive mathematics, intuitionism is a philosophy of the foundations of mathematics. It is sometimes and rather simplistically characterized by saying that its adherents refuse to use the law of excluded middle in mathematical reasoning. Brouwer was a member of the Significs Group. It formed part of the early history of semiotics—the study of symbols—around Victoria, Lady Welby in particular.
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Welby's theories on signification in general were one of a number of approaches to the theory of language that emerged in the late 19th century and anticipated contemporary semantics, semiotics, and semiology. Welby had a direct effect on the Significs group, most of whose members were Dutch, including Gerrit Mannoury and Frederik van Eeden. Hence she indirectly influenced L. E. J. Brouwer, the founder of intuitionistic logic.
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Frederik van Eeden De kleine Johannes by Mari Andriessen, in the Frederickspark, Haarlem. Frederik Willem van Eeden (3 April 1860, Haarlem – 16 June 1932, Bussum) was a late 19th-century and early 20th-century Dutch writer and psychiatrist. He was a leading member of the Tachtigers and the Significs Group, and had top billing among the editors of De Nieuwe Gids (The New Guide) during its celebrated first few years of publication, starting in 1885.
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In the 1960s two attempts at a biography were published, and after 1970 an actual De Haan-revival brought with it a flood of publicity. Many of his publications about law and significs have been reprinted, as were his novels, and his earlier prose has been rescued from obscure magazines. Dozens of bibliophile editions honoured his poems and prose sketches. Many magazine articles and other publications about his life were published, and generated heated debates.
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The process of wondering why this was so led Welby to become interested in language, rhetoric, persuasion, and philosophy. By the late 19th century, she was publishing articles in the leading English language academic journals of the day, such as Mind and The Monist. She published her first philosophical book, What Is Meaning? Studies in the Development of Significance in 1903, following it with Significs and Language: The Articulate Form of Our Expressive and Interpretive Resources, in 1911.
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Peirce held there are exactly three basic elements in semiosis (sign action): # A sign (or representamen)Representamen ( ) was adopted (not coined) by Peirce as his technical term for the sign as covered in his theory, in case a divergence should come to light between his theoretical version and the popular senses of the word "sign". He eventually stopped using "representamen". See The Essential Peirce, 2:272–73 and Semiotic and Significs p. 193, quotes in "Representamen" at Commens Digital Companion to C.S. Peirce.
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That same year, "Significs", the name she gave to her theory of meaning, was the title of a long article she contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica. Her writings on the reality of time culminated in her article Time As Derivative (1907). What Is Meaning? was sympathetically reviewed for The Nation by the founder of American pragmatism, Charles Sanders Peirce, which led to an eight-year correspondence between them, one that has been published three times, most recently as Hardwick (2001).
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Some graphic pejoratives used significs besides the "dog" radical. Radical 123 羊, the "sheep" radical, is seen in the ancient Jie 羯 "castrated sheep; Jie people" and the modern Qiang 羌 "shepherd; Qiang people". Radical 153 豸, the "cat" or "beast" radical, appears in the ancient Mo 貊 or 貘 "panther; northeastern barbarians", who are associated with the ancient Huimo 濊貊 "Yemaek people" (in Manchuria and Korea). Radical 177 革, the "animal hide" or "leather" radical, is used in character names for two northern barbarians.
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In 1973 Georg Henrik von Wright edited Wittgenstein's Letters to C.K. Ogden with Comments on the English Translation of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, including correspondence with Ramsey.Nils-Eric Sahlin, The Philosophy of F. P. Ramsey (1990), p. 227. His most durable work is his monograph (with I. A. Richards) titled The Meaning of Meaning (1923), which went into many editions. This book, which straddled the boundaries among linguistics, literary analysis, and philosophy, drew attention to the significs of Victoria Lady Welby (of whom Ogden was a disciple) and the semiotics of Charles Sanders Peirce.
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It proved the starting point of a life-long symbiosis of pupil and master in mathematics, metamathematics and significs... He received his PhD at the University of Groningen in 1931 with a thesis entitled "" under supervision of Bartel Leendert van der Waerden.David van Dantzig at Mathematics Genealogy Project. He was appointed professor at the Delft University of Technology in 1938, and at the University of Amsterdam in 1946. Among his doctoral students were Jan Hemelrijk (1950), Johan Kemperman (1950), David Johannes Stoker (1955), and Constance van Eeden (1958).
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Over 80% of Chinese characters are phono-semantic compounds (), with a semantic component giving a broad category of meaning and a phonetic component suggesting the sound. Usually, the radical is also the semantic component, but that is not always the case. Thus, although some authors use the term "radical" for semantic components (義符 yìfú), others distinguish the latter as "determinatives" or "significs" or by some other term. There are numerous instances of characters listed under radicals which are merely artificial extractions of portions of those characters, and some of these portions are not even actual graphs with an independent existence (e.g.
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Edited by Kenneth Laine Ketner and James Edward Cook, online. 1976: The New Elements of Mathematics by Charles S. Peirce, 4 volumes in 5, included many previously unpublished Peirce manuscripts on mathematical subjects, along with Peirce's important published mathematical articles. Edited by Carolyn Eisele, back in print. 1977: Semiotic and Significs: The Correspondence between C. S. Peirce and Victoria Lady Welby (2nd edition 2001), included Peirce's entire correspondence (1903–1912) with Victoria, Lady Welby. Peirce's other published correspondence is largely limited to the 14 letters included in volume 8 of the Collected Papers, and the 20-odd pre-1890 items included so far in the Writings.
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Ferruccio Rossi-Landi commissioned Petrilli to write on Victoria Welby, for the Walter Schmitz volume Essays in Significs (1990). Sebeok thereafter invited her to examine the role played by Women in Semiotics, notably Victoria Lady Welby. What initially began as a short chapter on Welby, turned into years of archival research and a monumental book on Welby's published works and letters, namely Signifying and Understanding: Reading the Works of Victoria Welby and the Signific Movement. For this work, Petrilli consulted the Welby archives at York University, Toronto, Canada, the Lady Welby Library, University of London Library, and the British Library in London, United Kingdom.
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23, No.1, 2010 His series on The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education, published by Springer in 2011, comprises in 2017 five volumes. Broekman's interest in the ‘Law and Language’–theme has been deepened during his exploration of legal semiotics. Connections between “Significs” in the Netherlands, the UK, Germany and Switzerland in the beginning of the 20th century and “Semiotics” of Law in the second half of that century in the US, seem to have more importance for a philosophy of language connected with legal theory than ever was noticed. A volume of the series “SpringerBriefs in Law” on Roberta Kevelson that also provides a new, corrected and completed Kevelson bibliography will be published 2018.
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Deely, however, notably in Basics of Semiotics, laid down the argument that the action of signs extends even further than life, and that semiosis as an influence of the future played a role in the shaping of the physical universe prior to the advent of life, a role for which Deely coined the term physiosemiosis. Thus the argument whether the manner in which the action of signs permeates the universe includes the nonliving as well as the living stands, as it were, as determining the "final frontier" of semiotics. Deely's argument, which he first expressed at the 1989 Charles Sanders Peirce Sesquicentennial International Congress at Harvard University, if successful, would render nugatory Peirce's "sop to Cerberus."Peirce, C. S., A Letter to Lady Welby, dated 1908, Semiotic and Significs, pp.
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In origin > this practice may have derived from the animal totems or tribal emblems > typical of these peoples. This is not to deny that in later Chinese history > such graphic pejoratives fitted neatly with Han convictions of the > superiority of their own culture as compared to the uncultivated, hence > animal-like, savages and barbarians. Characters with animal hides, or other > such significs were generally not used in formal correspondence. On and off > they were banned by non-Han rulers in China culminating with the Qing. Many > were systematically altered during the script reforms of the 1950s (Dada 韃靼, > Tartar, is one of the few, to have survived). (2000: 712) Wilkinson (2000: 38) compared these "graphic pejoratives selected for aborigines and barbarians" with the "flattering characters chosen for transcribing the names of the Western powers in the nineteenth century", for instance, Meiguo 美國 "United States" can be read as "beautiful country" (Wu 2014).
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Susan Petrilli (born 3 November 1954 in Adelaide, South Australia) is an Italian semiotician, Professor of Philosophy and Theory of Languages at the University of Bari, Aldo Moro, Italy, and the Seventh Thomas A. Sebeok Fellow of the Semiotic Society of America. She is also International Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Psychology, the University of Adelaide, South Australia. Petrilli is a leading scholar in semiotics. She has been a central figure in the recent recognition by semioticians that Victoria Lady Welby acted as the foremother of modern semiotics, alongside Charles Peirce, its forefather. Petrilli's book, Signifying and Understanding: Reading the Works of Victoria Welby and the Signific Movement (2009), underscored the invaluable contribution made by Welby to semiotics, her development of the ‘significs’ theory, and the influence her theory and published works bore on contemporary semioticians such as Peirce, Ogden and Vailati. Petrilli devised, along with Augusto Ponzio, the theory of ‘semioethics’, located at the intersection of semiotics and ethics.
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